Deadline: 10-Oct-2025
Médicos del Mundo Spain has launched the 29th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award. This award recognizes and promotes powerful images that highlight social inequities, injustices, human rights violations, or the contexts that lead to or combat these issues.
The organization values documentary photography and photojournalism as tools to increase public awareness, encourage citizen engagement, and help eliminate injustice, which it describes as the world’s worst disease.
Submitted photo stories should reflect themes such as health, natural disasters, humanitarian efforts, international cooperation, social exclusion, armed conflict, vulnerable groups, or the conditions faced by refugee and migrant populations.
The winner of the award will receive a gross cash prize of €6,000. Médicos del Mundo will also cover travel and two nights of lodging for selected entrants to attend the award ceremony and exhibition opening.
Photographers of any nationality over 18 years old, including groups, can participate as long as their work has a documentary or photojournalistic approach. Staff of Médicos del Mundo España, jury members, and related personnel or family members are not eligible. Participation is free of charge.
Each participant may submit one entry. Required materials include personal details, a biography, and a photographic series of 5 to 10 color or black-and-white images with captions. A written project description must also be included, and all identifying author information should be excluded from text, captions, and file names.
Photos must be original, taken by the submitting photographer, and at least half should be captured between 2024 and 2025. Submissions from previous editions of the competition are not allowed.
Images must be uploaded in the intended display order, saved in JPEG format with a minimum of 3,000 pixels on the longest edge, and should follow the sRGB or grayscale Gamma 2.2 color model. File sizes must not exceed 3 MB per image, and full metadata should be preserved.
Only single-frame images are allowed. Photomontages, multiple exposures, manipulated images that alter reality, and AI-generated visuals are strictly prohibited. If necessary, organizers may request the original unedited files for verification.
For more information, visit Médicos del Mundo.
