Climate Visuals, in collaboration with Communications Inc, have launched the Ocean Visuals project to catalyse a new evidence-based collection of impactful and truly diverse ocean and coastal climate imagery.
Visual media is vital to connect with audiences, but ocean, coastal and climate imagery is often ineffective, inaccessible or absent. Communicators and editors resort to using the same familiar metaphors, poorly representing people’s experiences and connecting with a very limited sector of the world’s population – missing a vital opportunity for real and lasting public engagement.
Toby Smith, Climate Visuals Programme Lead and Media Liaison
The Ocean Visuals open call details:
- Free to enter from 1 – 14 September 2022
- 100 photographs will be selected by a diverse and independent jury, based on the evidence-based brief provided
- $1,000 USD license fee per photograph selected
- New image collection made freely available to the media, non-profit sector and education sector in the’ Ocean Super Year’, the run up to COP27 and beyond into the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
Find further details on the photography brief and competition registration on the Climate Visuals website below.
Are you telling new ocean-climate stories through photography? Enter this open call for ocean-climate photography and join us in improving ocean-climate communication worldwide.
— OneOcean (@OceanFlotilla) September 5, 2022
Selected photographs will be licensed for $1000 USD.
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Ocean Visuals is funded by Erol, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Macdoch Foundation/NPT Transatlantic.