The Alexia

Now that the entries are in and the jurors well into the judging, we invite you to join us for The Alexia 2026 professional and student grants live judging weekend (sponsored by Sony) MARCH 27–28 at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (NH I Room 102).

Student submissions will be judged on Friday, March 27, beginning at 9 a.m. and will be followed by a Q&A session with the jurors — Elizabeth Krist, Danese Kenon and Victor Blue — in the early afternoon, then a keynote presentation by Victor Blue. The professional grant submissions will be judged on Saturday, March 28, beginning at 9 a.m.

If you plan to attend and require assistive services, please contact [email protected] by March 17. Events will not be live-streamed.

Thank you again to all of the applicants, to all of you who tell stories that inform, inspire and connect, and to all of you who support them.

WE ARE BETTER BECAUSE OF YOU.

The Alexia is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Festival of Ethical Photography, an international effort based in Lodi, Italy, and dedicated to socially conscious visual storytelling and its power to inspire meaningful change.

United by a shared mission, both organizations believe in photography’s ability to generate real social impact and to support those who, often at great personal risk, document stories that might otherwise go unseen.

As part of this partnership, The Alexia will present two special prizes to finalists of the World Report Award | Documenting Humanity, selected from the Spotlight Award and Student Award categories. The prizes, valued at €1,000 and €500, will recognize completed projects that would benefit from additional support to deepen coverage of important global issues.

The festival will produce exhibitions of The Alexia award recipients, to be displayed alongside the other 2026 contest winners.

This collaboration marks an important step in our continuing outreach to the global community in an effort to strengthen support worldwide for ethical documentary photography that informs, fosters understanding and inspires meaningful change.

We encourage you to learn more about and to enter their competition, please visit https://www.festivaldellafotografiaetica.it/home-2022-en/.

We are grateful for our partnership with the Festival of Ethical Photography and for their support of documentary photographers worldwide.

PLEASE JOIN US TODAY OR SATURDAY!

The Alexia invites you to participate in one (or both) of our two upcoming Q&A sessions. During these hourlong events we will provide helpful tips on how to apply, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the grants as well as the submission process.

SESSION 1: Thursday, February 5 with Visura CEO and founder Adriana Teresa Letorney from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST.

SESSION 2: Saturday, February 7 with former juror Whitney Johnson Latorre from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EST.

PLEASE RSVP at https://bit.ly/AlexiaQandA2026. We will email all registered participants a Zoom link 15 minutes before the event.

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for The Alexia 2026 professional and student grants competition is February 13, 2026, 11:59 p.m. EST. Please visit TheAlexia.org to apply and to read about this year’s grants.

Thank you for being part of The Alexia community. We hope to see you later this week.

[CREDITS: Pablo Vergara , Morgan Heim , John Stember ]