Applications are now open for the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award.

The Memorial Award is run by the recently established Rebecca Vassie Trust – set up in memory of Rebecca Vassie, a promising photographer and photojournalist, who died suddenly last year while on assignment in Uganda. 

The prize is a £1,200 bursary, plus printing, exhibition and mentorship, for an emerging (early-mid career) photographer who is either working in the UK, or a British national working abroad, to complete a narrative photography project with a strong social or political context. 

Judges include Karen McQuaid, curator at the Photographers’ Gallery; Matthew Tucker, UK Picture Editor at BuzzFeed; and Bette Lynch, Director of Photography, news, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Getty Images. 

Metro Imaging, our print partner, will provide premier printing services as well as a portfolio review with creative director Prof. Steve Macleod.

Applicants are asked to set out a compelling vision for a photography project which this award would allow them to complete, to exhibition-readiness, by March 2017. The closing date for submissions is Friday 7 October, 2016, 5pm BST. The submission guidelines can be found via our webiste: https://rebeccavassietrust.org/award/

* Please note that you must be aged over 18 years and class yourself as an ‘emerging photographer’, which usually means you are an early-mid career professional photographer but are not yet earning a full living from photography. You must either (i) have a recognised professional qualification in photography (e.g. university degree) and / or (ii) have undertaken at least two paid commissions. This award is not open to current students, and unlikely to apply to 2016 graduates.