This is a big year for us – 2025 will mark the fifth, and final, year of our special five-year grant cycle, the 1492/1619 American Aftermaths grant. I’m so proud of TAP’s board, which committed to this special grant, which we launched in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the protests that broke out across the United States in 2020.

We’ve mentioned this before, but we’d love to see more explorations of Asian and Hispanic experiences. We’d also love to get proposals from white photographers who want to examine what it means to be white in the aftermaths of enslavement and colonialism.

As for your proposal, you don’t have to address both 1492 and 1619 in your project, but you do need to have a thoughtful proposal (and strong work) that shows your understanding of how these aftermaths still resonate today.

As always, we will name one winner of our $25,000 grant. Thanks to the generous support of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation for all five years of our American Aftermaths grant cycle, our four finalists each year will also receive a $5,000 grant.

'1492/1619 American Aftermaths'