The James Alan Cox Foundation Student Photography Scholarship

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The James Alan Cox Foundation Student Photography Scholarship

Focus of work and entries: PHOTOJOURNALISM.

Students will be given scholarships if their work “tells a story.” This is a rather broad topic that could involve a range of approaches and subject matter (breaking news, sporting events, etc.)

Please bear in mind that we are NOT seeking for “art” photography while submitting still pictures.

Suggestions on subject: Despite our recent global COVID pandemic, many people still have stories of their experiences.

For example, your video submissions or photos can cite stories from your community or school: scenes of graduation in military service, research, police responses to emergencies.

Whichever video you choose to use must be relevant, objective, and visually interesting.

In terms of still photography, you may submit a single image that can be used alone or a collection of shots that are all tied to the same subject or narrative.

Again, photojournalism is what we’re after. Please don’t spoil your chances of getting considered by uploading still photos of flowers, glamour shots, or kittens, no matter how cute they may be, as we are asking you to accomplish a lot with this application, like write an essay and send us your transcript and letters of recommendation.

Applications for scholarships must be filed between July 15, 2022, and midnight on November 15, 2022.

Early to mid-December will see the announcement and distribution of scholarships.

Type of Awards:

  • Five (5) $2,500 scholarships will be awarded to five (5) college or technical school students, payable to their school. Four awards will be for video work while one will be for still photography.
  • One (1) $2,500 scholarship will be awarded to one (1) graduate student, payable to their school, for video work.
  • Five (5) Digital SLR Cameras will be awarded to five (5) high school students. (High school applicants should only submit still photographs. The video awards are for college and graduate students only.)

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Application Requirements and Forms:

Please click on the highlighted lines below to access the various forms. (You may also use this as a checklist for completing your application.)

PLEASE NOTE:  The applicant must be a United States citizen and the applicant’s school must be in the United States. (U.S. citizens attending U.S. government schools outside of the U.S. may apply.)

YOU MUST COMPLETE AND SUBMIT EACH FORM TO BE ELIGIBLE.

High school students applying for these scholarships must have completed one year at an accredited high school (student must therefore be a sophomore or older) and should have taken at least one photography or related art class.

College or technical school students applying for these scholarships must have completed one year at a accredited college, university or professional school (student must therefore be a sophomore or older),
and have taken courses in photography or photojournalism.

Graduate students applying for a scholarship should be enrolled in a journalism or photojournalism program.

High school, college and graduate students should have at least one semester remaining at time of award.

Important Notes:

  • All submissions must be via the internet. We will not accept applications by mail.
  • Label all files that will be submitted/e-mailed with the applicant’s name.
  • The applicant must be a United States citizen.
  • The applicant’s school must be in the United States. (U.S. citizens attending U.S. government schools outside of the US may apply.)
  • The scholarship award must be used at the beginning of the next semester.
    Otherwise it will be forfeited and given to an alternate.
  • A student may only receive one James Alan Cox Foundation scholarship in a given year.
  • Note: Parental approval is required for students under 18. Please see accompanying form.

Digital Entry Rules: Please enter only 5 (five) images. Each image should be jpeg file format with a maximum of 2500 pixels on the longer side and 4 MB file size. Images should be at monitor resolution.

Photos submitted must be an honest representation of what happened in front of the camera during exposure.

You may, if needed, post-process the images electronically — but only in accordance with good practice.

This may include cropping, color correction, etc. Post-processing, however, must preserve the image’s original expression.

Video Entry Rules: Please enter only two (2) videos. Videos should be no more than 20 MB file size with a maximum duration of 3 minutes each. Videos may be in these formats: .mpg, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .mpeg, .mp4, .divx.
Mac users: please make sure all file names have the proper file extensions.

THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE.

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