Applications for the Leica Women Foto Project in the USA in 2023 are currently open.
The Leica Women Foto Project serves to empower the female perspective and its impact on today’s visual stories. It believes the shape of a story is reactive to the storyteller’s perspective, developing a narrative that too often is reflective of individual truths. The Project encourages diversity and inclusion in visual storytelling to amplify voices typically underrepresented in photography, discovering the breadth of shapes formed by a single story. Conceived in 2019, the initiative has evolved to offer cash awards, mentorship, business opportunities, and Leica equipment to serve the female perspective in the world of photography.
Worth of Award
This year, the Award expands to residents of the US, UK, Mexico, and Canada (excluding Québec), where one applicant from each region will be awarded a Leica SL2-S camera set and USD 10,000.
Eligibility
The Contest is open only to individuals legally residing in the fifty (50) United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, or Canada (excluding residents of the province of Québec).
In each case, candidates are at least twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of entry in the Contest.
(A) Employees, officers, managers, and directors of Sponsor or its
- parents,
- subsidiaries,
- affiliates,
- representatives,
- consultants,
- contractors,
- vendors,
- freelancers,
- legal counsel,
- advertising,
- public relations,
- promotional,
- fulfillment, and
- marketing agencies,
- website providers,
- webmasters, (collectively, the “Contest Entities”),
(B) members of their immediate families (spouses, parents, siblings, and children, regardless of where they live), and
(C) those living in the same household as a Contest Entity are not eligible to enter or win.
Subject to (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence, photographers who teach workshops at the Leica Akademie but are NOT employed by Leica are eligible.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, individuals who have a formal affiliation or partnership with enterprises that compete with Sponsor and manufacture or market cameras, sport optic products, lenses, or accessories for the aforementioned products, or make such performances available to such enterprises, are not eligible to enter or win.
How to Apply
Applicants are requested to submit a single photo essay made with any make or model camera that bears witness to humanity as expressed through the female perspective.
During the Contest Period, eligible persons may enter the Contest by uploading a series of ten (10) photographs.
Deadline: The close of the contest is November 7.
Click here for more details and to apply
Submit your photographs to https://www.leicawomenfotoproject.com/