Los Angeles, CA—The Lucie Foundation announced that its 2021 Lucie Foundation Scholarship program opened on April 30, 2021. The program encompasses four categories of cash grants. Moreover, the deadline for applications is August 1, 2021.
“The Lucie Foundation is proud to support emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from fine art to documentary and photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support emerging photographers producing work that is at once gripping and original,” the foundation announced.
The Lucie Foundation offers four cash grants to support the work of emerging as well as established photographers.
2021 Lucie Foundation Scholarship Categories 
Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship
The Lucie Foundation is offering this scholarship in support of fine art photographers. This scholarship is open to both emerging as well as established artists. Recipients will receive a $3,000 grant.
Emerging Artist Scholarship
This scholarship is open to all genres of photographic work. It will go to an individual to create or continue work on a specific dynamic project. Furthermore, sponsored by Sony, this scholarship provides a $1,500 grant along with a Sony Alpha 7c and 28–60mm lens kit.
Photo Taken Emerging Scholarship
Furthermore, this scholarship will be given to an individual to create or continue a project focused on telling an existing story through a documentary or photojournalism approach. It offers a $1,000 grant.
Photo Made Emerging Scholarship
In addition, this scholarship is granted to an individual to create or continue a project focused on creating a story through a conceptual fine art approach. Again, it provides a $1,000 grant.
To apply to any of the four categories, visit here.
One key fact that this story doesn’t provide is that you have to pay to apply for one of these scholarships – from $25 down to $10 for the smaller value scholarships. This is not so much an altruistic initiative from the tax-exempt Lucie Foundation, but a money-making initiative posing as something nobler.