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Get $5K for Your Documentary Photo Project

A new grant for socially conscious photographers could make a dream documentary project a reality for one lucky applicant. As Erick Danzer was slogging through Indonesia covering illegal logging operations, an idea came to him. He would create a $5,000, o

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/01/get-5k-for-your-documentary-photo-project/

As Erick Danzer was slogging through Indonesia covering illegal logging operations, an idea came to him.  He would create a $5,000, one-year grant, now called the Photocrati Fund, to facilitate a humanitarian or environmental project in an era when news agencies are scaling back.