
RPS Bursary funding supports a wide range of project costs, including research, travel, equipment, and publication. In addition, both bursaries offer the unique opportunity to have the finished work published by the award‑winning RPS Journal team and The Guardian. Discover their available bursaries below: |
| | In partnership with The Guardian
Closing Soon 14 July – £2000 |
| | An annual £2000 bursary to support a photographer with a compelling proposal for a photographic essay addressing an overseas social documentary issue. We are seeking applicants with a strong creative vision and a clear plan for how their images will be used to tell impactful, visually engaging stories. |
| | | In partnership with the McCabe Family and The Guardian
Closing 3 August – £3000 |
| | This bursary will provide £3000 to a photographer aged 30 years or under to deliver a photography project responding to the theme of ‘Sporting Endeavour’. This theme can be interpreted as widely as the applicant wishes, but the general approach should be editorial and suitable for publication. |
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Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.