Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award 2025

REBECCA VASSIE MEMORIAL AWARD

Deadline: 31st March 2025 5PM

Who can apply: An early-to-mid-career photographer in or from the UK

The award: £2,000 to undertake a narrative photography project with a social or political context

How to apply: Full submission information at www.rebeccavassietrust.org

Judges include: Caroline Hunter (Guardian), Emma Lynch (picture editor, BBC News Online) and Jennifer Thatcher (critic and curator).

The award was created in memory of Rebecca Vassie, a British photographer and photojournalist who died suddenly, aged 30, while on assignment in Uganda in March 2015.

Previous awards have been won by projects exploring an Islamic community in Israel, health and housing in Glasgow, therapy for survivors of the Rwandan genocide and defying stereotypes of what it is to be older.

The Trust offers shortlisted candidates additional support-in-kind such as networking opportunities.

For more information visit https://rebeccavassietrust.org/