Calling for applications for the CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition 2024!
Calling all professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, content creators, and nature lovers! It’s time to showcase the breathtaking beauty and critical importance of our planet’s biodiversity through the lens of your camera. Together, let’s inspire action and foster a deeper connection to the natural world, highlighting the need to protect its rich diversity.
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CIFOR-ICRAF invites you to capture the essential role that forests and trees play in sustaining life on Earth. Trees and forests are vital not only for the myriad of species they support but also for their contribution to climate stability and resilience. Through your photography, we seek to illustrate the incredible diversity of life that thrives within forest ecosystems, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. Show how forests act as sanctuaries, providing habitat, food, and shelter to countless forms of life.
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CIFOR-ICRAF’s photos can also highlight how trees and forests are crucial in mitigating climate change. They act as the lungs of the planet, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, thus helping to regulate the Earth’s climate. Capture the dynamic relationship between trees, weather patterns, and climate resilience. Additionally, CIFOR-ICRAF encourages you to showcase efforts in landscape restoration through tree planting, reforestation, and conservation initiatives. These efforts are vital in combating deforestation and habitat loss, fostering a sustainable future for generations to come.
CIFOR-ICRAF is also interested in the presence of trees in various environments, from lush natural forests to agricultural lands and bustling urban areas. Illustrate how trees adapt and thrive in different settings, contributing to the health of ecosystems and human communities. Lastly, explore the profound relationship between trees and people. Highlight their cultural significance, the ways they enhance our well-being, and their importance in everyday life. Your photos have the power to tell compelling stories, spark conversations, and drive action toward protecting our planet’s precious biodiversity.
Benefits
- Jury selection first prize: USD 500
- Jury selection second prize: USD 400
- People’s choice award: USD 300
Eligibilities
- The CIFOR-ICRAF photo competition welcomes participants aged 18 or older. You are encouraged to use the photography equipment with which you are most comfortable. Employees of CIFOR-ICRAF are not eligible to enter.
- By submitting photos to the competition, the contributor agrees to a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial share-alike license (BY-NC-SA).
- By uploading the image, the contributor ensures that the image was taken legally and that they have the right to portray all people or other information contained in the image.
- Competition organizers reserve the right to use all photos submitted through the competition for CIFOR-ICRAF materials and exhibitions during CIFOR-ICRAF events. Contributors will be given credit when the organizers publish or use their pictures. Contributors do not have permission to use the photos they submitted for commercial purposes.
- Contributors who work for the media are required to attach an authorization signed by a representative of the media company employing them. This authorization should state that the contest organizers have permission to publish the author’s piece from the media outlet where the photo originally appeared. Please attach your approval (if applicable) in the submission form.
Application Process
- Apply through this link
https://photocompetition24.cifor-icraf.org/photo-submission/
- Submit your entries
You may submit multiple entries with maximum 3 photos; however, you can only have one ultimate entry in the final round
The uploaded file must include the photo’s title, name, email address, social media handles (if applicable), and a caption stating the following: the subject and location, and a short description of the story behind the picture.
- Copyright
You must have the full copyright to the submitted photos. Therefore, by submitting your entries, you will be presumed to have agreed to accept the contest rules and the terms and conditions.
Application Deadline: October 14, 2024
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