#VisionFirst! Photo Competition – until 10 October 2019

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Deadline: 10 October 2019. The #VisionFirst! Photo Competition, is the fourth photo competition organised for World Sight Day. The competition is open to Professional and Amateur photographers and is organised by IAPB.

Event History
This competition started in 2015 and is held every year for World Sight Day. The competition has seen activity from over 600 participants, from 200 organizations in 89 countries.

What Makes this event different?
This event helps make a difference through photography by bringing about awareness of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.

After the immense success of our three successive photo competitions, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) invites amateur and professional photographers from around the world to join us in celebrating the diversity of stakeholders and patients we reach. With support from Bayer Health Care, the theme for the international Photography Competition this year is ‘Vision First’.

Theme
We know now that 1.2 billion people don’t have access to glasses. Over 3 out of 4–more than 75%–of the world’s vision impaired are avoidably so. The photo competition is a great tool to draw a spotlight on eye care issues across the globe and those who are vulnerable to sight conditions—young children, persons with diabetes, older people, people with limited access to health services etc. With the theme, “#VisionFirst!”, IAPB encourages you to share images that highlight the impact, and strength of our partnerships and most importantly highlight the importance of vision everywhere in the world.

World Sight Day (10 October 2019) is an international day of awareness about avoidable blindness and its prevention and is an important advocacy and communications opportunity for the eye health community. It is a great time to engage with a wider audience – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics – and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention.

Prizes:

– Professional category: USD 1000 and
– Amateur category: Canon 1200 D DSLR

Photo Contest Website: https://photocomp.iapb.org/