M4M Global Photography/Videography Competition

International Youth Day (IYD) is an annual celebration to recognise the role of young people as partners in change and an opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges that youth face globally. Greater efforts are needed to raise awareness about the importance of young people’s engagement in global health issues such as Mental Health.

In this globalized and digital photojournalistic era, young people are the experts in digital storytelling. They are skilled and enthusiastic in taking photographs or videographs for online social platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and more, the competition calls on young people to showcase these skill sets and explore how photography and videography can be a powerful tool for advocacy.

Objectives

• To encourage young people to use photography and videography as a medium for story-telling about mental health.
• To capture the lived realities of young people living with, at risk of, and affected by mental health to be displayed as a photography and videography collection.
• To raise awareness of the challenges and problems facing the world’s youth.

Theme: Achieving Green Skills for Youth: Towards Sustainable World through Good Mental Health

• Participants are encouraged to explore the concept of empowering young people and engaging them in activities that significantly enhances their green skills such as the knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable society through the practices of good and healthy mental health states.
• The photographs or videographs should convey the importance of having a good mental health and its interrelation to achieving green skills.

Prize Information

• 1st prize winner will be awarded 300$.
• 2nd and 3rd prize winner will be awarded premium subscriptions to various platforms such as Canva Pro, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video etc.
• Additionally, all the participants and winners will receive a “Certificate of Participation and Appreciation” for this competition.

Competition Details

• Open call: The competition will be open to all individuals who wish to participate, regardless of their age or background or country, to be inclusive. The entries can be either photographs or videographs.
• Photographs: Can submit 4 to 10 photos. It can either be in JPEG, PNG or pdf format.
• Videographs: The duration of the video should be 3-5 minutes. It should be in MP4.
• They can use any camera SLR, compact, disposable/film; go pro, smartphone etc to make their entries.

For more information, visit Y-PEER Asia Pacific Center.