The 2018 USAID / Food for Peace Photo Contest is open for applications. Entries are therefore being invited for the USAID Food for Peace Photo Contest from everyone all over the world.
Help USAID tell the story of Food for Peace and its accomplishments in reducing hunger, poverty and malnutrition—with photos.
Benefits & Rewards: Winning photos will be featured in a USAID story, spotlighted on USAID Flickr and shared across USAID social media accounts!
Who Can Enter USAID / Food for Peace Photo Contest? (Eligibility): Open to everyone anywhere in the world.
Examples of photos they’re looking for:
- Action shots, i.e. a farmer working in a field or person preparing a meal or people using vouchers/cash at markets
- Before & after shots, i.e. child before and after nutrition treatment;
- Beneficiary portraits with a quote in caption
- Cash and voucher programs in action
- People participating in training
- Agricultural innovations to benefit smallholder farmers
- Getting emergency food to hard-to-reach places
- On and off-farm income generation activities
- Women’s empowerment
- Food in the home
How to Enter USAID Food for Peace Photo Contest.
Send entries to ffpcomms@usaid.gov.
Submission Requirements:
- High-resolution, high-quality photos at least 1,024 pixels or larger (tall or wide) or around 300 pixels per inch. File size should be at least 1 MB. For Photoshop, please send only level seven or high compressed photos
- Accepted formats: high-quality JPG, JPEG or PNG
- Photos must be an original submission (submitted by a photographer or with permission by partner (save electronic or printed consent)
- Photos must include a credit: name of photographer and organizational affiliation (if applicable)
- Photos must include a unique, robust caption, which includes a description of what is going on in the photo, names of people in photo (if permission granted), the country in which it was taken, when it was taken (month and year if possible), and how it is related to Food for Peace
- Photos should “tell the story” of Food for Peace and its accomplishments, and should reflect more recent Food for Peace activities (within past two years)
- Submissions are limited to four per individual
- No submissions with a logo or time stamp visible on the photo will be accepted.
For more information on the USAID Food for Peace Photo Contest, download the advert in PDF format HERE.
Application Closing Date
All entries must be submitted before the set deadline of OCTOBER 31, 2018.