The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund supports emerging and early-career sports photographers!

  
**APPLICATIONS OPEN March 15, 2024.**

**7 photographers will each receive:**

* A $5,000 grant, to be spent on career development
* Expenses-paid trip to the 2024 DPPF Sports Photography Gathering (scheduled for September 2024; see details below.)

  
In addition to the main grants program, the DPPF also awards Development Grants supporting sports photographers of great potential whose current portfolio quality may be affected by severe economic and/or geographic or cultural limitations. After the seven winners of the $5,000 grants are chosen, the panel will select deserving candidates from the remaining pool of applicants as recipients of Development Grants.

  
**OPTIONAL MENTORSHIPS**

Up to 3 of the 7 grant winners will be chosen to receive a year-long mentorship opportunity with leading industry professionals on the DPPF Advisory Board.

  
* Mentorship recipients will be chosen based on current profiles and mentorship essay.
* Applying for a mentorship is not required in order to compete for a DPPF grant.

  
**SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY GATHERING**

All grant winners receive an expenses-paid trip to the next DPPF Sports Photography Gathering. This event will be led by top working professionals in the business and will include:

  
* Multiple individual portfolio feedback sessions
* Small and large group sessions on issues critical to the world of sports photojournalism

  
The Gathering is not a workshop. It is designed to provide career advice, access to leading professionals, and individual feedback on the attendees’ body of work. This dynamic informal gathering will give unprecedented access to high-level working professionals in the business. It will honor Doug Pensinger’s generosity of spirit, strong work ethic, sense of camaraderie, and spirited approach to life and work.

International applicants should be aware that the DPPF is not able to provide support for procuring a visa for attendance at the Gathering.

  

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