World Environment Day Photography Showcase on the State of our Environment 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Submit your entries for the World Environment Day Photography Showcase on the State of our Environment 2025. In celebration of this yr’s World Environment Day, Hivos is inviting submissions from photographers and sketch artists with unique work that seize environmental degradation and local weather change in Zambia. The purpose of the competitors is to advertise grassroots image storytelling on points affecting our atmosphere and on a regular basis life.

The submissions might be used to invoke discussions with Members and Parliament on what must be finished in a different way to mitigate and forestall additional harm to our atmosphere. They hope that this might be a technique to excite and encourage communities to take part in debates on how the impacts of environmental degradation and local weather change have an effect on our wellbeing.

Categories

The sketches and images beneath every theme ought to seize the following:

• Climate change – Drought, floods, water shortage, vitality use, well being impacts like illness outbreaks and many others.
• Biodiversity loss – Deforestation, loss of animal and water species, overexploitation, sustainable agriculture, sustainable fishing and forest administration, city gardening, pollination and many others.
• Mining – Water air pollution, air air pollution, human displacements, tailing dams, group livelihoods vs environmental degradation, diseases associated to mining and many others.
• Environmental degradation and air pollution – Waste administration, plastic air pollution, improper use of herbicide and pesticides, mitigating measures to the foregoing, and many others.

Eligibility

• Open to photographers and sketch artists in Zambia.
• They ought to have unique work that seize environmental degradation and local weather change in Zambia.
• Young individuals, ladies and folks residing with disabilities are notably inspired to submit entries.

Application

• Each participant might be required to fill out a brief entry. Submit a brief writeup of no more than 200 phrases accompanied with 3 to 4 photographs that inform a narrative on any of our 4 thematic areas. The 4 thematic areas are (1) local weather change, (2) biodiversity loss, (3) mining, and (4) environmental degradation and air pollution. Participants ought to clearly point out beneath which thematic space they’re making use of.
• The entries can both seize the devastating results as the present state or the mitigation efforts as the aspired future. A panel of technical judges might be constituted to shortlist 16 entries (4 from every class) whose work might be printed on Hivos and associate web sites and social media web page(s) and in an image story e-book on ‘The state of local weather change and atmosphere in Zambia” to be offered and distributed at COP 30.
• The shortlisted candidates will obtain recognition as local weather champions. On World Environment Day (June 5, 2025), the 16 finalists might be invited to a closing ceremony graced by the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment in addition to Members of Parliament. 4 winners from the shortlisted entries might be chosen and offered with a financial prize.

To submit fill out this entry form and ship an e mail, attaching your photographs/sketches to [email protected]. Entries might be acquired from April 1, 2025 to April 30, 2025. All entries have to be despatched to: [email protected], clearly titled World Environment Day Photography and the class being utilized for, e.g. World Environment Day Photography Climate Change.

For extra data, go to WED Photography Showcase.