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ENTRIES CLOSE 15 JULY 2024

The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle is offering a 1-year bursary to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Applications are invited from anyone living or studying in the United Kingdom with a talent for taking photographs and an interest in the environmental concerns that we face today.

The bursary will provide £4000 to assist with travel expenses, photographic equipment and other project-related costs. We are looking for a creative interpretation of the subject as well as documentary and editorial photography.

ENTRIES CLOSE 15 JULY 2024

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This bursary is supported by The Photographic Angle and Metro Imaging

The Photographic Angle (TPA) is a charitable organisation set up to promote the education of the public in the art and science of photography.

On completion of the projects, each recipient will also have the opportunity to have your portfolio printed by Metro Imaging and receive remote mentoring from its director Steve Macleod.

Nicholas Holt - Recipient 2023/24

Nicholas Holt is a photographer and creative director. His work focuses on our relationship with the natural world. His projects encompass a variety of physical and conceptual terrain, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing environment.

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Tessa Bunney - Recipient 2022/23

“Over the years, I’ve worked with lots of farmers, small food producers, and people that have a connection to the landscape, often through food,”

A project with foragers led her to one involving shrimpers and traditional fishermen in Morecambe Bay. “I asked one of them if I could photograph him over a year and see the different types of fishing he did. In the end it was two years. I met other fishermen in that village and around the coast, and it all started there.”

Joanna Vestey - Recipient 2021/22

"Foodtopia looks at the utopian future of our food. In this series of photographs I explore what it might look like to provide healthy, sustainable food for everyone without harming the environment while simultaneously contributing to the health of the planet.

Joanna Vestey is a photographic artist working with photography and sound. Her work explores traces of time, stewardship and the presentation of information.

Ngadi Smart - Recipient 2020/21

Ngadi Smart was the 2020/21 Environmental Bursary reciepient. She is a Sierra Leonean Visual Artist and Designer based between London, U.K and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

In her Photography, her focus is documenting cultures, social/environmental issues and themes on identity. Recently, she has also been interested in documenting Black sensuality and sexuality from an African point of view. She aims to show as many representations of African people, and what it means to be African as she can.

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Catherine Hyland - Recipient 2019/20

The Environmental bursary will enable Catherine Hyland to travel to the Himalayas in order to make a new photographic series and a short film about the water crisis there and how an ingenious idea to build artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures could transform an arid landscape into an oasis.

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Harry Borden - Over 30s Recipient 2018

Harry Borden was the over-30 bursary recipient. Harry collaborated with the writer Mireille Thornton, to produce Four Hugs Wide and Into the Trees. The work explores our relationship with the arboreal through stories of people who love, live and work with trees and woodland across Great Britain. The project considers a world where people acknowledge our species as part of a larger ecosystem and live their lives accordingly.

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TPA/RPS ENVIRONMENTAL BURSARY