Deadline: 4 October 2024
The Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices and/or human rights abuses, as well as the situations that either foster or fight against them.
By giving this award the name of the photographer and international humanitarian activist Luis Valtueña, they pay tribute to his memory, as well as to that of the three other activists of the association who were murdered in Rwanda (1997) and in Bosnia (1995) while carrying out their duties as humanitarian aid workers.
They also wish to highlight the human values represented by these individuals. The organization supports documentary photography and photojournalism as a means to raise public awareness concerning social issues, while also promoting citizen mobilization and contributing to the eradication of injustice, the world’s worst disease.
Themes
- The photographs submitted must tell a story related to one of the following themes: health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, human rights violations, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugees and/or migrant populations.
- Special attention will be paid to stories of interest which are not sufficiently covered or disseminated, or are little known, in order to contribute to their dissemination and reflection.
Funding Information
- Cash Prize: € 6,000
- In addition, the winner and the finalists will also have their work published in the catalogue and displayed in the collective and itinerant exhibition that Médicos del Mundo Spain will produce.
- The organization will cover the travel and lodging for two consecutive nights of the chosen entrants to attend the award ceremony and inauguration of the exhibition.
- Médicos del Mundo is committed to widely promoting the chosen images and their authors for at least one year through press releases, meetings with the media, and ad-hoc dissemination materials, among other forms.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participation is open to photographers -professional or otherwise- as well as to groups of two or more members, of any nationality, over 18 years of age and with a documentary and/or photojournalistic approach.
- The competition is not open to Médicos del Mundo España staff or their relatives up to the first degree of consanguinity. Neither is it open to members of the jury, the technical team directly linked to the management of the competition, or their family members up to the first degree of consanguinity.
Submission Requirements
- Participant(s) must be the author(s) of the pictures submitted in their name.
- At least 50% of the photographs must have been taken between 2023 and 2024. Projects that have been submitted to previous editions of the Luis Valtueña Competition are not eligible.
- All entries must be uploaded to the platform in the display order intended by their author. Pictures must be named with the series title and the corresponding order number (e.g., title_01), and must not contain the name or logo of the photographer.
- The images must be saved in digital JPEG format (*.jpg) with a minimum of 3,000 pixels on its longest edge. The sRGB or grayscale Gamma 2.2 color model are recommended. EXIF data/full metadata should be left on all images.
- All entries should be no larger than 3 MB in file size.
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