United Nations FAO International Year of Camelids Photo Contest 2024 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Are you an expert or beginner photographer or just captivated with camelids? Join the International Year of Camelids (IYC) Photo Contest and assist unfold the phrase in regards to the significance of these heroes of deserts and highlands! An worldwide skilled jury composed of photographers, picture editors, and camelid consultants will choose an total winner. The 4 runners-up will go to a public vote on social media.

Photos ought to illustrate a number of of the next elements:

• Camelid services and products;
• Camelids, livelihoods and financial development;
• Camelids, meals safety and vitamin;
• Camelids and tradition;
• Camelids and ladies’s empowerment; and
• Camelids, local weather change and resilience.

Prizes

• The first prize winner of the picture contest will probably be invited to a camelid occasion at FAO headquarters in Rome (Italy). Travel bills will probably be coated for the winner, in keeping with FAO guidelines.
• Winners will probably be introduced on the International Year of Camelids web site in April 2025.
• Winners will probably be promoted on FAO social media, by FAO places of work world wide and accomplice web sites.
• All 5 winners will obtain a certificates of recognition and a shock reward bag.
• In the occasion that any of the chosen winner(s) of any prize (that’s/are eligible in accordance with these Contest guidelines and/or the General Rules, Copyright and Privacy) can’t be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will probably be forfeited and will probably be within the sole discretion of FAO to decide on whether or not to award the prize to a different eligible entry.
• When profitable photographs are printed, solely the primary and household title will probably be printed. No different private details about the contestants will probably be printed or shared.

Eligibility

• Participants ought to be 18 years outdated or above.
• Each participant can submit as much as 5 pictures by filling in and submitting the registration type. Each picture ought to be submitted individually by filling within the type.
• Submissions will probably be accepted solely in English, French, and Spanish.
• Participants should personal the copyright and should have taken the pictures themselves. The photographs should have been taken after 1 January 2021.
• Each submitted {photograph} should have a title and a brief description/caption explaining what the picture represents, contemplating a number of of the elements talked about, and the place/when the picture was taken.
• Participants are invited to submit their photographs on social media accounts, utilizing the IYC hashtag/s: #YearOfCamelids and #IYC2024 and tagging @FAO.
• Photographs should be submitted in .jpeg format. Images ought to be of prime quality (e.g. 300 dpi and 5000 pixels and a file measurement that doesn’t exceed 2 MB). Both color and/or black and white pictures will probably be accepted.
• The materials should not violate or infringe third occasion’s rights together with however not restricted to trademark, privateness, publicity or different mental property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.
• The submission should not include dates, texts, model names, logos or logos.
• The IYC Secretariat respects photographers’ rights and doesn’t declare copyright over pictures submitted to this contest. The writer retains full copyright for every entry. Whenever the picture is printed by FAO, the writer will probably be credited.

Application

• Step 1: Choose as much as 5 of your personal photographs and put together captions.
• Step 2: Fill in and submit a registration type for every picture by 28 February 2025.
• Step 3: Stay tuned to search out out who the winners are!
• Bonus step: Share your photographs on social media with the hashtags #YearOfCamelids and #IYC2024. 

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For extra data, go to UN FAO International Year of Camelids Photo Contest.