Photographer Stephen Dupont, a 2007 recipient, says about the W. Eugene Smith Fund grant: “… when you receive the Smith Grant you get this real sense of pride and mission to make sure that what you work out of it is worthy of the master himself and that really pushes you to the limits of success.”
The Unseen Eye is a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in Humanistic Photography. We refer to it as Smith or the Smith Fund. Look at the website. The grant most often comes at the point early in a photographer’s career when the funding to finish a long-term project is especially welcome.
