Mentoring

Shooting for Peace?

One of our most important collaborations is our close-tie up with the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers.
Many of the Guild act as our advisors, and we have jointly established a unique mentoring programme to help many of you become better visual story tellers and to find your own unique way to contribute to helping humanity through your photographs.

NEXT MENTORING GRANT

The first 2012 Mentoring Grant will be open for online applications on 1 April 2012. Entries remain open for 4 weeks until 1 May and the winner is announced by 1 June. Get ahead of the game, and register now

First Mentor

For a chance to win one-to-one mentoring with Gavin Gough, please apply here.

	WHAT IS MENTORING AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT We develop best when we are nurtured and guided by someone who has already experienced much of what we are now experiencing. Mentoring allows that expertise and guidance to be shared as well as someone to help challenge your thinking and allow you to share your concerns in a confidential manner. When done right, mentoring is a phenomenally powerful tool to help people get the best out of their potential. For photographers - many of whom are self-employed - there is no corporate environment to provide that career advice, personal objective setting or review process. To develop as Photographers as well as visual storytellers we need to be challenged. What better way than by a leading photographer whose work you admire, giving you some of those little nuggets of insight, a little bit of the secret sauce if you like, to help you on your way?
	HOW DOES THE SCHEME WORK AND WHO ARE THE MENTORS The scheme is run in collaboration with the Advisory Board. Mentoring as a scheme is very simple. The grant buys up to 8 hours of access to these leading photographers for career guidance, portfolio reviews, advice and support. They will discuss with you what options are available and how many hours each of those take. Then you select what you want, agree with the mentor when you are going to chat and that's it. Simple!. This can be via Skype, email, facebook - whatever works for you and the mentor.
	WHO IS ELLIGIBLE The simple answer is anyone. Anyone may apply for these valuable grants
	HOW MANY MENTORING GRANTS ARE THERE AND HOW DO I APPLY We aim to run one mentoring grant a quarter. With up to two scholarships per annum as well that could make up to 6 opportunities to win a mentoring grant per annum. Application for the grants and the scholarships is through this website. You submit some photos for review, then a panel made up of the Advisory Board decides whom is the lucky grant recipient. All the details about how to apply, what the submission deadlines are, how the competitions are judged and announced can all be found in our Grants and Awards section. Good luck!