Call for Applications: CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition 2024

Calling all professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, content creators, and nature lovers. Gear up to showcase the stunning beauty and critical importance of our planet’s biodiversity through the lens of your camera. Let’s inspire action to protect the richness of our natural world.

CIFOR-ICRAF invite you to capture the essential role of forests and trees in promoting biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and driving restoration efforts.

• Table of Content
• About Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
• CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
• Aim and Benefits of CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
• Requirements for CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)

The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) works at the nexus of five interconnected areas where trees can make a difference in Biodiversity,Climate,Value chains,Food,Equity Trees connect land and climate, farms and forests, economies and resilience, and people and planet. CIFOR-ICRAF connects science with action, creating solutions from the ground up through inclusive partnerships, transdisciplinary research, and demand-driven innovation.... continue reading

CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

Aim and Benefits of CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

• 1st Prize: $500
• 2nd Prize: $400
• 3rd Prize: $300

Requirements for CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition Qualification

• Open to participants aged 18 or older.
• You are encouraged to use the photography equipment with which you are most comfortable.
• Employees of CIFOR-ICRAF are not eligible to enter.

Interview date, Process and Venue for CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

Note the following rules:

• Entries should not include watermarks, signatures, or captions.
• Entries that have previously won other photography competitions will be automatically disqualified.
• Submissions featuring children or minors are not eligible.
• Entries generated using generative artificial intelligence tools or with their assistance are ineligible.
• Images portraying the willful harassment of wildlife will not be accepted.
• Photos taken in ways that cause or have caused environmental damage by the photographer, including capturing images in areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or property managers, are not eligible.
• Photos taken before the year 2010 will not be eligible.

Selection Criteria

All entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges selected by the CIFOR-ICRAF team, who will select at least 30 photos from all eligible submissions received during the competition period. Finalists will be chosen based on the following criteria:

• Creativity (30%)
• Photographic quality (30%)
• Composition (30%)
• Execution of theme (10%)

Application Deadline

How to Apply

The CIFOR-ICRAF team will email all finalists on 6 December 2024.  They will be invited to share a short video message about their photo and work. The best videos will be exhibited in our art gallery on CIFOR-ICRAF’s digital platform  (more information to be announced).

For more details,visit CIFOR-ICRAF website