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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

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

    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

  • Trainee matador Antonio Fernández Torres de Navarra, wearing his traje de luces and practising with his muleta, in Málaga’s La Malagueta bullring.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘We could lose our lives at any time’: young matadors in Málaga – a photo essay

    The 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

  • Beauty Devi (34) sitting in her village in the evening time after burning coal. Photo by Supratim Bhattacharjee  Beauty Devi (34) sitting in her village in the evening time after burning coal

    Documentary photographers - win a £2,000 bursary and have your work published in the Guardian

    Entries are welcomed for this year’s Joan Wakelin bursary for a photo essay on an overseas social documentary issue. Photographers have until 29 May to apply

October 2022

  • Beauty Devi and her son fetching water

    The Guardian picture essay
    The perils of unofficial coalmining in India – photo essay

    Photojournalist Supratim Bhattacharjee documents the story of an unofficial coalminer and her family in the Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India. Her work was supported by the Joan Wakelin bursary

May 2022

  • Women hold candles at a church service

    The Guardian picture essay
    There is wisdom here’: Romania’s last peasant women – a photo essay

    Judy Ford, recipient of the 2020 Joan Wakelin Bursary, travelled to rural Romania to record the disappearing culture of women living a traditional lifestyle with very little support

April 2022

  • A photograph by Eleri Griffiths, a previous winner of the Joan Wakelin bursary, who chose to document the Women Bee Keepers of Cameroon

    The Joan Wakelin bursary 2022 entries are open – here’s how to apply

    Entries are now welcome for this year’s Joan Wakelin bursary, which offers photographers £2,000 and the chance to be published in the Guardian

July 2020

  • Adriano Pina performs for tourists at Tasca do Chico in Bairro Alto, Lisbon.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Lisbon's back-alley fado legends – photo essay

    A portrait of Lisbon, saudade and the fado folk music of the city and its relationship with tourism by Henri Kisielewski

June 2019

  • Gerson with his friends and cousin at the rooftop of their home.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Three Venezuelan families – a photo essay

    Silvana Trevale left Venezuela in 2011 but has returned to document the ever worsening crisis that has deeply affected families of every economic status

January 2018

  • Khanyi in her garden

    The Guardian picture essay
    Khanyi's matric dance: a South African student's rite of passage – photo essay

    Photographer Alice Mann follows Khanyisa Mtulu as she prepares for her final-year ‘matric’ dance

January 2017

  • 76-year-old Ekua Ketsewa chats with family members

    'The disease enslaved me': living with leprosy in Ghana – in pictures

    More than 50 people are diagnosed with leprosy each day in many of the world’s poorest countries. Photographer Matilda Temperley has worked on a project examining leprosy in Ghana

June 2016

  • Sunset at Farol village, the Algarve

    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

  • A young woman shows off her tattoos in Medellin, Colombia, 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

  • Cameroon beekeepers. Bridget Mbah, secretary to the Bamendankwe Rural Development Women's Organisation fuels a smoker with leaves.

    Guardian Africa network
    The women beekeepers of Cameroon - in pictures

    A cooperative of beekeepers in the rural Cameroonian town of Bamenda is helping women to pay for their children’s education

June 2013

  • Joan Wakelin Bursary Fog Collecting in Chile
Fog Catchers of the Atacama by Neil Hall

    The Joan Wakelin bursary 2013 – entries open

    Entries are now welcome for this year's Joan Wakelin bursary, which offers photographers £2,000 and the chance to be published in the Guardian

June 2012

  • A photographs by the 2011 winner of the Joan Wakelin bursary, Neil Hall, who chose to document the fog collecting project in northern Chile

    The Joan Wakelin bursary 2012 – entries open

    Entries are invited for this year's Joan Wakelin bursary, offering photographers £2,000 and the chance to see their work in the Guardian

June 2011

  • Camera club
    The Joan Wakelin bursary – in pictures

  • Joan Wakelin Bursary 2010 Yevgenia Byelorusets

    Camera club
    The Joan Wakelin bursary

March 2010

  • Faraja and Pishon Mhewa with their baby brother Jeminus. Mafinga, Iringa, Tanzania

    The Joan Wakelin bursary

    Entries are invited for this year's Joan Wakelin bursary, offering photographers £2,000 and the chance to see their work in the Guardian

June 2008

  • Waste collector Rajeev Kumar, 20, and his cart in an affluent suburb of Delhi

    A Day in the life of a Delhi waste picker

    The Joan Wakelin Photographic Bursary is an award of £2,000 for the best proposal for a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue

June 2007

  • Beijing West

    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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