Invest in Your Sports Photography Career: The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund. The DPPF is dedicated to supporting emerging talent in sports photography. Photographers with over three years of paid professional experience are beyond the scope of our programs. We encourage international applications, with the caveat that we cannot award grants to those from countries with active U.S. sanctions.
Apply via the Picter platform and include:
Resume
Professional Bio:
Portfolio: 20 sports photography images (action and portrait both accepted)
Optional Mentorship Essay
Up to three Primary Grant winners will be chosen to receive a year-long mentorship.
Mentorship applicants are required to answer the following question: How would you benefit from a mentorship with members of the DPPF’s Advisory Board?
Optional Development Grant Essay
After the Primary Grants of $5,000 are awarded, up to three of the remaining applicants will be chosen to receive a Development Grant of $2,500.
DPPF Development Grants support sports photographers whose portfolios demonstrate talent and technical skills while their biographies and essays reflect significant economic, geographic and/or cultural challenges that have impacted their ability to advance their careers.
Development Grant applicants are required to answer the following question: How have significant economic, geographic and/or cultural challenges impacted your ability to advance your photography career? (1500-character maximum)
7 photographers will be chosen to receive $5,000 grants to be spent on career development. They will also receive an expenses-paid trip to the 2026 DPPF Sports Photography Gathering.
Up to 3 of those seven grant recipients will be chosen to receive a year-long mentorship with leading industry professionals on the DPPF Advisory Board.
Up to 3 additional applications may be chosen for Development Grants of $2,500.
Applicants warrant that they are the authors and owners of the copyright to all images submitted, that their submissions are free from third-party claims, and that they do not infringe upon privacy rights or copyright of any other person.
Applicants will retain all copyright and ownership of their images.
Winners agree to allow the DPPF to use their names, likenesses, and their submitted images, free of charge, for the purposes of promoting its nonprofit programs.
Mentorship participants agree to allow the DPPF to use a selection of the images resulting from their mentorship to promote the future nonprofit activities of the Fund.
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