IAFOR Documentary Photography Award 2018

The international

aims to promote and assist in the professional development of emerging documentary photographers and photojournalists.

The award is supported by the International Academic Forum (

) and builds off of the strength of the

. Documentary has a rich history of exposing truths, telling stories, raising awareness and creating discussion.

This year's competition theme is “

”.

As humans, we are not conditioned by fear alone, but instead by a remarkable ingenuity, and a capacity for hope, self-reflection, activism and action. This agency to improve our own lives, and those of others, is the theme of this year’s

, inviting us to consider the ways in which we contextualise and process the past, reimagining ourselves, our relationships, and our environments; driving positive change and reclaiming the future as a time we look towards with hope, and even optimism.

Each applicant may submit 10 to 20 images related to the award theme, either in the form of a photo-essay or as a collection of single images. Images should be saved at 3000 pixels on the longest edge.

The majority of images should have been made during

. However, at the discretion of the judges, images made earlier than

will be allowed if they form part of a photo-essay continued during

.

.