UNESCO calls on young people around the world, aged 14 to 25 years old, to pick up their cameras and send their best photos to the 5th edition of Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest.
The UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads photo contest is part of the Organization’s Silk Roads Programme and Social and Human Sciences Sector. It promotes photography as a tool for encouraging cultural interaction, helping build mutual understanding, and promoting peace amongst the people living in the regions connected by the Silk Roads.
This year, the themes are Architecture, Monuments, and Urbanism. Entries may focus on either of these while concentrating on mutual influences shared by people along the Silk Roads.
Photographers interested in exploring the theme of Architecture, Monuments, and Urbanism along the Silk Roads might capture the:
The photography contest is open to everyone between 14 and 25 years old, regardless of his or her country of residence, except employees of UNESCO and the donor, China World Peace Foundation, and their family members (parents, children, siblings, and spouses).
There will be two categories:
