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The Alpha Female+ Community
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ALPHA FEMALE CONTEST
This Week's Micro-Grant Theme is Environmental Portrait!
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calendar 05/29/23 to 06/04/23
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Brandi Cadette
For her project, “Crushed Black,” Brandi says she wants to create awareness & break a stigma that she & many other Black women have been made to feel.
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Zoe Urness
For her project, Zoe will use her camera to tell visual stories with a focus on the beginning stages of motherhood through the first year of life.
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Melody Paine
For her project, Melody Paine will work hand-in-hand with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a featured family.
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Luisa Del Valle
Luisa Del Valle will transform everyday objects and inspire viewers to think differently and look with a child's eyes at the outwardly mundane.
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Tori Wright
As the 1920s were a decade of empowerment for women, Wright will be working to link the 2020s with that heady era through her portraits.
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Angela Perez
With her Alpha Female+ grant, Perez will expand on how she is able to help convey their stories of older generations through the power of photography.
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Gabrielle Mariella
Inspired by Sonya Tayeh's speech at the Tony's, Mariella will create a film to inspire younger women to pursue a creative career in the theater and the arts.
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Sharon Miller
See how this hip-hop artist turned portrait photographer and creative educator will empower New York City's youth with her Alpha Female+ Grant.
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Hannah Mather
See how this biologist turned beekeeper and photographer will bring her pollinator project to life with a Sony Alpha Female+ Grant
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Nasra Nimaga
For her Alpha Female+ project, Nasra is creating "a thought provoking photo essay that combines photography and storytelling to explore themes exploring and challenging perceptions of womanhood and identity."
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Kristin Atwood
For Kristin Atwood's Alpha Female+ Grant project, she is creating a five-part series called “Flight of the Bumblebees” inspired by the seasonal bounty that honeybees create.
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Elizabeth Cayouette
"I decided to launch Keie Creative tutorials that break things down to the most basic level, exactly what I needed when I started in video. I named my project Keie Creative, because my ultimate goal is to set in motion women and girl’s creative video journeys."
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Lisa Janae
“The goal of the series is to showcase the lives of creatives and changemakers of color pushing their dreams forward and reminding us we’re all connected."
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