NPAC announcing inaugural Community Visual Storytelling Grant
Dear Members,
The News Photographers Association of Canada/Association des photographes de presse du Canada is evolving to serve you better by reflecting the industry’s current state.
July 1 marks NPAC’s inaugural Community Visual Storytelling (CVS) grant launch, with full details provided during the Spring Annual General Meeting.
The CVS grant will be open to any NPAC photojournalist in good standing as of Jan. 1, 2024, through to the end of the project. CVS will provide financial assistance to the successful applicant to complete a community-based project that moves the public awareness needle.
Building on this foundation of grant-based support, NPAC will continue to develop grants with a local, national, and international lens in the coming months and years to support members better.
To be successful, NPAC requires membership participation on the Grant Development Steering Committee.
There is also a need for volunteers on the NPOY Committee as we continue to assess and review our national competition’s categories, rules, and regulations.
Members will notice slight changes in the upcoming National Pictures of the Year categories, which open on Jan. 15 and close on Feb. 15, 2023. Multimedia team and single entries will now be entered into one combined multimedia category. We eliminated the personality category and reduced the Student Photographer of the Year prize money to $500 in line with all other categories.
Sincerely,
Diana Martin
NPAC President
Marcus Yam is a roving Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and staff photographer. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he left a career in aerospace engineering to become a photographer. His goal: to take viewers to the frontlines of conflict, struggle and intimacy. His approach is deeply rooted in curiosity, dignity and persistence. In 2022, Yam won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for images documenting the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country.
B. D. Colen’s life as both a photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer began 60 years ago this summer when he covered the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom for a weekly newspaper in his native Connecticut. Along the way, Colen spent about 25 years in various reporting and editing, roles at The Washington Post, and Newsday, worked for a similar amount of time in communications for Harvard University and several medical institutions in Boston. His photographic work has appeared in media ranging from The Christian Science Monitor, to The Boston Globe, from CNN to Boston Magazine, and from institutional publications to The New England Journal of Medicine.
Hilary Swift is a freelance photojournalist, writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Times. Based out of New York City, Swift is interested in documenting social issues, breaking news, and politics.
