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HUAWEI’S EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BRAND XMAGE AWARDS 2025

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Application Deadline:  15 September, 2025

LOCATION: China

XMAGE is Huawei’s exclusive photography brand and initiative. It crafts powerful visual experiences based on advanced software, device, and chip technologies, cloud capabilities, and a distinct aesthetic vision, showcasing the power of image.

ELIGIBILITY:

XMAGE is the Huawei platform for smartphone photographic excellence, the window through which we celebrate amazing photos & videos captured on Huawei devices from around the world. It empowers mobile photographers to craft and share breathtaking visuals that demonstrate artistry from different perspectives, uniting us all in celebrating the power of image.

Entry is FREE

Any Huawei phone user from around the world can participate. However, submissions that have won an award in any contest or have been published in a public periodical will not be accepted for submission.

Submissions are to be made on the official XMAGE Awards website (https://consumer.huawei.com/en/campaign/xmage/) and other sub-arenas such as HUAWEI Community, My HUAWEI. To submit your work on the XMAGE Awards website, you are required to log in with your HUAWEI ID and authorize us to use your HUAWEI ID to uniquely identify you so that you can upload, view, and manage your submissions. We will collect your HUAWEI ID, user name, and profile picture.

Submissions shall also be made on Instagram. Upload your work with the hashtag #HUAWEIXMAGE and follow @huaweixmageawards to participate. You must set your profile page to “Public” and allow non-followers to send you direct messages during the Campaign for the Organizer being able to contact you. When your work is featured on our channel or shortlisted, we kindly request you to provide us with your Instagram username. This will allow us to properly credit you in our post.

All submissions to the XMAGE Awards must be created with Huawei phones. There are no restrictions on when you take the photos/videos or which model of Huawei phone you use.

Each participant can upload a maximum of 30 works, which can consist of a photo, a group of photos, or videos. Works not approved will not be counted.

BENEFIT:

XMAGE 100 – Grand Prize Winner (3)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 10,000

An electronic certificate

XMAGE 100 (97)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 1,500

An electronic certificate

The aforementioned creation funds are pre-tax amounts.

The organizer has the right to modify the number of winners.

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2025 CALL FOR ENTRIES: 29TH LUIS VALTUEÑA INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

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Application Deadline: Friday, 10th October, 2025

LOCATION: Spain

Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 29th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices, and/or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them. If you are interested in participating in this call for entries, please click here for the terms and conditions (also available in Spanish and French).

ELIGIBILITY:

Theme: The submitted images must narrate a story related to one of these topics: health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and/or migrant populations.

Entry is free

The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers of any nationality, aged 18 or older.

This year, entries must be submitted exclusively in digital format via the Picter website. If you are not yet registered on the platform, you will need to create an account in order to participate. You will only be able to submit a single application. Once your submission is successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation email.

Each entrant must submit the following documentation:
Personal and contact details

Biography (max. 1500 characters)

A series of between 5 (minimum) and 10 (maximum) photographs, in colour and/or in black and white

Description of the project presented, including captions

Important: The author’s name must not appear in the description of the project, in the captions, or in the name of the files.

For entry requirements or further information, please refer to the contest rules.

BENEFIT:

€6,000 Cash prize *View Terms and Conditions

In addition, the winner and the finalists will also have their work published in the catalog and displayed in the collective and itinerant exhibition that Médicos del Mundo Spain shall produce.

The organization will cover the travel and lodging for two consecutive nights of the chosen entrants to attend the award ceremony and inauguration of the exhibition.

Médicos del Mundo is committed to widely promoting the chosen images and their authors for at least one year through press releases, meetings with the media, and ad hoc dissemination materials, among other forms.

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