Documentary Photo Contest to Face Climate Crisis from SDN

The Social Documentary Network ‘SDN’ is inviting professional and amateur photographers all over the world to participate in the ZEKE Award for Systemic Change and contribute to finding Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Submissions must address solutions to the climate crisis that communities across the planet are embracing to lower global warming and prevent climate change from causing cataclysmic destruction of the global human community.

All winning photos will be viewed on the SDN website. Once your exhibit is accepted, it will remain live on the SDN website for one year.

• Entries must be documentary. This is defined broadly, but an important quality is that the intent is to tell a visual story about the subject of your photographs. If the work is more about you as an artist, then it would not be appropriate for SDN or ZEKE magazine. Composited photographs (photo collages) are accepted only if all elements come from photographs that you have taken.
• ​All entries must have between 6 and 30 photographs related to the competition’s theme. The submission may also have a multimedia component to supplement the still images. Submissions must have an abstract to provide context (180 words maximum) and captions to accompany the photographs.
• ​Additional text about the situation being documented may also be entered, as well as a bio of the photographer, information on organizations working with affected communities, and other relevant information. Photographs must have been taken after January 1, 2013 unless the work is part of a long-term project that began prior to 2013 and continues to the present.
• ​All work must be submitted via the Social Documentary Network website. For specific image specifications, click here. Images must be a minimum of 1500 pixels in one dimension.
• ​All entries are automatically and simultaneously submitted for exhibition on the Social Documentary Network website and must follow all rules and regulations regarding exhibits on SDN.

About SDN:-

Social Documentary Network (SDN), founded in 2008, is a global community of documentary photographers, editors, curators, NGOs, students, journalists and others who believe in the power of visual storytelling to build understanding and appreciation for the complexities, nuances, wonders, and contradictions that abound in the world today. Since its founding, the SDN website has featured more than 3,500 exhibits by nearly 2,500 photographers from all corners of the globe. It also creates gallery exhibitions, educational programs, lecture series, award programs, and portfolio reviews.

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