The Joan Wakelin bursary
The Joan Wakelin bursary offers photographers £2,000 and the chance to see their work in the Guardian. It is jointly administered by the Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society
April 2024
Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize at 20 – in pictures
The Joan Wakelin bursary offers photographers £2,000 and an opportunity to have their work published in the Guardian. Now jointly administered by the Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society, we take a look back at a selction of some of the remarkable work of the last 20 years
June 2023
- The Guardian picture essay‘We could lose our lives at any time’: young matadors in Málaga – a photo essayThe latest recipient of the Joan Wakelin bursary from the Royal Photographic Society, photojournalist Owen Harvey visits Spain to explore what the divisive tradition of bullfighting still means to young matadors as the country heads for elections that could influence its future.
February 2023
October 2022
May 2022
April 2022
July 2020
June 2019
January 2018
January 2017
June 2016
Islands in action: Algarve – The Joan Wakelin bursary 2015, winning photographs
Off the Algarve coast are the barrier islands of Armona, Deserta and Culatra and the waterways of the Rio Formosa natural park. The islands’ inhabitants have been in a court battle for the right not to demolish their houses on the islands, which the authorities say are damaging the environment
April 2015
Teen liposuction and busty pinatas: narcoaesthetics in Colombia – in pictures
In Colombia, girls grow up in a world where they are seen as decorative objects – and where plastic surgery rules. For her new photoessay Beauties, Manuela Henao captures the teenagers shelling out fortunes for buttock implants, nose jobs and new breasts
July 2014
June 2013
June 2012
June 2011
March 2010
June 2008
June 2007
Eyewitness: The China-Tibet sky train
The Joan Wakelin Photographic Bursary, administered by the Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society, is given to the photographer who presents the best proposal for a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue. It was established from a legacy by the photojournalist Joan Wakelin.
Last year's winner, Charles Stewart , travelled to China to photograph a new railway line between China and Tibet. The 714-mile Golmud-Lhasa line links the province of Qinghai, and by extension Beijing, with the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. The trains were specially designed to operate in the extreme conditions of the 4,000ft Tibetan Plateau, where temperatures regularly drop to -35C and 50mph winds act as an "ecological sandblaster"
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