Boyd's Station Project 306.36 Visual Documentary Program - Summer 2025
Boyd’s Station PROJECT 306.36 is now accepting applications to be considered for the $3,000 Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling and the $3,000 Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling to be awarded to two student photographers to take part in the annual 12-week intensive visual storytelling project documenting the people and culture of Harrison County, Kentucky during the Summer of 2025.
The two grant recipients will each receive an overall $3,000 grant paid equally over the three-month grant period.
The application window for the 2024 Reinke and Dillon Grants for Visual Storytelling deadline for applying is Monday, January 6, 2025.
The Reinke and Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling recipient will have furnished housing provided rent-free for the entire grant period and the photographers will have dedicated working space at the Boyd’s Station Gallery in downtown Cynthiana.
Candidates typically selected are college juniors, seniors, or current graduate students. However, recent graduates are encouraged to apply for consideration.
Applicants must be 21 years of age or older during the grant period - they can be 20 when they apply but must be 21 by the time the grant begins. Candidates must be enrolled in a journalism or communications program or a related degree program or recent graduates. Previous newspaper journalism internships and/or experience as a journalist on a college newspaper are preferred, but not mandatory.
To apply and to find more information about the program, start here: https://www.boydsstation.org/about-306
This is not a traditional internship where a photographer is expected to clock in and out at set hours each day under the direction of editors. A better description would be to think of Project 306.36 grants as a hybrid of a professional internship with mentoring and editing by a community of professional photographers and a grant where photographers work to fulfill the mission of the project. The expectation is that the grant recipient is self-motivated, will work a full 40 hours each week, and accomplish their goals while gathering original and unique photographs telling the story of Harrison County, KY.
Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 will expect photographers to vigorously document and photograph Harrison County and ingest those digital files EACH DAY for (at the minimum) 5 days each week
Finalists for the Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling and Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling will be interviewed by Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 selection committee members and additional work from the finalists may be requested.
This project is geared toward documentary photography of the people and places of Harrison County, Kentucky and the work of the grant recipient will become part of the Project 306.36 archive.
The Boyd’s Station 306.36 Visual Documentary Project has a large community of successful documentary photographer supporters who are the best in the world and are committed to seeing the grant recipient strive and succeed.
What might be the most unique thing about The Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling and Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling is that while in Harrison County, the grant recipient will have numerous in-person and virtual critiques of their work with different Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 visual documentary project mentors.
This opportunity will be a unique experience for the photographer and an accomplished professional to discuss work or seek answers to questions on how to successfully navigate documentary photography.
Grant recipients will be challenged to work daily documenting life in Harrison County as well as balancing time to pursue in-depth individual essays
Past grant recipients have been awarded top honors from numerous state and national photojournalism competitions from work produced during their time at Boyd's Station.
This is an annual photo documentary archive project. Full and complete captioning of all photographs is mandatory.
If you feel you will not be able to fulfill the rigorous reporting and captioning standards needed to successfully participate in this project, we would recommend you evaluate if this program is best suited for your ability to manage time and deadlines.
Students should only consider this program if able to work under weekly deadline considerations with a careful and exact eye for detail in providing full and complete captions for all of the work produced. You must be confident and willing to initiate conversations about your work, communicate with the project directors, and seek out project mentors to take full advantage of the community of support built around this program.
Boyd’s Station is happy to work with a grant recipient’s college or university to help them receive college credits for their work. We can prepare any summaries, descriptions, or other supporting documentation to try to fulfill the requirements of any school.
One of the unique things about this grant opportunity is that any work created by the photographer will be owned, and the copyright retained, by that individual. The photographer has the right to market or sell any of the work for personal gain editorially or commercially as long as the work and any photograph or video images sold commercially have proper documentation and release from subjects.
The complete collection of photos, words, creative works, and images produced during the project period become part of the overall historical archive and collection of the Boyd's Station archive. The photographer must grant Boyd’s Station the right, in perpetuity, to use any of the work created during the grant period in promotion, exhibits, and for educational purposes determined by Boyd’s Station without additional compensation. Boyd’s Station agrees not to sell or provide creative work or images for commercial gain without expressed written consent and agreement of the fellow.
To begin the application process to be considered for the grants, please refer to this link: https://www.boydsstation.org/vis-grants
Questions about the Project 306.36 program and applying can be directed to Jack Gruber at jack@boydsstation.org