The Guardian ‘Readers’ voices development photo challenge.’

The Guardian newspaper (UK) continues its Flickr photo projects in 2012 with this interesting challenge. Only open to those residing in developing countries, they are asking people to document one theme over the coming year. Whether education, farming, business or politics – they want people to shoot a series of images regularly over the year [...]

IPA Street Photography Contest

Invisible Photographer Asia is holding a Street Photography competition. The competition opened on 1 April and you can submit up to 3 entries until 1 June. For full submission details click here.

Stop the Wall and It is Apartheid launch video contest

The It is Apartheid Collective and Stop the Wall have announced the launch of the ‘Israeli Apartheid video contest’. Cash prizes will be awarded to winning   submissions, which will also be screened at select film festivals. The contest is open for submissions. Ideally, videos will run under five minutes and should reflect ‘the nature, realities, [...]

4th Annual DoGooder Non Profits Video Awards

See3 Communications and YouTube have launched the 4th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of 2009 found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program—a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. The winners will be featured [...]

Comic books save the planet – Ctrl.Alt.Shift anthology on corruption and political comic exhibition

I love comics, graphic novels and animation so am well happy that Ctrl.Alt.Shift have recognised their potential in social activism. I posted recently that they were running a competition in collaboration with Lightspeed Champion, well now you can check out their exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery on Greek Street in Soho, London. I am just [...]

UNFCCC/CDM Photo & Video contest

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is running two competitions to raise awareness of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The competitions, both photographic and video, are themed around ‘Changing Lives’. For contest rules click here. Submission deadline for both comps is 31 October 2009.

‘Unmasking Corruption’ comic competition

OK, it may look like Ctrl+Alt+Shift are paying me today but it is just that I haven’t checked them out for so long, and they are such a breath of fresh air. Anyway, this is a bit late but worth a mention as you don’t see many comics for social activism. They are running a [...]

Ctrl+Alt+Shift film comp winners with a bit of Darwin and human rights thrown in

Some admirable short films make up the winners of the Ctrl+Alt+Shift film competition. Of particular note are ‘War School’ and ‘No Way Through’ (below) that use the technique of placing the violation in the audiences world. I think this may be just as more powerful in ‘constructed’ still images, and wonder why it is not used more? I like it as it tries to tackle the gap between the audience’s world and that of the ‘distant other’ we can so readily ignore, even though we may extend our pity.

Good 50×70

Launched in 2007, Good 50×70 is an independent, non-profit initiative aiming to ‘promote the value of social communication in the creative community, provide charities with a (free) database of communication tools, and inspire the public via graphic design.’ Good 50×70′s work revolves around an annual contest to design posters confronting seven of the critical issues [...]

CGAP micro-finance photo contest

CGAP, who produce research and policy on financial access for the world’s poor, has launched a photo contest focussing on how micro finance has touched people’s lives. Click here for details. Deadline 14 September.

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