THE BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
is pleased to announce the following
$250 Student Grants
available for the 2013-2014 Academic Year
The Helen M. Stummer Photography Grant
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
 Photography Major at Brookdale Community College planning to transfer to
a four-year college or university
 Have earned at least 12 credits at Brookdale Community College
 Registered for at least 9 credits for the 2012-2013 academic year
 Earned at least a 3.0 grade point average at Brookdale Community College
(attach transcript)
 Have an interest in Socially Concerned Photography and must submit a
portfolio or CD of 8-12 images representing this style of work
 Demonstrates financial need
 Have completed the basic level darkroom or digital photography course.
Eligible students should write a one-page essay detailing their
educational objectives, their interest in a socially concerned photography
project, as well as their financial need. Student must also write a proposal for
the particular project they wish to pursue.
A letter of recommendation from a counselor
or faculty member is also required.
All applications must be received by April 22, 2013.
Please send applications to Brookdale Community College
Foundation office: 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738,
Or you can deliver them directly to the Foundation Office, Brookdale
Administrative Center (BAC Bldg.), First floor, Parking Lot #3
Questions? You can call Lore Milione at the
Foundation Office at 732-224-2260 or lmilione@brookdalecc.edu
This cover sheet must be submitted with your essay and the letter of
recommendation from a counselor or faculty member.
Helen M. Stummer Photography Grant
Name ______________________________________________________
Street Address _______________________________________________
Town__________________________ Zip _________________________
Email Address_______________________________________________
Student ID # ________________________________________________
Home Telephone # ____________________________________________
Cell Phone # __________________________________________________
Please submit this form along with your personal essay, project proposal, CD,
and a letter of recommendation from a counselor or faculty member.
Send to:
Brookdale Foundation
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ 07738
Att: Helen M. Stummer Scholarship
GOAL OF THE GRANT
To provide financial support for materials to students interested in pursuing a
socially concerned photography project .
NATURE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT
Projects should be centered around the desire to make known a particular
social circumstance of a humanitarian nature.
or
An exploration of a cultural, ethnic or social group other than one’s own.
SUGGESTIONS
1. A suggestion from Helen M. Stummer is to approach someone you do not
know and ask if you can photograph this individual over a period of time.
As you become acquainted with this person, learn about them, learn about
their family, activities, interests, etc. create a portfolio of work that
documents what you come to know about them.
2. Choose a project that will help others become aware of a particular social or
humanitarian situation that you feel has not been recognized well enough or
has been totally ignored. You may get an idea for this project from stories in
your local newspaper.
3. Explore and document with photography a cultural, ethnic or social group or
organization that is outside the range of your personal experience.
4. Explore and document aspects of your own family or extended family to
reveal the unique world they represent.
TIME FRAME
Applications must be submitted by April 22, 2012
About Helen M. Stummer
Helen M. Stummer has, in the tradition of the socially concerned photographer,
Dedicated her life work to portraying the dignity and struggles of the poor and the disadvantaged.
Stummer holds degrees in studio art and visual sociology, a background that enabled her to
witness with an acute social awareness and a keen aesthetic eye, the lives of the individuals
she became acquainted with. She recorded the people she spent time with, in some cases decades,
and chronicled the aspects of their lives that they trustingly revealed to her. Her unique resolve
to remain connected to those she photographed over a period of time made it possible to capture
a history not often seen in documentary projects.
Stummer’s powerful photographs enlighten viewers to the harsh circumstances and conditions
of the residents who occupied the neighborhoods she frequented. She reveals the struggles
of these communities while allowing the humanity and dignity of the people who live there
to be honored and preserved.