UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest 2017

UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest 2017 is for young photographers to visually participate in a contest through representing solutions to climate change in their communities. The deadline for the UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest is 30 September 2017.

• This photography contest will give a chance to a person to add their voice in the foremost conference on climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 23rd Conference of Parties (COP-23) that will be hosted in the historical city of Bonn, Germany, from 6th -17th November 2017.
• In this UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest20 winning images will be selected & displayed at COP-23 and social media and one image will be selected as the overall winning piece.

Deadline of Contest: 30 September 2017

The winner of UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest 2017 will be rewarded a fully funded trip to Bonn, Germany. At this place, the work of winner will be displayed to gain exposure on a global environmentally conscious platform.

• One image will be selected as the overall winning piece.
• 20 winning images will be selected and displayed at COP-23 and on social media.

The overall winner requires a visa, they will handle visa paperwork and fees for the quick processing of tickets. The visa fee is refundable; candidates must keep receipts for reimbursement. UN-Habitat will provide a supporting letter for the visa application.

To participate in this competition, candidates have to Post a picture with a caption on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter while tagging @UN-HABITAT and @UN-HabitatYouth using the hashtag #weareclimatechange.

Candidates are required to send a high-resolution image to advocacy@unhabitat.org, and cc faderr.johm@unhabitat.org together with their full name and contact information (email address, current address and phone number).

UN Habitat Youth Photography Contest Important Details

• The images have to be submitted in JPEG or TIFF in high resolution
• The climate change solutions should be explained clearly in the image and also include the neighbourhood, city and country of the image captured.
• Participating candidates are allowed to submit one entry into the competition
• The images containing nudity, personal attacks, and expletives will be disqualified from the contest.
• UN-Habitat will get the right to share their image on social media, display hard copies at COP-23 as well as on the UN-Habitat website competition gallery after the image submission.

• The winners will be selected on the basis of composition, technical excellence, originality, responsiveness to the theme, and overall impact.
• 20 winning images will be selected and displayed at COP-23 and on social media.
• One image will be selected as the overall winning piece.
• The winners will be informed privately before UN-Habitat makes a formal announcement.

Email: advocacy@unhabitat.org, faderr.johm@unhabitat.org