IAHPC offering prizes for best photos! Enter contest to win
Enter the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) photo contest and be eligible to win prizes! In addition to giving money away, we also wish to see palliative and hospice care through your eyes!
Visual storytelling is the heart of the IAHPC Newsletter. Photos showcase our members’ practices and experiences around the world, inspiring and informing the global IAHPC community.
The IAHPC Photo Contest is yet another opportunity for this community to come together virtually, when we cannot be together in person, by sharing photos that may be published in the IAHPC Newsletter and on the website. Your photo also gives you and your organization global visibility.
Images should depict clinical practice, teaching, caregiving, daily life, or other settings that support one of the four IAHPC thematic areas of work:
- Advocacy, for integration of palliative care into primary health care, within the spectrum of universal coverage, and for adequate access to essential palliative care medications.
- Education, to develop the skills of primary health care and palliative care workers.
- Research, to gather evidence to inform global development of palliative care.
- Information dissemination, to educate stakeholders and amplify impacts where change is happening, to increase demand for palliative care, and inspire further change.
For example, photos may show patients, clinicians, volunteers, caregivers, pharmacists, students in the classroom or online sessions, government representatives, or community members. We are particularly interested in images that reflect the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic may have brought on yourself, on patients and families, students, and colleagues. Your imagination is the limit.
The IAHPC will provide the following prizes:
- 1st Place: a 2-year membership extension and US $300.
- 2nd Place: a 1-year membership extension and US $200
- 3rd Place: a 6-month membership extension and US $100
Criteria:
- Applicants must be IAHPC members in good standing. Not a member yet? Join IAHPC!
- Up to 3 photos may be submitted per person (photos must be high resolution, preferred 1920 x 1080 pixels or higher).
- The person submitting the photo(s) must own the copyright. (You automatically own the copyright to any photo that you take.)
- You must have permission from the people who can be identified in your photo(s), as per the IAHPC media release form (link below).
- Participants must submit their photo(s) by completing the media release form for adults and, if children can be identified, the form for minors. (State “Photo Contest” in the comment section, and be sure to include descriptions of the images!)
A group of IAHPC staff and board members will judge the submitted photos, which will be anonymized so that images will be judged solely on merit.
The deadline to submit your photos is August 31, 2021. The winners will be announced at the end of September.
Photos may be included in the IAHPC Newsletter whether or not they are selected for a prize. Appropriate credit will be given to the photographer. The IAHPC may contact the applicants for the backstory of their photo being shared in the newsletter.
We look forward to seeing the palliative care world through your eyes!