Event

Submission Deadline: The Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development

Event Type: Call for Submissions

Date: 01.10.09

Location: International

Details

How do you see development? How can you portrait the human face of the development processes? How do you show that development initiatives and programmes improve the lives of people?

The Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development launched on 1 June 2009 aims to promote and showcase visual examples of people winning the battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization by bringing light and life into the above questions.

Brasilia, 1 June 2009 — Development is often portrayed through images of desolation and despair despite the immense number of initiatives, programmes, ideas and partnerships that are changing the lives of millions of people throughout our developing and transitional world. To raise the awareness of these global successes in the development process and share innovative and successful actions, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) in collaboration with UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) launches the Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development. Partners from all continents are supporting the campaign – from Brazil to Kazakhstan; New York to Abuja; Sri Lanka to Haiti; the São Paulo Metro Company to the Calvary School in Singapore. United Nations Online Volunteers are supporting the IPC-IG in the organisation of this campaign.

Everyone can and is strongly encouraged to participate in this global effort and contribute with a photograph. All photographs should fit into one of the campaign’s fourteen different thematic areas related to the Millennium Development Goals, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, expanding access to food, clean water, sanitation, education and health services for the poor, and promoting women's leadership and equal opportunity in education and employment. It is very simple to upload your photograph onto the campaign’s website.

Some of the key outcomes of the campaign will include a photography gallery to be permanently displayed prominently at the IPC-IG office and open for public viewing; a series of photography exhibitions in several cities around the world; and a photography database that will be shared with the campaign partners and several United Nations agencies and departments.

Join us now in showing development through a different lens! Let’s promote and share successful development initiatives! Contribute! Participate!

Visit the campaign website in all United Nations languages and Portuguese.

Download the campaign logo and add it to your website. You can also download the posters in all UN languages and Portuguese.

Sponsored by: Aids Portal, Agence Française de Développement, Atitude Brasil, Bolsa Família, Cavalry, Government of Honduras, Government of Malawi, Ideas for Development, Panos London, Secretariat for Strategic Affairs (Presidency of the Republic, Brazil), The Environmental Foundation for Africa, Transparency International, UNDP, UNIC Rio, UNIFEM, UN Volunteers, Voluntários em Ação

Contact:
Mr. Francisco Filho

Tel: +55 61 2105-5036

For more details, visit the event web page.