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LumEarth Awards is an international photography festival dedicated to celebrating the power of visual storytelling in shaping a deeper understanding of our planet. Created as a global platform for creative minds, the festival brings together photographers, environmental thinkers, and artists from around the world who use imagery to illuminate the beauty, fragility, and complexity of life on Earth.
Awards & Prizes
Honouring the most powerful environmental photography with a 1,000 USD Grand Prize and Gold, Silver, Bronze distinctions across all categories.
Best Photographer of the Year
1,000 USD
The highest recognition of the LumEarth Photo Awards, granted to a single photographer whose work stands above all submissions in artistic excellence, environmental impact, and storytelling.
- LumEarth Grand Trophy
- Official Certificate of Excellence
- Featured Online Exhibition
- International Promotion
Gold Distinction
Awarded to the top photograph in each category. Gold recipients receive the official LumEarth Gold Badge, certificate, and premium visibility.
Silver Distinction
Presented to exceptional finalists demonstrating visual excellence and compelling environmental storytelling.
Bronze Distinction
Honouring remarkable entries that offer original perspectives and depth to the environmental narrative.
The categories of the LumEarth Awards are designed to celebrate creativity, technical excellence, and meaningful environmental storytelling. Each category invites photographers from around the world to share their unique perspectives on our planet, its beauty, and its challenges.
Whether you capture grand landscapes, intimate details of nature, or powerful human-environment stories, these categories provide a platform to showcase your vision and inspire global awareness.
To help participants submit their work clearly and professionally, please follow these guidelines:
A distinguished panel of photographers, environmental experts, and visual storytellers from around the world, bringing deep experience and artistic vision to ensure fair, thoughtful, and world-class judging.
Jury and Founder
Jury
Jury
Quick Answers to Common Questions
The competition is open to photographers from all countries, aged 18 and over. Both emerging and established photographers, professionals and amateurs, are welcome to submit their work.
All entries are submitted online through the official entry form on lumearthawards.com. Create an account, choose your categories, upload your images, complete the required information, and finalize your submission.
Images should be submitted as JPEG files, at least 3000 pixels on the longest side and no larger than 10 MB per file. Basic adjustments such as exposure, color balance and cropping are allowed, but AI-generated or heavily manipulated images that distort reality are not accepted.
Yes. A single photograph may be entered into more than one category if it is relevant, as long as it is submitted separately for each category and follows the entry rules.
Entries go through a two-step jury process. First, a pre-selection panel reviews all submissions. Then, the international jury evaluates shortlisted images anonymously, scoring them on creativity, technical quality, and environmental relevance to determine the finalists and winners.
Shortlisted photographers are notified by email after the jury has completed its review. Final results are then announced on our website and official social media channels on the date indicated in the Key Dates section.
The Best Photographer of the Year receives a 1,000 USD Grand Prize, along with the LumEarth Grand Trophy and an official Certificate of Excellence. In each category, Gold, Silver and Bronze distinctions are awarded, with winners featured in the LumEarth Online Exhibition and promotional materials.
Yes. Photographers retain full copyright of their images. By entering the competition, you grant LumEarth Photo Awards a non-exclusive right to use selected images for promotional purposes related to the festival, always with proper credit to the photographer.
Yes, there is a small entry fee that helps support the organization of the competition and exhibitions. The current fee structure is listed on the Call for Entries page and may vary by category or number of submitted images.
LumEarth Photo Awards is organized by an independent international team of photographers, curators and environmental advocates dedicated to promoting meaningful visual storytelling about our planet.
For any additional questions, please contact our team at support@lumearthawards.com. We will be happy to assist you.
Still need help? Reach us anytime at support@lumearthawards.com.