Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5
Photoworks · Brighton, United Kingdom
Two £15,000 awards (packages worth £32,000 each) for UK-based artists one to ten years into a photographic practice, run by Photoworks with Jerwood support. The open call for the fifth edition had not launched at the time of checking.
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Who can enter
- Location
- United Kingdom (by country of residence)
- Age
- No age limit
- Career stage
- Emerging
- Mediums
- Photography
- Submission
- Online submission
- Also
- UK-based artists one to ten years into their practice. No age limit or educational requirement.
About
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a research and development award for artists working with photography. The fifth edition offers two awards for UK-based artists between one and ten years into their practice, with no age or educational requirement, and particularly encourages new approaches to photography.
Each award comprises a £10,000 artist fee, a £5,000 production budget and access to a £5,000 printing budget from Spectrum Photographic, plus mentoring and exhibition support; the full package is valued at £32,000.
The previous round closed on 10 July 2024. Photoworks asks artists to join its mailing list to hear when the Awards 5 open call launches.
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