The Photographic Angle

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS BURSARY - Closing date May 31st 2012

The Photographic Angle in partnership with The Royal Photographic Society is offering two 1-year bursaries to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. The bursaries will provide £3000 to assist with travel expenses, photographic equipment and other project-related costs. There are two awards available for applicants aged 16-25 and 26+ years. The application form is attached in PDF format.

Photograph by James Morgan (Young children fish over the shallow reefs around Nuakata Island, a marine protected area in Papua New Guinea.)

Please send your application form and images to:
Liz Williams, Education Manager, The Royal Photographic Society, Fenton House, 122 Wells Road, Bath, BA2 3AH.

THIS YEARS BURSARIES

TPA is working with the photography charity PhotoVoice to make bursaries available for individuals involved in their participatory photography events. TPA will be providing support to six PhotoVoice project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through our bursary scheme that kicked off in February 2012. The six successful recipients are: Nathaniel Williams, Bianca Tennant, Angelika Stolarz,  Sansha Edwin, Victoria Omobuwajo and  Venesha Cunningham. They are all very talented and engaged young people who last year took part in the PhotoVoice project: Lookout London where they explored the issues surrounding gangs and knife crime through their photographic perspectives.

To begin with the recipients have taken part in an initial 'Introduction to SLR Cameras' workshop with the participants at the community photography project Fotosynthesis, run by Ingrid Guyon, who had this to say about the participants at the end of the workshop: "It went very well. They are amazing, inspired and inspiring, dedicated and on time individuals!"

The recipients will continue with a variety of photographic workshops over the coming months with support for them to develop their personal projects - so watch this space!

TPA has awarded two bursaries to students at London College of Communication (LCC): Maja Ngom who is undertaking her BA in Photography and Matt Cetti-Roberts who is working towards his BA in Photojournalism. Read more about Maja Ngom's photography work here. In the new year we will also be awarding a one-year bursary to a student beginning an MA in Documentary photography at LCC. London College of Communication offers a diverse and comprehensive selection of photography courses, including a BA (Hons) and MA in Photography as well as a BA (Hons) in Photojournalism and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. These well-established degrees offer students direct access to the experience of talented hands-on photography tutors.

This year TPA has also awarded two bursaries to students enrolled at the University of Wales, Newport: Christopher Gallagher, who is working towards a BA in Photographic Art and Gillian Alexandra Kalisky who is studying an MFA in Documentary Photography, Read more about Gillian's photography in an interview with TPA last month. The University of Wales, Newport has been a leader in delivering pioneering photographic higher-education courses in Europe. Newport offers undergraduate degrees in Documentary Photography, Photographic Art and Photography for Fashion and Advertising, along with a developing portfolio of postgraduate study including MA/MFA in Documentary Photography, M.Phil and PhD. Established in 2000, Newport's European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR) provides a focus for high quality research in photography that builds on both its institutional heritage and internationally renowned scholarship.

Christine Donnier-Valentin was awarded a TPA student bursary to support her masters in photography at Central Saint Martins (CSM) for the academic year 2011-2012. CSM offers a unique Masters degree in Photography, creating challenging and provocative work across traditional and new technologies within photography, printmaking, moving image, communication and networking media. The Synergy in their postgraduate art department, between Fine art, science, exhibition, theory and philosophy helps create a dynamic context for exploring practices and issues within contemporary culture.

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