2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund

Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture are pleased to launch the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund—an initiative providing financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers.

Overview

Started in 2021, this third season of the Creator Labs Photo Fund will provide grants to thirty artists for new work created in the past three years.

Submissions are free and open to any photographer or lens-based artist living in the United States. Thirty selected artists will each be awarded a prize of $6,000 and a Pixel 8a device, and will be featured on aperture.org and across Aperture’s social-media channels.

Practical Info

To apply to the Creator Labs Photo Fund, all entrants will need to submit 8 to 10 images from one body of work, showing a commitment to making a cohesive and compelling series or project. The project does not need to be finished in order to enter. Entrants will not be evaluated on the basis of prior experience, publications, or exhibition history, but instead on the strength and originality of their vision.

About Creator Labs and Aperture

Creator Labs supports artists in the production of important personal work. A partnership between Google & SN37, participating photographers and filmmakers are selected for their ability to author distinct, concentrated visual narratives with an authentic point of view. All work has been created using Google Pixel.

Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From our base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through our acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards. Established in 1952 to advance “creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs,” Aperture champions photography’s vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.