Opportunity: 2020 Thompson Reuters Foundation's Bigger Picture Photography Competition on Covid-19

 Could your picture tell a thousand words? Then the camera is in your hands. The photo competition is open to anyone with a passion for turning the lens on the real lives behind the headlines, and an ability to capture the most powerful images of the pandemic’s impact on everyday people.

Application Deadline: October 28th 2020 https://bit.ly/2YtrzqJ

Could your picture tell a thousand words? Then the camera is in your hands. The photo competition is open to anyone with a passion for turning the lens on the real lives behind the headlines, and an ability to capture the most powerful images of the pandemic’s impact on everyday people.

Objectives

Encouraging awareness of the human impact of COVID-19 by leveraging and scaling the crucially informative role of citizens

reporting on these issues;

Shedding light on the many underreported dynamics relating to COVID-19; and

Motivating citizen journalists and photography enthusiasts to report on the human impact of COVID-19

Award Prizes

• All the recipients of the Award (the “Winners”) will receive an Award certificate.

• Winners will be granted attendance to an online photojournalism masterclass run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. This masterclass will allow the Winners to enhance their skills as well as identify how to best capture images to tell stories.

• Each Winner will also each be offered the unique opportunity to work alongside the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news team on a piece of photojournalism content selected by the Thomson Reuters Foundation that will be shared via the Reuters wire, a global distribution news network.