Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs Announce the Creator Labs Photo Fund
Through a free open call, the new fund provides financial support to artists in the wake of COVID-19.
The Creator Labs Photo Fund is open through July 16, 2021
Today, Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture announce the launch of the Creator Labs Photo Fund—a new initiative providing financial support to artists in the wake of COVID-19.
The fund, made possible by Google Devices and Services in partnership with Aperture, will be distributed through a national open call, starting July 1 and running through July 16, 2021. Submissions will be free and open to any photographer or lens-based artist living in the United States, and twenty selected artists will be awarded a prize of $5,000 each.
With artists and creatives heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it has never been more important and vital to provide support for this community.
Aperture serves as an essential platform for artists, fostering critical dialogue within the photographic community — in print, in person, and online. “We are thrilled to partner with Google on the Creator Labs Photo Fund,” says Aperture’s creative director, Lesley A. Martin, “and we hope that together we can contribute to sustaining the future of photography. We all communicate with images today: we want to encourage photographers to keep working toward a more rigorous, more expansive range of expressions to the field.”
To apply to the Creator Labs Photo Fund, all entrants will need to submit 8 to 10 images from one body of work, showing a commitment to making a cohesive and compelling series or project. The project does not need to be finished. Entrants will not be evaluated on the basis of prior experience, publications, or exhibition history, but instead on the strength and originality of their visions.
Submit now to the the Creator Labs Photo Fund, open from July 1–July 16, 2021.
