The Howard Chapnick Grant
The 2021 Howard Chapnick Grant was presented to Sarah Stacke, co-founder of The 400 Years Project, a photography collective looking at the evolution of Native American identity, rights, and representation, centering the Native voice. Photograph by Louis Shotridge, courtesy University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
This year, funding was drastically reduced due to the global economic downturn, leaving the Board of Trustees with a difficult decision for this year’s grant cycle. The annual Howard Chapnick Grant, which is presented to an individual or entity for their support of photojournalists, will not be presented this year. This will allow the Smith Fund to support its core Smith Grant and Fellowships in the short term while raising additional funding to re-establish the Chapnick Grant and build its reserves for future grants.