Awards and Grants

Explore CENTER’s Awards and Grants available to photographers and lens-based artists around the world. Applications open in January of each year. Thank you to everyone who shared their work with one or multiple awards and grants opportunities to have your work reviewed by our independent jurors in February 2024. Each year brings new exposure and career advancement package experiences. The 2025 Calls for Entry announcements are forthcoming, please check back for updates.

Recipients in each category are provided opportunities for public exhibitions, featured publications, educational presentations, and expositions of the work in conjunction with the Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium.

We are adding to our database and archive of lens-based work from the last 30 years and invite you to contribute. All applicant work will remain in the CENTER archive, regardless of award status.

Winners Gallery

A Closer Look

Learn more about the 2024 Award and Grant jurors and winners below.

Provides financial support and career advancement to a project near completion.
JUROR • Jehan Jillani – Visuals Editor, The Atlantic
WINNER • Austin Bryant - Where They Still Remain
Provides financial support and career advancement to a work-in-progress.
JUROR • Gregory Harris – High Museum of Art, Atlanta
WINNER • Sara Abbaspour - Transitional Realms
Provides financial support and career advancement to a female or LGBTQIA2S+ photographer over 40.
JUROR • Eve Schillo – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
WINNER • Anna Reed • Merging Dimensions
Honors a high school, college, or postgraduate photographic teacher’s dedication and commitment to their students and field.
JUROR • Alanna Styer - Documentary Artist, Educator, Activist, Education Research Fellow, Photographer’s Green Book, & Program Manager of Media Arts Education & Mentoring, Venice Arts Los Angeles | 2023 Winner
WINNER • Kathleen Sanker - Artist, Photographer, and Professor of Art, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
Providing $2,500 annually to a Review Santa Fe invitee, recognizing the artist who, by their hand, works to make unique objects of art. The aim is to encourage the preservation of historical photographic processes, as well as works whose process may include collage, emulsion transfer, painting, sewing, and the use of sculpture and ceramics.
Review Santa Fe reviewers will vote on works that have been juried into Review Santa Fe for the award.
WINNER: Nancy E. Rivera for the series No Present To Remember
Recognizes an outstanding storyteller using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects.
JUROR • David Barreda – National Geographic
WINNER • Robert Pluma - Hidden Histories of San Antonio
Recognizes outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Socially Engaged, and Environmental.
PERSONAL AWARD JUROR • Kristen Gresh, Ph.D - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
WINNER • Matthew Finley - An Impossibly Normal Life

SOCIALLY ENGAGED AWARD JUROR • Noelle Flores Théard - The New Yorker
WINNER • Sofie Hecht - Downwind
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD JUROR • Sabine Meyer – National Audubon Society
WINNER • John Trotter - No Agua, No Vida: The Human Alteration of the Colorado River