Submissions are invited for Environmental Photography Award 2025 by Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. The last date of submission is November 3, 2024.

About the Foundation

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation is a global non-profit organisation committed to progressing Planetary Health for present and future generations.

Award Details

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Environmental Photography Award was launched in 2021, in honour of the Foundation’s 15th anniversary. This annual award was created with the aim of rewarding photographers who put their creativity to good use in raising awareness on Earth protection.

It has the dual purpose of celebrating the incredible beauty of our planet and highlighting the environmental challenges we face through five categories: Polar Wonders, Into the Forest, Ocean Worlds, Humanity versus Nature, Change Makers: Reasons for Hope.  

Photographic art, with its immediate and universal language, represents a formidable vehicle for raising awareness. It reinforces, in a virtuous way, the process of awareness on major environmental issues, such as biodiversity, climate and the ocean.

Environmental photographers can encourage us to change, to innovate, to invent sustainable solutions in order to better rethink our lives and our economies. They reveal a real “field of possibilities” for new generations who aspire to a more harmonious relationship with Nature.  

Categories

  • Polar Wonders.
  • Into the Forest.
  • Ocean Worlds.
  • Humanity versus Nature.
  • Change Makers: Reason for Hope.

Eligibility

  • The Award is global and open to photographers of all nationalities who will be aged 18 or over on 3rd November 2024.  
  • It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that they have read and will abide by these rules and Photocrowd’s Terms and Conditions. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to these rules, that their entry complies with these rules, and that they will be liable to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Photocrowd and their licensees in respect of any damages or losses incurred as a breach of the rules.  
  • Employees or agents of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Photocrowd, their families or other persons connected with this promotion (excluding the sponsors) are not eligible to enter. Also, ineligible to enter are any persons benefiting (on the day of the submission of the photograph(s)) from the Foundation’s support, either directly or indirectly.  
  • Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. Use of a false name or other false details will result in disqualification.  

Submission Rules

  • Entry is free of charge. Photographers can enter up to 5 images in each of the 5 categories, allowing therefore for a maximum of 25 images in total. If any photographer is found to have entered more than 5 images into a category, all their entries will be invalidated and removed from judging.  
  • Images (including similar images taken from the same series of photographs) are eligible for entry even if they have previously won a national or international photography award (including winner, runner-up, highly commended or equivalent) or are entered into a competition where the results are pending.
  • Submitted images must have been shot within the past 5 years. The shoot date must be no earlier than 1st September 2019.  
  • The same image cannot be entered into multiple categories. Please check the brief for each category to enter the image in the most relevant one. Images can only be shortlisted by the Jury in one category.  

Prizes

Grand Prize Winner (Environmental Photographer 2025)

  • Chosen by the jury among the 5 category winners.
  • 5,000 € grant.
  • Invitation (including travel and accommodation) to the opening ceremony of the exhibition in the Principality of Monaco.

Category Winners

1,000 € grant for each of the 5 category winners.

Public Award & Students’ Choice

  • To be chosen for each across all categories.
  • 500 € grant for the Public Award winning image as well as an invitation (including travel and accommodation) to visit the SEK International University’s Amazon research station in Ecuador.
  • 500 € grant for the Student’s Choice winning image.

For all shortlisted photographers

  • Featured in the Environmental Photography Award 2025 exhibition in Monaco and on its international tour.
  • Published in, and receiving two complimentary copies of the Environmental Photography Award 2025 book.

How to Submit?

Interested participants can submit online via this link.

Submission Deadline

The last date of submission is November 3, 2024.

Click here to view the official notification of Environmental Photography Award 2025 by Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.