2025 5th Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

Deadline: October 10, 2025 

2025 5th Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

Organizer

Mas Retina and Associació Catalana per la Pau (ACP)

Location

Barcelona, Spain (Selected projects will be showcased in a large-scale outdoor exhibition on the streets of Barcelona)

Deadline

  • Call for entries opens: July 17, 2025
  • Call for entries closes: October 10, 2025
  • Winner Announcement: December 10, 2025
  • Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2025 to January 10, 2026

Competition Category

The contest is divided into four thematic categories :

  • Social justice
  • Climate justice
  • Gender justice
  • Economic justice

Eligibility

Unlimited (Open to professional and amateur photographers of legal age and of any nationality) .

  • Submissions must be a series of 15 photographs, with at least seven of the images taken in 2024 and/or 2025 .

Entry Fee

Paid: €5 per project .

Prizes/Awards

  • Overall Winning Project: €3,000 cash prize .
  • Best Entries in Remaining Categories: Three additional prizes of €400 each .
  • Finalists: Ten selected projects will be exhibited on the streets of Barcelona and featured in the official 2025 contest catalog .

Core Introduction

This international photography festival seeks to discover, recognize, and promote outstanding photographic projects that engage with themes of human rights and global justice . Using photography as a tool for social justice, the contest aims to shed light on pressing global issues and their causes, fostering public reflection and stimulating a critical and engaged citizenry .

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