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Established in 2018, Earth Photo is a world-leading international programme dedicated to engaging with still and moving image makers. Working across multiple genres sharing the prescient issues affecting the climate and life on our planet. Our main objective is to reveal the narratives behind the pictures, informing, entertaining and engaging audiences while encouraging conversations about our world, its peoples, environments, and the changing climate.

Earth Photo 2024 Open Call invites submissions from still and moving image makers from anywhere in the world who have a compelling story to share. 

We are looking for work that communicates about the world around us and makes us think differently, capturing nature, people, place, forests, the environment, lands and seascapes, and the varied impacts of, and adaptations to, climate change.

Submissions can consist of any genre of photography and moving image but must tell powerful stories about our planet: its inhabitants and lands, the dynamic link between environmental and social issues, its exquisite beauty and power, and also its fragility. 

We aim to celebrate the best imagery and storytelling that engages with and represents life on our planet including diverse habitats from forests, cities, deserts, rainforests, urban and managed lands to the impact and challenges facing humans and biodiversity. This can include single images, photographic series and short films which could relate to, but not exclusively:

• Human connection to the natural world, identity and climate
• Sustainable environmental and economic development
• Natural and social value of the environment
• Environmental justice  
• Wildlife, nature, landscapes, plants, biodiversity and ecosystems
• Indigenous knowledge and perspectives   
• Climate emergency
• Health and well-being connected to the environment
• Extreme events, environmental destruction, conflict, flooding, drought, deforestation
• Adapting to the effects of a changing climate
• Natural resources, security and conservation
• Forests and forest ecosystems
• Human and nature’s resilience in adversity 

However, don’t let these definitions hold you back, we are open to new ideas and perspectives regarding the challenges and details related to life on earth. All genres of photographic practice are welcomed from documentary, photojournalism, conceptual, vernacular, fine art, amateur, archive and creative.

The 2024 Earth Photo will offer a range of awards, including the Earth Photo Award 2024 consisting of £1000 for an outstanding photography project that tells a compelling story about life on our planet.

Visit Earth Photo 2024 Open Call for more information and to apply.

Deadline: Thursday 22 February 2024, 5pm.

Earth Photo is co-directed by Forestry England, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Parker Harris.