CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition 2024
Published: 16 Sep 2024
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.
CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
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Benefits of CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $400
- 3rd Prize: $300
Requirements for CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
- Open to 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.
Selection Process
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.
Selection Criteria
All entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges selected by the CIFOR-ICRAF team, who will select at least 30 photos from all eligible submissions received during the competition period. Finalists will be chosen based on the following criteria:
- Creativity (30%)
- Photographic quality (30%)
- Composition (30%)
- Execution of theme (10%)
Application Deadline
October 14, 2024
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) on photocompetition24.cifor-icraf.org to apply
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 details,visit CIFOR-ICRAF website
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