Opportunities for Visual Storytelling

Awarded annually, the Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant supports projects by independent photojournalists historically underrepresented in the global media landscape.

The Pulitzer Center’s Global Reporting Grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change. Our stories address the root causes of crises around the world, including within the U.S. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Survival in Xinjiang is an experimental immersive reporting project that includes "Inside Xinjiang's Prison State," an interactive feature story for The New Yorker, and Reeducated, a virtual-reality film.

Facing Life, which follows the lives of eight people recently released from California prisons, aims to bring greater understanding of the hurdles people face when they reenter our society, and maybe even a glimpse at yet another failure of the justice system—incarceration that only leaves the individual further behind than the rest of society.

This OjoPúblico journalistic investigation addresses issues that currently impact Indigenous populations in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru: the precarious access to health in thepandemic, deaths from COVID-19, and the penetration of criminal groups.

Antonella, a 12-year-old girl living only 150 meters away from Buenos Aires, has very long hair below her knees and has promised to cut it very short when school resumes after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This investigation delves into the underworld of mercury, following its path from Guyana to neighboring Suriname, exploring the health and environmental consequences, and what the prohibition of mercury would mean for the livelihoods of miners and communities across the Amazon.

In 2022, the Pulitzer Center supported photojournalism that captured a wide array of the year’s most definitive moments. The work featured here exemplifies visual storytelling with depth and nuance.

Grantee photojournalist Irina Werning has won a 2022 World Press Photo Award for her Pulitzer Center-supported photo project, La Promesa. The project won an award in the South America, Stories category.

The Virginia Quarterly Review has won an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Award in the Best Illustrated Story category for the Pulitzer Center-supported story “Drawn to War: A Ukraine Journal,” with illustrations and text by grantee George Butler. 

Grantee and Anchorage Daily News photojournalist Loren Holmes has earned first place in the Science Story category in the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) 2023 Best of Photojournalism Competition.

For the fourth time in five years, Wake Forest University and the Pulitzer Center created a for-credit photojournalism workshop for college students. During the spring 2023 semester, grantee Justin Cook led five seminar sessions over the course of three weeks, with students ultimately developing independent photo essays on a range of topics.

As part of the larger Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow program, students studying documentary filmmaking have opportunities for funding and mentorship as they develop their projects. During COVID-19, we expanded to offer post-graduate reporting grants to master's students at Columbia regardless of their medium.