Call for applications for the 38th Annual
Light Work Grant in Photography announced

A brochure announcing the 2012 Light Work Grant will be mailed shortly. Download the form now. Applications can be mailed or delivered to Light Work starting Tuesday, January 17.

Applicants are required to submit 10 examples of their work along with a short application form. Three judges from outside the grant area select the recipients based on the merits of their work. Light Work interprets the medium of photography in broad terms and encourages the submission of work produced with new and traditional technologies.


Light Work Grants were established in 1975 to encourage new work and scholarship in Central New York. Each year Light Work awards three grants of $2,000 to photographers, critics, or photo historians. The work of the grant recipients is exhibited at Light Work and reproduced in our publication Contact Sheet.

Applications are accepted January 15 through March 31 of each year. Applicants must reside in one of the following Central New York Counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Tioga, or Tompkins.

Congratulations to Neil Chowdhury, Danielle Mericle,
and Ahndraya Parlato — the 2011 Grant recipients.

Grant History & Previous Recipients