GLF 2015 » Your photos. Our future. Make the connection.

Your photos. Our future. Make the connection.

2015 Photo Competition

There’s one thing you need to know about landscapes: it’s all connected.

But what is a landscape? Is it just a field of green grass, surrounded by snowy peaks and blue skies? It’s more than that—and this competition was people’s chance to show the connections. Everyone could participate, professionals as well as hobby photographers.

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See this year’s winners here.

There’s one thing you need to know about landscapes: it’s all connected.

But what is a landscape? Is it just a field of green grass, surrounded by snowy peaks and blue skies? It’s more than that—and this competition was people’s chance to show the connections!

In a landscape, different elements and actors come together— the air you breathe, the water you drink, the soil that you lay your steps on, the food that you eat, and even you yourself. More than that, landscapes are not only a geographic place – they are connected to important global processes like the Sustainable Development Goals and the new climate agenda that leaders are discussing in Paris.

About the competition

This competition was part of the Global Landscapes Forum that took place in Paris in December 2015, parallel to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21).

The event gathered more than 3,000 participants from all over the world, representing the private sector, NGOs, leading international organizations, government and the general public The online mobilization campaign reached millions through Twitter, Facebook and the event live webcast.

The photos reflect the connections that people found. aiming to show the missing link between a specific sustainable development goal and biodiversity, or climate change.

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To see which pictures the jury selected, click here.

 

Prizes and outcomes:

There were 2 prizes:

The audience’s choice

The picture voted as most popular by the online audience will win this prize. Voting will take place on archive.globallandscapesforum.org and all photographers will receive a direct url to their picture to share it widely with friends and followers.

The picture with the most votes in this category will be announced on Dec 15th, to give the Forum attendees a chance to participate.

The winner of the audience choice will receive a cash prize of USD 1.000.

The jury choice

An international jury evaluated all pictures based on their quality and the relevance to the competition topic (making the connections). Based on their assessment, the jury selected:

  • Winner of the first prize, receiving USD 1,000
  • Winner of the second prize, receiving USD 500
  • Top 20 pictures (including first and second prize winners)
    • Part of the Global Landscapes Forum photo exhibition at the Palais des Congrès, potentially visited by 3,000 people (all pictures were fully attributed to photographers)
    • Use of one selected picture for the Forum’s selfie wall, part of the social media campaign reaching millions worldwide

Terms and conditions

By submitting pictures to the competition, photographers agreed to a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial share-alike license (BY-NC-SA). Competition organizers can use winning pictures for event materials and the exhibition at the Forum. Photographers will be fully recognized on products for which their work is used. The organizers will not use pictures for commercial purposes.

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Selected professional photographers who work for the media had to attach an authorization signed by the representative of the media company which employs them, stating that the photographs have the permission to be published by the organizers of this contest, mentioning the author and the media outlet in which it originally appeared.

Only 3 photographs per participant were permitted.