Are you hoping to become a photographer? For you, the UNESCO Photo Contest 2024 is the ideal opportunity! This international contest, now in its sixth edition, welcomes young people from all over the world, aged 14 to 25, to demonstrate their photographic abilities and earn fantastic prizes. The UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest encourages photography, cross-cultural exchange, harmony, and peace among the areas that the Silk Roads connected.
The contest’s theme for 2024 is “Life Celebrations in Diverse Cultural Contexts,” which invites entries to document a range of occasions, milestones, rites, and traditions. Through visual arts, youth are engaged in constructive and hopeful activities through this initiative of the UNESCO Silk Roads Programme.
Strengthening educational and cultural relations is the goal of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Through its Silk Road initiatives, nations along the historic trade routes are encouraged to collaborate and exchange cultural ideas.
Young photographers can exhibit their skills and support cultural variety by entering the UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest. The winners will receive free cameras as prizes. Apply right away to avoid missing this opportunity to have your artwork seen via the lens of the UNESCO Photo Contest!
Region: Online
Opportunity Type: Competitions
Eligibility Criteria:
- The Silk Roads International Photo Contest is open to youth from around the globe.
- There are two age groups for the contest: 14 to 17 years old and 18 to 25 years old.
- To participate, minors must obtain written consent from their legal guardians.
- A maximum of 20 images may be submitted by each participant, and all images must be original.
- Entrants are not permitted to pose as or engage in any other person’s participation; participation is strictly personal.
- Every picture has to fit the theme of the UNESCO Photo Contest 2024.
- Simple modifications like cropping, brightness, contrast, and colour adjustments are permitted.
- Pictures shouldn’t be heavily altered, and any changes should be made apparent in the description.
- It is required of participants to submit high-resolution pictures that can be printed on any kind of medium.
- Any photo that doesn’t fit the requirements may be taken off by the organiser.
Benefits:
- The UNESCO competition provides a fantastic venue for aspiring photographers to display their abilities.
- The prize for participating is a professional or semi-professional camera, which would otherwise be expensive to purchase.
- For young people all over the world, the UNESCO Photo Contest is an amazing competition.
- It encourages original thought and creativity.
- A professional-grade DSLR camera with an 18-55mm lens is awarded as the first prize.
- A semi-professional digital camera is the second prize.
- The digital camera is the third reward.
Deadline: 5 August 2024.
