GHHIN/EJN Extreme Heat Photo Contest 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 29, 2025

Applications are open for the GHHIN/EJN Extreme Heat Photo Contest 2025. The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), in partnership with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN), is launching a world pictures competitors to showcase the actual impacts of maximum warmth, and the methods communities all over the world are responding to it.

Heat is a silent killer, and it stays largely invisible and misunderstood. The Network invites photographers and visible storytellers from all over the world to assist us change that. This competitors seeks authentic, compelling pictures that seize the human, environmental, and infrastructural impacts of maximum warmth—in addition to the artistic methods communities are utilizing to remain protected and resilient.

Categories

They need highly effective photos that make the invisible seen. Show what warmth appears to be like like the place you reside. Submissions should match one of many following classes:

• Heat Impacts on Human Health
• Heat Impacts on Infrastructure & the Economy
• Heat Impacts on the Environment & Animals
• Heat Resilience Strategies

Prizes

While group guidelines prohibit financial prizes, they’re providing academic, networking and publication alternatives to contest winners and finalists, who may have their work attain actual resolution-makers working to deal with the rising dangers of warmth to our well being. The general winner and winners for every class will obtain:

• Photojournalism masterclass: Contest winners can be invited to a digital Photojournalism Masterclass with Nicola Vigilanti, a Lyon-based documentary photographer with over 20 years of expertise. Blending sensible abilities with a considerate, moral perspective on capturing human tales, members will dive into the craft and ethics of documentary pictures, masking storytelling, aesthetics, approach, enhancing, and caption writing within the session. Nicola will introduce his intentional strategy to visible storytelling: one which sharpens remark, strengthens narrative construction, and develops a crucial eye for constructing a photographic collection or portfolio.
• Internews’ Earth Journalism Network characteristic: Finalists may have their photos featured in a photograph essay on warmth danger and motion all over the world, to be produced by GHHIN in partnership with EJN. 
• Digital exhibit: Your picture and knowledge can be included in a digital exhibit to be displayed at varied UN local weather and well being conferences. 
• Certificate: A customized certificates of recognition from the Global Heat Health Information Network 
• Online promotion: You can be credited in your work each time it’s used, together with in options on www.ghhin.org and Network social media, with potential placement on international UN, well being, and local weather communications channels.

Eligibility

• Entrants have to be 18 years or older on the time of submission.
• The contest is open to people and teams globally, besides staff or direct contractors of GHHIN or the WMO Secretariat.

Submission Requirements

• All pictures have to be authentic, unaltered (past primary enhancing), and submitted in JPEG or PNG format, with minimal compression.
• AI-generated photos should not permitted.
• Image dimension have to be no less than 4000 x 3000 pixels.
• Submissions should embrace a title, date, and placement, and be accompanied by an photographer’s caption describing what is going on within the {photograph} and/or offering some context.
• Multiple entries are allowed, however every particular person might solely win in a single class.
• Photographs which have beforehand gained awards or been printed in on-line or print publications (excluding private social media) should not eligible.
• Photos used on private platforms reminiscent of blogs, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Flickr are permitted.

Application

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For extra data, go to Extreme Heat Photo Contest.