Muhammad Ali Center Shining a Light International Photography Contest 2025

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, is honored to announce its eleventh annual “Shining a Light” International Photography Contest and subsequent exhibition. This contest and exhibition will be informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #5 (Gender Equality) and #10 (Reduced Inequalities).

This year the Ali Center is asking participants to submit photographs that illustrate the various ways individual women inspire others and build up their communities. At the end of the contest period, the Muhammad Ali Center will produce a documentary-style exhibition featuring approximately 30 selected photographs, beginning on International Women’s Day, Saturday, March 8, 2025.

Contest Theme of Ali Center

“Shining a Light: Iconic Women, from Everyday Life to Global Heroes”

They invite photographers, amateur and professional, to submit photographs that illustrate the various ways in which women can be iconic and create change for good in their communities and beyond. This contest will accept photographs that illustrate the following themes:

• The direct, positive effect women have on their families and communities.
• Women performing acts to make the world a better place, for themselves and for others.
• Women professionals in fields that are typically deemed “male dominant.”
• Internationally known contemporary and historical women leaders, inventors, educators, and advocates.
• Lesser-known contemporary and historical women leaders, inventors, educators, and advocates.

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Prizes of Ali Center

A monetary prize will be awarded directly to contestants by the Muhammad Ali Center in recognition of placing first, second, or third.

• 1st Prize — $1,000
• 2nd Prize — $750
• 3rd Prize — $500

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Eligibility 

• All photographers, both amateur and professional, are welcome to participate.
• Photographers under the age of 18 may participate but must submit a Parental Consent Form along with their submission.
• Each participant agrees to submit only one (1) photograph. Submissions of more than one (1) photograph will result in only the first submission being considered; all subsequent submissions will be discarded.

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