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Frontiers in Development: Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 Photo Contest

Jul 02, 2014
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Help us tell the story of how the global community is going to end extreme poverty by 2030. This is your opportunity to visually showcase ways communities and individuals are working towards eradicating extreme poverty. Photos should “tell a story”, preferably an optimistic one, of how we can end extreme poverty by 2030.

Submission Requirements:

  • High-resolution, high-quality photos that are at least 1,024 pixels or larger (tall or wide) or around 300 pixels per inch. Please send us the highest resolution version of the photo you have (at least 1 MB). If you are using Photoshop, please send only level seven or high-compressed photos.
  • Accepted formats: high-quality JPG and JPEG.
  • Photos must be an original submission (submitted by a photographer or with permission).
  • This photo contest is open to any U.S. Government (USG) employee, contractor, or implementing partner.
  • Photos must include a unique and interesting caption, which includes a description of what is going on in the photo, who is involved, where it was taken, and how it is a part of or relates to eradicating extreme poverty.       
  • To submit a photo, please email [email protected] with all the information required above and the attached photo(s). Individuals may submit up to five photos. Submissions with a logo or time stamp visible on top of the photo will not be accepted. Photo submissions due by August 15, 2014.
  • The contest has been broken down into broad categories showcasing how the global community is going to achieve ending extreme poverty by 2030; however, feel free to be creative with your submissions. Please refrain from sending overtly violent or inappropriate content. Additionally, no photos of meetings. The categories include:
    1. Improving Lives Through Education
    2. Preventing and/or Responding to Crisis, Conflict, & Instability
    3. Providing Humanitarian Assistance/Support Disaster Mitigation
    4. Sustaining Stable, Prosperous, & Democratic States
    5. Increasing Food Security
    6. Promoting Global Health
    7. Reducing Climate Change Impacts/Protecting the Environment
    8. Promoting Sustainable Economic Growth
    9. Promoting Gender Equality/Women’s Empowerment
    10. Advancing Science, Technology, Innovation & Partnership
  • The winning photos will be prominently featured as a part of USAID's Frontiers in Development Forum taking place September 18-19, 2014  (eg. on program materials, website, and/or as part of a public display at our Innovation Marketplace).
  • Winners will be notified by email, in addition to being announced through various social media platforms and uploaded to Flickr for everyone to view.
  • USAID/PPL has the right to reproduce your photo in any format, including print products, on the web, and in social media. Please be sure to read the disclaimer below for full details!

Disclaimer:

By submitting a photograph to this competition you:

  1. Declare that you own any copyright for the photograph and it is your original work.
  2. Declare that you have permission to use the visual image of any identifiable individual or building in the photograph for entry into the competition and that the image may be published as stipulated in the photo contest rules.
  3. Agree that USAID and/or other individual USG partners who use the photo will not be responsible for the infringement of any third party rights in the photograph, moral or otherwise, that may arise as a result of your actions or omissions and that you indemnify USAID and/or other individual USG partners against all legal fees, claims, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the contest rules.
  4. Grant any reproduction rights for USAID/PPL use and in doing so agree that USAID may use your photograph for the purposes of the competition and also for future reproduction on websites and literature and other materials and may allow others to do the same at USAID’s discretion (photographers will be credited where appropriate).