Are you a professional or amateur photographer or simply passionate about camelids? Join the International Year of Camelids (IYC) Photo Contest and help spread the word about the importance of these heroes of deserts and highlands!
An international professional jury composed of photographers, photo editors, and camelid experts will select an overall winner. The four runners-up will go to a public vote on social media.
Photos should illustrate one or more of the following aspects:
- Camelid products and services;
- Camelids, livelihoods and economic growth;
- Camelids, food security and nutrition;
- Camelids and culture;
- Camelids and women’s empowerment; and
- Camelids, climate change and resilience.
Join the contest!
Step 1: Choose up to five of your own photos and prepare captions.
Step 2: Fill in and submit a registration form for each photo by 28 February 2025.
Step 3: Stay tuned to find out who the winners are!
Bonus step: Share your photos on social media with the hashtags #YearOfCamelids and #IYC2024.
- Participants should be 18 years old or above.
- Each participant can submit up to five photographs by filling in and submitting the registration form. Each photo should be submitted separately by filling in the form.
- Submissions will be accepted only in English, French, and Spanish.
- Participants must own the copyright and must have taken the photographs themselves. The photos must have been taken after 1 January 2021.
- Each submitted photograph must have a title and a short description/caption explaining what the photo represents, considering one or more of the aspects mentioned, and where/when the photo was taken.
- Participants are invited to post their photos on social media accounts, using the IYC hashtag/s: #YearOfCamelids and #IYC2024 and tagging @FAO.
- Photographs must be submitted in .jpeg format. Images should be of high quality (e.g. 300 dpi and 5000 pixels and a file size that does not exceed 2 MB). Both colour and/or black and white images will be accepted.
- The material must not violate or infringe third party's rights including but not limited to trademark, privacy, publicity or other intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.
- The submission must not contain dates, texts, brand names, logos or trademarks.
- The IYC Secretariat respects photographers’ rights and does not claim copyright over images submitted to this contest. The author retains full copyright for each entry. Whenever the image is published by FAO, the author will be credited.
- By participating in the contest, the contestant grants FAO permission to use the image in FAO material and on FAO digital channels for non-commercial purposes. FAO does NOT own the copyright and authors are free to use the image for other purposes at their choosing.
- The top five photos will be posted by FAO corporate social media accounts, and the four runners up will undergo a popular vote to determine the second prize winner.
- Any questions regarding the photo contest should be submitted to [email protected].
- The first prize winner of the photo contest will be invited to a camelid event at FAO headquarters in Rome (Italy). Travel expenses will be covered for the winner, according to FAO rules.
- Winners will be announced on the International Year of Camelids website in April 2025.
- Winners will be promoted on FAO social media, by FAO offices around the world and partner websites.
- All five winners will receive a certificate of recognition and a surprise gift bag.
- In the event that any of the selected winner(s) of any prize (that is/are eligible in accordance with these Contest rules and/or the General Rules, Copyright and Privacy) cannot be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and it will be in the sole discretion of FAO to choose whether to award the prize to another eligible entry.
- When winning photos are published, only the first and family name will be published. No other personal information about the contestants will be published or shared.
- Read more about the General Rules, Copyright and Privacy here:
- FAO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective
spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not
related, are not eligible to enter the contests. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion. - Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the
judging committee are not eligible to compete. - FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions which are not consistent with the Organization’s values and
guiding principles. - FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and
address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules,
including these Rules, Copyright and Privacy, or who tampers with the entry process. - FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any
submissions in relation to the contest. - No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any
material. - FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or
for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without
limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any
human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction. - By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be
processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional
activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the
entrant's identity, postal address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the entrant's eligibility to participate
in the contest. - Nothing in these General Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed or statements made in
relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of
FAO. - Entrants must own the copyright of the material they submit to the contest. If the material contain images of a
person or persons, entrants must have obtained the permission of those persons for submission of their material
to the contest as well as the use of the material by FAO for the purposes described in these General Rules. - The entrant declares that, to the best of his/her knowledge, no third party can claim any rights on the material
submitted. The entrant also confirms that each person depicted in the material has granted permission to be
portrayed as shown. - FAO will not seek additional approvals in connection with the use of the material and it will not be responsible for
any claim or complaint alleging violation of the rights of third parties. - Copyright of the material remains with the entrants. By entering the contest, entrants grant an irrevocable,
perpetual, worldwide exclusive license to FAO, for non-commercial purposes, to reproduce, distribute, display and
create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the contest and the promotion
of FAO’s work, in, amongst others:
GENERAL RULES
COPYRIGHT AND PRIVACY
- FAO corporate website: www.fao.org;
- corporate videos or digital recordings to illustrate the work of the Organization;
- printed FAO publications, brochures or posters.
- Social media channels, including promotion of the contest itself;
- any other media used by FAO to communicate.
Jury and public vote
The jury will be comprised of an independent group of individuals with different areas of expertise in photography, science and scientific communication. The jury will select the top five photos and overall winner. The other four runners up will be posted on Facebook and a popular vote will select the second prize.