About Us

Who are we?

Focus For Humanity is a US based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional photographers throughout the world to focus their work on telling cultural and humanitarian stories. Through a series of grants and awards it helps these photographers to perfect their craft by funding not only fully expensed photographic assignments to work with underfunded NGOs, but also grants to help people become full-time photographers or to improve their craft by subsidizing attendance on photographic workshops and providing mentoring schemes with leading humanitarian and travel photographers.

Our Mission

Our mission it to provide financial support, resources and training for professional and amateur photographers who capture these stories of our shared humanity and to help fund their work with NGOs.

The IGVP ethical Code

The International Guild of Visual Peacemakers have established an ethical code by which all humanitarian and travel photographers are encouraged to work. As a Foundation we support this code and the work of the IGVP, and we aspire that all our members, grant re and award recipients, supporters and advocates also subscribe to this code. You can find out more about the IGVP community and their work at their website.