Deadline: August 29, 2025
Applications are open for the GHHIN/EJN Extreme Heat Photo Contest 2025. The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), in partnership with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN), is launching a global photography competition to showcase the real impacts of extreme heat, and the ways communities around the world are responding to it.
Heat is a silent killer, and it remains largely invisible and misunderstood. The Network invites photographers and visual storytellers from around the world to help us change that. This competition seeks original, compelling photographs that capture the human, environmental, and infrastructural impacts of extreme heat—as well as the creative strategies communities are using to stay safe and resilient.
Categories
They want powerful images that make the invisible visible. Show what heat looks like where you live. Submissions must fit one of the following categories:
- Heat Impacts on Human Health
- Heat Impacts on Infrastructure & the Economy
- Heat Impacts on the Environment & Animals
- Heat Resilience Strategies
Prizes
While organization rules prohibit monetary prizes, they are offering educational, networking and publication opportunities to contest winners and finalists, who will have their work reach real decision-makers working to address the rising risks of heat to our health. The overall winner and winners for each category will receive:
- Photojournalism masterclass: Contest winners will be invited to a virtual Photojournalism Masterclass with Nicola Vigilanti, a Lyon-based documentary photographer with over 20 years of experience. Blending practical skills with a thoughtful, ethical perspective on capturing human stories, participants will dive into the craft and ethics of documentary photography, covering storytelling, aesthetics, technique, editing, and caption writing in the session. Nicola will introduce his intentional approach to visual storytelling: one that sharpens observation, strengthens narrative structure, and develops a critical eye for building a photographic series or portfolio.
- Internews’ Earth Journalism Network feature: Finalists will have their images featured in a photo essay on heat risk and action around the world, to be produced by GHHIN in partnership with EJN.
- Digital exhibit: Your photo and information will be included in a digital exhibit to be displayed at various UN climate and health conferences.
- Certificate: A personalized certificate of recognition from the Global Heat Health Information Network
- Online promotion: You will be credited for your work whenever it is used, including in features on www.ghhin.org and Network social media, with possible placement on global UN, health, and climate communications channels.
Eligibility
- Entrants must be 18 years or older at the time of submission.
- The contest is open to individuals and groups globally, except employees or direct contractors of GHHIN or the WMO Secretariat.
Submission Requirements
- All photographs must be original, unaltered (beyond basic editing), and submitted in JPEG or PNG format, with minimal compression.
- AI-generated images are not permitted.
- Image size must be at least 4000 x 3000 pixels.
- Submissions must include a title, date, and location, and be accompanied by an photographer’s caption describing what is happening in the photograph and/or providing some context.
- Multiple entries are allowed, but each person may only win in one category.
- Photographs that have previously won awards or been published in online or print publications (excluding personal social media) are not eligible.
- Photos used on personal platforms such as blogs, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Flickr are permitted.
Application
For more information, visit Extreme Heat Photo Contest.
