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prestigious photography competition opens in
September.
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- The
15th Greenstorm Global Photography Festival will
award the highest-ever cash prize of
10,000 USD for the winning
picture in a photography competition.
- There
are several cash awards worth 30,000
USD to be won for photographs of
beautiful landscapes taken either with a regular
DSLR/Mirrorless camera or a mobile phone.
- The
competition opens on 1 September
2023, with a submission deadline of
30 September 2023.
- Charlie
Waite (UK), Emily Garthwaite (Iraq), Latika
Nath(India) and Len Metcalf (Australia) are the
esteemed Jury members.
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Bonn
& Kochi, 1 September 2023 - The
highly anticipated Greenstorm Global Photography
Festival opens Friday, 1 September 2023, and
will run until 22 April 2024. Its unprecedented
total prize pool of 30,000 US dollars raises the
Greenstorm Award to the pinnacle of nature
photography competitions.
The top
two awards for photos taken with a mirrorless
camera (DSLR) and with a mobile phone will
receive cash prizes of 10,000 and 3,000 United
States dollars (USD), respectively.
Under
the theme of "Beautiful Landscapes”, this year's
festival celebrates the beauty of the land
around us to foster dialogue and inspire action
in landscape restoration. Photographers can
submit their entries via the competition portal
www.greenstorm.green from 1 – 30 September
2023.
Greenstorm Foundation and the G20
Global Land Initiative Coordination Office of
the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) have joined forces to
organise the 15th Edition of the Greenstorm
Global Photography Festival.
The
photography festival is part of a series of
activities undertaken by the G20 Global Land
Initiative to raise global awareness about and
interest in land restoration.
Dr Muralee
Thummarukudy, Director of the Global Land
Initiative Coordination Office, emphasised the
significance of the theme, stating: "By focusing
on the beauty of the landscapes around us, the
theme calls us to reflect on how people and
nature are connected and the pivotal role we
must play going forward to safeguard, restore
and preserve our beautiful landscapes for
benefit and that of future
generations."
The ambition of the G20
Global Land Initiative is to reduce land
degradation by 50 per cent by 2040. The leaders
of the G20 countries established the Initiative
in 2020 under Saudi Arabia’s
Presidency.
Dileep Narayanan,
Managing Trustee of the Greenstorm Foundation,
expressed great pleasure in the partnership and
said: "We are honoured to partner with the G20
Global Land Initiative for this edition, which
recognises the power of visual storytelling to
raise environmental consciousness among youth
effectively."
"This partnership
signifies our commitment to raising awareness
about the importance of land and nature
conservation. We firmly believe that through the
power of photography, we can foster a deeper
appreciation and inspire positive change for our
natural world," he added.
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Winning
photograph of the Greenstorm Global
Photography Award 2022 by Phan Thi Khanh
from Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. | |
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About Greenstorm
Foundation
Greenstorm Foundation is a Global Creative
Conservancy formed to impact an appropriate
attitudinal shift toward environment
conservation among the youth. Using the
remarkable power of creativity, this green
initiative from Kerala, India, has reached 75
nations worldwide and has inspired over 12
million young minds since its inception in 2009.
The Greenstorm initiative began as a CSR
initiative of Organic BPS, a brand-purpose
consultancy.
Greenstorm Foundation is a registered
(not-for-profit) public trust in India. Anil K
Menon, Dileep Narayanan and George Korah are the
trustees of the Foundation. Over these years,
Greenstorm has also won many major national and
international recognitions, including the
prestigious IAA Olive Crown
Award | |
About the G20 Global Land
Initiative
The G20 Global Land
Initiative was set up in 2020 by the leaders of
the Group of Twenty of the largest economies in
the world (G20), under the Presidency of Saudi
Arabia. The ambition of the leaders is to
achieve a 50 per cent reduction in degraded land
by 2040. The G20 Global Land Initiative is
hosted by United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification. | |
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