Wits Journalism Africa–China Photo Exhibition 2018 (US$1,000 grant & fully funded trip to Johannesburg,South Africa)

The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP) at Wits Journalism is inviting all journalists, media practitioners and photographers to submit images for an Africa-China Photo Exhibition that will collect images from across Africa that best encapsulate applicants’ interpretation of “Africa–China”.

The Project will include selected images in an Africa-China Photo Exhibition and make them publicly available under a Creative Commons license, giving full credit to the image owners at all times. The Project will also select the best two images in the exhibition and give the following awards:

• First place: US$1,000 grant to write an accompanying story of the image as well as a fully paid trip to the Project’s Africa-China Journalists Forum in Johannesburg on 1 November 2018, along with the option to do one of the opening speaking slots

Requirements

• Submissions are open to all journalists, media practitioners and photographers
• Applicants must have taken the images themselves
• Images must be taken in Africa
• Each applicant can submit a maximum of three images, including the preferred name to be attributed
• Images must be submitted in high-res quality in freely accessible formats, preferably JPEG or PNG

How to apply

Submissions must be sent in an email with the title Submission: Africa-China Photo Exhibition to [email protected] by no later than 3 August 2018, and should contain the following:

• Applicant CV
• Maximum of three image submissions
• A short description/paragraph to explain each image submission

For any queries please contact the Project team at [email protected].

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Wits Journalism Africa–China Photo Exhibition 2018