The World.Report Award|Documenting Humanity aims at a new form of social commitment through photography.

The award will give attention to works focusing on people and their social or cultural stories; public or private, minor or crucial, major human tragedies or smaller daily life stories, changes, and immutability.

Every year the contest creates a fresco that tells the stories of our Planet, its great changes, and its intimate and personal relationships connecting human beings.

Award Catagories

Master Awards

This category is open to all photographers, with no restrictions of any kind. Reportages must consist of 20 images minimum and 30 images maximum.

The prize will be:

• 7,000 Euros, before taxes;
• Printing of the exhibit;
• Also, the organization will cover travel and accommodation expenses to travel to Lodi, Italy to present the project.

Spotlight Award

This category is open to all photographers who have never received one of the following awards before April 1st, 2022: World Press Photo, W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, Pulitzer Prize, POYi Picture of the Year, as well as World.Report Award, with exception of the multimedia category.

Reportages must consist of 20 images minimum and 30 images maximum.

The prize will be:

• 3,000 Euros, before taxes;
• Printing of the exhibit;
• Also, the organization will cover travel and accommodation expenses to travel to Lodi, Italy in the month of October to present the project.

Short Story Award

Reportages must consist of 5 images minimum and 10 images maximum.

The prize will be:

• A FUJIFILM X-Pro3 mirrorless camera with an XF23f1.4mm lens
• Printing of the exhibit
• Also, the organization will cover travel and accommodation expenses to travel to Lodi, Italy in the month of October to present the project

Student

This category is open to students currently enrolled in a school of photography as well as who graduated from a school of photography after January 1st, 2021. Reportages must consist of 20 images minimum and 30 images maximum.

The prize will be:

• A FUJIFILM X-T4 mirrorless camera with an XF18-55mm lens
• Printing of the exhibit
• Also, the organization will cover travel and accommodation expenses to travel to Lodi, Italy in the month of October to present the project

Single Shot

This category is open to all photographers with no restrictions of any kind. Every photographer can submit as many works as one likes.

The prize for first classified will be:

• A FUJIFILM X-E4 mirrorless camera with an XF27mm lens
• Printing of the exhibit
• Also, the organization will cover travel and accommodation expenses to travel to Lodi, Italy in the month of October to present the project

The top 30 finalists of the Single Shot category section will have their photos exhibited during the 2022 edition of the Festival.

Theme: Giving attention to values, giving attention to hope.

In a single shot, we are looking for a positive message of hope and progress.