Applications call for Global Peace Photo Award 2020

The Global Peace Photo Award (formerly the Alfred Fried Photography Award) is organized by Edition Lammerhuber in partnership with Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG), UNESCO, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association, International Press Institute (IPI), German Youth Photography Award and the World Press Photo Foundation.

Aims

The award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. Moreover, the award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.

Prizes 

The top five listed photographers will be awarded the Alfred Fried Peace Medal. The Peace Image of the Year will receive €10,000. In addition to that, the winning picture will be on display for one year at the Austrian Parliament and will be included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian Parliament.

Eligibility

• The award is open to all photographers from anywhere in the world.
• Digital submissions must be saved as .jpg, with more than 3000 pixels on the longest side. Images must not include any embedded marks, logos, names or borders.
• Candidates can submit as many entries as they wish.
• Candidates can make changes to their entries or delete them at any time prior to the deadline. They need to finalize and submit the entry before the entry deadline.
• For each submission (single image or story) candidates must have a caption in English, the maximum length of 2000 characters.

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