About

Northern Exposure scholarship offers a full tuition scholarship for two artists to attend the 2025 Medium Review and Festival. The Medium Review takes place virtually April 3-5, 2025, with Festival events taking place March 21-23 in San Diego and Tijuana.

Artists residing in the Mexican border states of Baja California Norte, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas are invited to submit an application.

Scholarship applications will open in January 2025.

An online information session is available below. Please contact us with questions about applying.

Scholarship Recipients Receive

• Tuition to the 2025 Medium Review

• Access to all lectures and events at the 2025 Medium Festival of Photography

• One year membership to Medium Photo (Artist level)

• Free submission to enter our juried exhibition Size Matters

• Mentoring support after the Medium Review

What is the Medium Review?

The 2025 Medium Review offers photographers the opportunity to meet gallery owners, photo editors, museum curators, non-profit directors, and publishers who attend Medium to discover new talent in photography and make lasting professional connections. Participating photographers receive eight twenty-minute meetings on April 2025, hosted virtually to maximize accessibility. Attending the review allows photographers the ability to share their work through dialog, studio visits and video content, with promotion of their work through Medium Photo.

The Medium Review prides itself on being a small, welcoming, and supportive environment for photographers, promoting connections with peer photographers and professional contacts.

Submissions

Artists who currently reside in Mexico’s six border states are invited to apply to the Northern Exposure program, with preference given to citizens of Mexico. Applications for the 2025 scholarships will open in January 2025. Complete submissions will include the following:

• 10 jpegs of recent work, sized at 2000px

• A statement describing the series of work submitted and your personal motivations for this work

• An updated CV, website, and social media channels

Submissions will be sent by email in pdf format to info@mediumphoto.org

Past Scholarship Recipients

Scholarships have been awarded to photographers Alejandra Aragon, Mónica Arreola, Samahil Borbon, Mario Chavez, Saulo Cisneros, Aglae Cortés, Alejandro Cossio, Victoria Fava, Adrian Gil, Nancy González, Ingrid Hernandez, Liliana Hueso, Mayra Huerta Jimenez, Ingrid Leyva, Mariel Miranda, Claudia Moreno, Nahatan Navarro, Victor Palomares, Gabriela Elena Suarez, Joel Trejo, Karina Villalobos, and Javier Zamora.