In order to enter the contest you have to sign up on the Picter platform and create a photographer profile. 

We do not accept submissions sent via e-mail, Dropbox, WeTransfer or any other way.

April 9th 2024.

Yes, it is. The World Report Award gives no limits in regards to how many works can be submitted by the same person. These are the options:

• You can participate with one reportage in different categories or with different reportages in the same category 
• You can participate in different categories submitting different reportages

Everybody can enter this section with a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 pictures.

Everybody who did not win one or more of the following international contests: World Press Photo, W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, The Pulitzer Prizes, POYi Picture of the Year and World.Report Award before December 31st 2023.

Please note: If you have received an honorable mention or won a Multimedia category in one of the above mentioned awards, you can still enter the Spot Light section.

To enter this section the reportage must have a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 pictures.

Everybody can enter this category. The reportage must have a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 pictures.

This category is aimed to give the opportunity to enter the context to those photographers who did not developed wide projects, but would like to present a short reportage characterized by powerful images.

The participation is open to all photographers with no limitations of any kind. 

Every photographer can send several single shots belonging to the same story. Every image will be judged individually.

This category is open to students currently enrolled in a school of photography or who graduated from a school of photography after December 31st 2022.

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

In order to be considered valid, enrollment certificates or diplomas must be issued by a legally recognized school or by a course of photography that covered more than 60 hours. Workshops or courses of a shorter duration will not be considered sufficient to enter this category.

No, you don’t. This contest is not restricted to unpublished works.

No, there are no restrictions of any kind as regards the period of realization.

Yes, you can. You are allowed to send the same reportage to these categories or different reportages to each of them BUT a project can only be awarded in one category of the contest and a photographer can only be awarded in one category.

Yes, it can. It is allowed to submit the same reportage already submitted to the past editions.

The fee to be paid to participate varies according to the sections:

• REPORTAGE (Master, Spotlight):  30€ for 1 project entered, from the 2° projects onward the fee is increased by 15€.  
• STUDENT: 10€ for 1 project entered, from the 2° projects onward the fee is increased by 5€.
• SHORT STORY: 20€ for 1 project entered, from the 2° projects onward the fee is increased by 10€.
• SINGLE SHOT: 5€ for each picture

Yes, the important thing is to be able to provide, if requested, the negatives, scanned negatives or the original JPG files as recorded by the camera to allow the jury to carry out the verification process.

In any case, it will be the Festival staff who will make the request via email/phone. In the event that, after the request, the staff does not receive the files within the deadline, the jury reserves the right to exclude the reportage.

For more information, see question 15.

No, you can’t. As specified in our guidelines, the World Report Award is reserved exclusively to single photographers. The participation is strictly done on individual basis and excludes all works produced by collectives of photographers.

Picter allows you to upload a picture at a time for this reason if you have a diptych in a single file then it is considered as one picture. You’ll specify that it is a diptych project on the description.

Yes, it’s ok.

In order to participate in the official program of the Festival of Ethical Photograhy you need to win a category (in fact, the prize includes the printing of the exhibit) or receive a special mention (also in this case the organization of the Festival will cover the exhibit printing)

Moreover, if the jury, at its own discretion, believes that some works are of high worth, it will propose, to the organization of the Festival of Ethical Photography, to have them included in the official programme of the Festival 2024.

For this reason, the participation is highly encouraged as some works will be chosen and exhibited in the 2024 edition, enjoying an international visibility.

The photographers will be granted their awards by March 15th, 2025.

No, you can’t. In order to prepare all the material to be submitted, you’ll need to carefully read the award guidelines. By participating in the award, you formally agree to all its rules and regulations.

These FAQs are to be intended as support only.

This category is reserved for nonprofit organizations, foundations, cultural associations, schools of all levels, academies, universities that deal with sensitive issues from a social, educational and environmental point of view and which do not pursue profit-making purposes.

The report will be taken into consideration only and exclusively if presented by the non-profit organization itself. Applications from individual photographers will not be considered valid.

The submitted work must consist of a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 photos.

No, the category accepts submissions only from NGOs.

As a photographer who has developed a project with one of these entities, you can invite the organization itself to participate in the Non-Profit category, supporting them in filling out the form.

The content of the works must be related to the activity, themes or anything of interest to the NGO itself.

Yes, participation in the Non Profit Award is not subject to quantity restrictions.

For technical reasons it is not possible to send multiple proposals with a single registration, therefore a single submission must be sent for each proposal.

Not necessarily. We do not distinguish between professional and amateur photographers; the work can also be produced by NGOs volunteers.

Projects may also be presented when photography is used as an educational, therapeutic or participatory tool, and in which the photographs are taken or used by the subjects to whom the NGO’s activity is aimed.

Participation is free.

A reportage can be submitted to the Non Profit Award even if it has already been sent to one or more previous editions of the Open Call, as long as it has not already been selected and exhibited in a previous editions of the festival.

Yes, it can. The reportage can be produced by collectives of photographers who have worked together or individually in different periods. However, the submission sent has to create a cohesive narrative.