Global Peace Photo Award 2021

Global Peace Photo Award 2021 now is over!

Global Peace Photo Award 2021: The Global Peace Photo Award 2021, photo competition that recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives is calling for entries again inviting all photographers from anywhere in the world.

Short description

The Global Peace Photo Award 2021 now is calling for entries accepting submissions from all photographers from anywhere in the world.

The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. The award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.

All winners will be invited to Vienna to the award ceremony at the Austrian Parliament on 21 September 2021 with travel expenses and accommodation paid.

Submission requirements:

➜ You may submit as many entries as you wish. You may enter several photographs as individual submissions - SINGLE IMAGE - without an overall theme. Or you can submit up to 20 photographs as one STORY.

➜ The photographs must not be older than 3 years at the time when the call for entry opens.

➜ For each submission (single image or story) you must have a caption in English, maximum length 2000 characters.

➜ Digital submissions must be saved as .jpg, with more than 3000 pixels on the longest side.

➜ Photographs that are part of a reportage on a topic must not be manipulated in a way that changes the meaning of the picture. For other entries, it is accepted digitally edited images and photo montages if they serve to explore a theme creatively. All digitally edited images must make clear what has been done to them in the captions that accompany the images.

Evaluation Criteria:

The jury will judge the photographs on artistic merit, originality, subject and style, based on the theme of peace.

The winners will be notified by phone or email right after the jury meeting on 18 July 2021.

Who may enter?

This competition is open to professional and amateur photographers from anywhere in the world.

Prize:

The top 5 listed photographers will be awarded the Alfred Fried Peace Medal. The Peace Image of the Year will receive €10,000. The winning picture will be on display for one year at the Austrian Parliament and will be included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian Parliament.