12 Fully-Funded Photography Residencies with Darkrooms
A guide to fully-funded photography residencies
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What is the purpose of a photo residency?
Photo residencies offer extremely valuable time and resources. They are opportunities to step away from your daily routine and responsibilities to dedicate an extended period of time, energy, and thought to your artistic practice. Photographers use residencies to finish projects, edit and print bodies of work, begin new work, experiment, produce images for ongoing projects, sequence exhibitions and photobooks, and more.
There are many residencies that charge artists to attend; however, in keeping with The Open Call List’s emphasis on artist-friendly opportunities, this guide presents only residencies that are fully-funded. That is, every residency below offers cost-free participation, housing, food, and access to facilities during the entire duration of the residency. Many of the residencies also include generous stipends, travel honoraria, and/or other forms of support.
Further, this guide specifically contains residencies that include darkroom facilities. However, not all of the residencies below require analog photographic practices to apply. Many also include digital resources like scanners, large format printers, lighting studios, editing suites, and more. For digital and analog photographers alike, this guide outlines some of the most artist-friendly residency opportunities to dedicate time and resources to your photographic practice.
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12 Fully-Funded Photography Residencies with Darkrooms
1. Monson Arts’ Abbott Watts Residency
The Abbott Watts Residency for photographers takes place at Monson Arts in Monson, Maine, USA. While Monson Arts hosts year-round residencies across many visual and literary arts, five placements each year are reserved for photography residents. The residency has a special emphasize on utilizing the Abbott Watts photo facilities, which includes top-notch digital and analog equipment alike.
Duration: 2-4 weeks
Stipend / Housing: Residents receive stipends of $250 for 2-week residencies and $500 for 4-week residencies, as well as all meals covered during the residency. Housing is provided in the form of a private bedroom.
Facilities: The Abbott Watts darkroom accommodates silver gelatin printing up to 40” x 50” from negatives 35mm to 8″ x 10”. The darkroom also accommodates alternative processes. Additionally, the facility includes a private digital studio, including a 44” Epson digital printer, scanners, trimmers and a 48 x 96” dry-mount press.
More information about the Monson Arts Abbott Watts Residency.