Deadline: 1 May 2025
Open to: Emerging and professional photographers worldwide who are passionate about sports photography. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to capturing the essence of sports through their work.
Benefits: The grant provides financial support to photographers to pursue their projects. The amount varies depending on the project and need, but it typically covers equipment, travel, and other project-related expenses.
DESCRIPTION
The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund Grants 2025 is an initiative designed to support emerging and professional photographers who specialize in sports photography. Established in memory of Doug Pensinger, a renowned sports photographer, the fund aims to empower photographers to capture the passion, intensity, and emotion of sports through their lenses. The grant provides financial assistance to help photographers pursue their projects, whether it’s covering a major sporting event, documenting a unique sports story, or developing a personal photography project.
Recipients of the grant will not only receive financial support but also gain recognition for their work. The fund seeks to foster creativity and innovation in sports photography, helping photographers tell compelling stories through their images.
ELIGIBILITY
- The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund supports emerging and early-career sports photographers. Photographers with more than 3 years cumulative paid professional sports photography experience are considered beyond the scope of the DPPF’s programs.
- DPPF programs accept international applicants, but the DPPF is unable to award grants to photographers from countries for which the U.S. has active sanctions in place.
- Previous DPPF grant recipients are not eligible to apply.
BENEFITS
- 7 photographers will be chosen to receive $5,000 grants to be spent on career development. They will also receive an expenses-paid trip to the 2026 DPPF Sports Photography Gathering.
- Additional Opportunities (essays required, see below)
- Up to 3 of those seven grant recipients will be chosen to receive a year-long mentorship with leading industry professionals on the DPPF Advisory Board.
- Up to 3 additional applications may be chosen for Development Grants of $2,500.
HOW TO APPLY?
- The application will be live on the Picter platform beginning on March 15.
- Submissions will be accepted until 11:59pm PDT on May 1, 2025. (Deadline shown on the computer used to submit your application will show the equivalent of that deadline in your local time zone.)
- For more details or queries regarding the grant, email: admin@dppfund.org
For further information, please visit the official website.
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