The Foundation will consider proposals from writers in any genre style or media that can be classified as Photography, with regards to still images. Proposals for time-based work will not be accepted for this year's fellowship. 

Note that fellowship funds are intended mainly to support time for the creation of the work; they do not underwrite costs of equipment, exhibitions, performances, or publication.

Application proposals should include brief descriptions methodology, timeframe, and use of funding as well as the intended impact your project may have within the field of study.

In accordance with the fellowship program's overall goal of supporting early mid-career artists, applicants should have a record of artistic accomplishment and demonstrate a promising program of creative development
using photography as a mode of artistic expression and experimentation.  

Note that the fellowship funds are intended mainly to support time for artistic work; they do not underwrite publication, exhibition, advertising, or promotional costs. 

Howard Foundation Fellowships are awarded through a multi-stage review process that begins with successive rounds of screening by expert panels assembled for each year's fields.  Proposals advance through the process based on the collective determination of panelists.  To ensure candid assessment, the identities of reviewers are not public. The proposals that panelists collectively judge to be the strongest under the Foundation's award criteria are forwarded to the Foundation's multi-disciplinary Board of Administration, which makes the final selection. 

The Howard Foundation is committed to supporting artists and scholars of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and does not discriminate based on the gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or ability/disability of artists, and welcomes work whose content reflects the lived experiences of the applicants.