2019 Theme
Slit lamp examination, Monrovia, Liberia submitted by Terry Cooper for #StrongerTogether Photo Competition
We know now that 1.2 billion people don’t have access to glasses. Over 3 out of 4–more than 75%–of the world’s vision impaired are avoidably so. The photo competition is a great tool to draw a spotlight on eye care issues across the globe and those who are vulnerable to sight conditions—young children, persons with diabetes, older people, people with limited access to health services etc. With the theme, “#VisionFirst!”, IAPB encourages you to share images that highlight the impact, and strength of our partnerships and most importantly highlight the importance of vision everywhere in the world.
World Sight Day (10 October 2019) is an international day of awareness about avoidable blindness and its prevention and is an important advocacy and communications opportunity for the eye health community. It is a great time to engage with a wider audience – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics – and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention.
Categories
It is free of cost and open for all,
as long as you own the copyright to your competition entry as it’s author. You can be a amateur or professional photographer, you all are welcome to entry this competition. Submission are invited in two categories. You decide which category for each submission
Please note: "Professional" applies to the quality of the photo and the equipment used (not the setting or qualification of a photographer).
Professional
adjective pro·fes·sion·al \prə-ˈfesh-nəl, -ˈfe-shə-nəl\: relating to a job that requires special education, training, or skill : done or given by a person who works in a particular profession : paid to participate in a sport or activity
Amateur
noun am·a·teur \ˈa-mə-(ˌ)tər, -ˌtu̇r, -ˌtyu̇r, -ˌchu̇r, -chər\: a person who does something (such as a sport or hobby) for pleasure and not as a job.
Prizes
Every week, we will pick “Editor’s picks” and showcase them on IAPB’s social media accounts, Facebook and Twitter. Finally, winners will be selected from these Editor’s picks after World Sight Day (the last day of the competition).The Amateur prize will be a professional camera: Canon 1200 D DSLR camera. The professional prize this year will be a cash prize of USD 1000.
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY PRIZE
AMATEUR CATEGORY PRIZE
Important Dates
The competition will be open till 10 October 2019 – World Sight Day, after which we will pick two winners and 5 runners-up.
Winners will be announced on 14 October 2019 and contacted by mail following the announcement.
Also, The IAPB Council of Members 2019 delegates will be asked to vote for their favourite picture from a shortlist of Editor’s picks.
The winning picture will receive a certificate.
Terms and Conditions
IAPB reserves the right to change the terms of the competition.
- Permission for your entry to be published on IAPB websites including but not limited to iapb.org and IAPB social media sites and you grant IAPB a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual licence under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License to use, republish, edit and/or modify your Competition entry in any/all media for purposes connected with the Competition and as described in these Terms and Conditions (including as described under ‘Prizes’ paragraph above);
- The right to use your name and country of residence for the sole purpose of identifying you as the author of your entry and/or as a winner of the Competition.
Prizes will be given to one person only, and not to organisations or groups of people.
If IAPB has reason to believe your entry is not your own work or otherwise breaches these Terms and Conditions, then IAPB may not consider it and may disqualify it.
#EyeCareEveryWhere Winners and Runners up
The Winners and Runners up of the #EyeCareEveryWhere Photo Competition held for World Sight Day 2018
Outreach cataract operation at Sumbawa Island Indonesia #EyeCareEverywhere
Submitted by: Isna Kusuma Nintyastuti
Optometrist and ophthalmic nurse Khamthan Amath looks for the right prescription for Pa, 49, from the Hmong ethnic minority of Lao PDR. With the right prescription glasses, Pa will be able to see clearly again.//Pa, like many people f rom ethnic minori
Submitted by: Aildrene Israel Tan
Happiness with a pair of glass
Submitted by: Prem Dixit
Not a Farmer Excluded
Submitted by: Germaine
Internal eye check-up
Submitted by: Jose mari vidal s. Valiña
A blind boy does his homework at a very humble school for blind children outside Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (West Africa). The Hands Look (Les Mains Regardent) for those who want to see and learn. The craving for knowledge knows no bounds. The passion for
Submitted by: Antonio Aragon Renuncio
A New Ray of Hope
Submitted by: Anurag Kumar
'Nothing can replace a mother's love when a child is sick, but we try our best to fill that gap." St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital nurses take extra care of Gazan child patients who are often not allowed to come with their primary care givers due to permit
Submitted by: Marie-Claire Boyle
In Pakistan, a school girl poses to have her photo taken.
Submitted by: Mohammad Omer
The reflections of the aircraft windows are seen as Doctor Mark Mannis (2R) carries out a surgical procedure onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital on April 17, 2018 in Trujillo, Peru. Founded in 1982 by ophthalmologist David Paton, Orbis trains eyecare te
Submitted by: Leon Neal
Screening for glaucoma; small, portable and easy-to-use devices allow screening of all at-risk patients at outreach clinics as seen here in rural Uganda
Submitted by: Terry Cooper
A child surprised to see clearly after wearing new glasses
Submitted by: Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu
5 years
It has been an incredible journey. When the photo competition first began in 2015, we never knew how big this would become. Today, with submissions from around the world, the eye care sector have repository of 4000 photos, all generously shared under a Creative Commons licence.
This is an incredible resource and we are grateful for each contribution. Each photo is a step towards advocating for a world in which each of us has access to better eye health services.
Thank you.
About the competition
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. This competition can be a great opportunity to highlight eye health successes and also document unmet need. The World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan (GAP) aims to ensure “universal eye health” coverage, especially to those who are vulnerable and most in need. While there is a lot more to be done, the eye health sector has been working to ensure that good quality eye care reaches the most under-served populations.
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships. Together, we can work towards building support for blindness prevention and to ensure universal eye health. We run the photo competition to mark World Sight Day, an annual day of awareness to mark avoidable blindness and vision impairment.
Sponsor
Bayer: Science For A Better Life
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