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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