Application Deadline: 14 October 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition. Calling all professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, content creators, and nature lovers. Gear up to showcase the stunning beauty and critical importance of our planet’s biodiversity through the lens of your camera. Let’s inspire action to protect the richness of our natural world.
CIFOR-ICRAF invite you to capture the essential role of forests and trees in promoting biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and driving restoration efforts.
Eligibility
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.
Rules
Please note the following rules:
- Entries should not include watermarks, signatures, or captions.
- Entries that have previously won other photography competitions will be automatically disqualified.
- Submissions featuring children or minors are not eligible.
- Entries generated using generative artificial intelligence tools or with their assistance are ineligible.
- Images portraying the willful harassment of wildlife will not be accepted.
- Photos taken in ways that cause or have caused environmental damage by the photographer, including capturing images in areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or property managers, are not eligible.
- Photos taken before the year 2010 will not be eligible.
Prize
Jury selection first prize
Jury selection second prize
People’s choice award
Finalists
The CIFOR-ICRAF team will email all finalists on 6 December 2024. They will be invited to share a short video message about their photo and work. The best videos will be exhibited in our art gallery on CIFOR-ICRAF’s digital platform (more information to be announced).
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition