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East African Photography Award 2025 - Stories
The East African Photography Award (EAPA) is an annual competition open to citizens of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Photographers are invited to submit multi-image stories on subjects they find meaningful; from everyday life and personal experiences to broader social, cultural, or environmental themes.
The award was created to spotlight documentary photography from an East African perspective, promoting storytelling that reflects the region’s diverse realities and identities. EAPA seeks to encourage photographers to document the rapid changes happening around them; whether cultural, socio-political, environmental, or technological, and how these shifts affect individuals and communities.
By centering East African voices, the award contributes to building a more representative and nuanced visual archive of the region, rooted in local insight and lived experience.
By centering East African voices, the award contributes to building a more representative and nuanced visual archive of the region, rooted in local insight and lived experience.
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Status: Open
Deadline
July 20, 2025 (11:59 PM, EDT)
Time remaining:
14
Days
13
Hours
5
Minutes
CURRENT TIME: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 10:55:12 AM EDT
Submission
Costs
Free with active membership (Standard, Plus, Prime, or Guild)
Brief & Application Procedure
RULES & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- All submissions are made via a Story created from the Visura open call interface.
- Image size: 6000px on the longest dimension. (sRGB, 200 dpi, jpg format)
- The contest is restricted to citizens of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, 18 years of age or older.
- All entries must have been worked on in the last year, from August 2024 up until the July 20th 2025 deadline. This will be confirmed via EXIF data.
- Each entrant can submit up to 2 stories. For each story a minimum of 10, and a maximum of 20 photographs should be submitted.
- ENTRY IS FREE.
- The jury will select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Prizes will be awarded for each place.
- The jury reserves the right not to award any or all prizes. All decisions by the jury will be final.
- By entering the competition the photographer confirms that they are the original author of the image(s) and that they own the rights to all the images they enter into this competition, or if they are an employee of a media organisation they have all necessary permissions from their organisation.
- Winning entries with explicit permission from the photographer can be part of our annual exhibition.
- Employees of FOTEA/UPPA, Visura, the judging panel and any family members cannot enter the contest.
- Employees of Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES), FOTEA/UPPA and the judging panel will not enter into dialogue with entrants.
- With the submission the photographer agrees to the Terms and Conditions.
TECHNICAL GUIDELINES
- Only photographs in digital form will be accepted. There should be no watermarks, identifying marks or names of authors written on the photographs.
- Make sure for each photograph submitted you have a printable copy saved as highest quality jpg, at 300 dpi, minimum 3000 pixels on the longer side.