Realisation Grants 2025

The Centre for British Photography is delighted to announce the second year of their grants and mentorship programme, supporting artists working with photography across Britain.

Overview

During 2025 the Centre for British Photography will be awarding a total of £10,000 with a maximum award of £2,500 per recipient. These are not support grants but are awards to enable photographers and artists working with photography to bring an ongoing project to completion within a year. They are open to individuals of all ages, irrespective of academic background.

Practical Info

Applicants must be based in Britain. However, they welcome a breadth of projects that address concepts, ideas and subject matter that may extend beyond Britain’s geographical borders. Submissions must be photographic or lens-based but can include incorporations of other art forms with the photographic medium (i.e. performance, painting, sculpture, music, literature etc) and must include 5-10 images, a project description and a project proposal.

An award of up to £2,500 per project (determined by proposal budget) which will be used by the applicant to complete the project within a year. Recipients of the Centre's Realisation Grants will also have a total of three sessions of expert mentorship from the team and trustees of the Centre for British Photography.

Selected photographers and artists working in photography will receive their grants in two stages: 50% upon acceptance of the grant, and the balance on September 15, 2025, considered the halfway mark of the grant competition period. Works produced with support of the grant should be finished by March 1, 2026.

About Centre for British Photography

The Centre for British Photography was founded by James Hyman in 2020 and seeks to support photographers working in Britain through exhibitions, events, grants and mentoring. The charity provides a platform for a range of voices in order to present an expansive overview of the diversity of photography, past and present.