Deadline: 8 June 2025
The ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or award is granted in recognition of the work of a professional photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue related to forced migration in situations of armed conflict.
Theme
- The subject chosen this year is “Civilians, the primary victims of armed conflicts”.
Award Information
- The winner will receive a prize amounting to 8000€.
Eligibility Criteria
- The contest is open to professional photographers attached to press agencies or media and to independent professional photographers.
- A previous winner of the “Humanitarian Visa d’Or Award – ICRC” may not enter the competition again for a period of five years from the year of the award.
- The 2025 edition of the ICRC’s Humanitarian Visa d’Or award will reward a professional photojournalist who has been able to illustrate the fate of civilians in armed conflicts.
- Any report shot more than 2 years ago will not be accepted, as it would not be sufficiently linked to current events.
- The participation to this contest automatically involves the free transfer of the proprietary rights of these photographs to the ICRC and VISA POUR l’IMAGE – Perpignan in connection with the promotion of this reward (the organizers of this contest agree to mention the name of the photographer winner every time the photographs are used).
Application Requirements
- Each participant may present a report containing between seven to ten photographs. Each participant is allowed to present one report only. Should the report include less than seven photographs or more than ten, the participant will be automatically eliminated from the contest.
- This application file must include:
- The application form duly signed.
- A curriculum vitae.
- A photoreport file containing two editings:
- 1 editing with low resolution pictures (max size for each pic: 3Mb) .jpg only.
- 1 editing with high resolution pictures, TIFF (10 Mb for each pic), in the event of a paper print should the photographer be the winner.
- The pictures must be named and numbered in the desired order.
- A word page with a text, of 15 lines, that presents the subject, the date and the place where the pictures were taken, with no mention of any name or agency.
- A word page with the photos’ captions (maximum 2-3 lines each) with the corresponding numbers.
For more information, visit Visa Pour l’Image.
