Environment&Me — EEA Photo Competition 2025 (€1,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Calling all images fanatics! The European Environment Agency (EEA) invites you to inform the story of your connection to the surroundings and showcase your photographic expertise within the 2025 version of their annual photograph competitors.

This 12 months’s competitors “Environment&Me” supplies a singular OPPORTUNITY to showcase your tackle our planet’s journey towards a sustainable future. We face unprecedented environmental challenges which were shaping the world we dwell in. From the seen impacts of local weather change—equivalent to rising temperatures and excessive climate — to biodiversity loss, air pollution, waste, and useful resource shortage, these points contact our on a regular basis lives. 

Through your lens, replicate on how these challenges influence and form the world round you. 

• How do environmental challenges influence your every day life? 
• What indicators of constructive change or motion provide you with hope?
• Where can we see progress in direction of sustainability and the place do we have to do higher? 

Whether you seize breathtaking landscapes, stark reminders of environmental degradation, moments of progressive transformation, or the small but highly effective actions taken by people, your images will assist inform the story of our shared future.

Categories

Showcase your creativity as a photographer beneath these classes:

• Blue: Dive into the guts of our blue planet. Showcase the sweetness and challenges of our oceans, rivers, lakes, and marine life. From pristine coastlines and aquatic ecosystems to the influence of air pollution, overfishing and water shortage worsened by local weather change; inform the story of our water and its important function in sustaining life. Highlight sustainable actions like rainwater harvesting, environment friendly irrigation techniques or wetland conservation or seize the stark impacts of local weather change.
• Green: Celebrate the range of our landscapes and their biodiversity. Whether it’s lush forests, agricultural lands or the unbelievable creatures that dwell in our mountains, seize the essence of the inexperienced areas that nourish our planet. Highlight the resilience of nature or remind us of what we stand to lose with out motion  – scorched forests lowered to ash, polluted soils by pesticides, or as soon as-thriving habitats now barren because of human influence. Show each the great thing about what we’ve and the devastation that awaits if we fail to guard it.
• Orange: Explore the intricate bond between folks and their surroundings — how we dwell, work, and devour throughout the residing areas. From houses stuffed with private histories to colleges the place concepts take root, and workplaces buzzing with innovation, our environments inform tales of adaptation and affect. Dive into the methods we work together with the planet’s sources — whether or not by way of sustainable practices that reuse and remodel, or the urgent challenges posed by overconsumption.

Prizes

• €1,000 for one of the best photograph in every class (3 winners).
• €500 Public Choice Award (chosen through public voting from 1–15 July 2025).
• €500 Youth Prize for members aged 18–24 years.

Eligibility

• Open to the residents of the EU 27 Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Türkiye; beneath the stabilisation and affiliation agreements: North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• The images have to be taken within the international locations talked about above.
• All members have to be 18 or older.
• You should have full copyrights to the submitted materials.
• Photos ought to adjust to the manipulation guidelines set out within the Terms and Conditions.
• You could submit most 5 entries within the competitors. Each entry will probably be dealt with individually so you could fill out a brand new submission kind for every entry.

Application

• Submit your entry (max 5)
• Take an authentic photograph in digital format (e.g.: .jpeg, .png, .tiff) with minimal decision of 2000 pixels — ideally greater than 4960 pixels — on the lengthy aspect of the photograph.
• Support your photograph with a title and an non-compulsory quick description (most 1000 characters in English).

Submit your entry by 30 May 2025 23.59 (CEST).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Environment&Me — EEA Photo Competition.