The Sustainable Futures Photography Challenge 2023
We are launching our first ever photography challenge. Embrace your inner photographer and show us what Sustainable Futures means to you!
Competition now closed.
Sustainable Futures brings together the unique depth and breadth of internationally leading research at The University of Manchester and builds on The University’s track record of successful interdisciplinary working, to produce integrated and truly sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.
We want you to take a photograph showing us what 'Sustainable Futures' means to you and email it to us at sustainablefutures@manchester.ac.uk before Friday 30th June 2023 (23:59 BST).
You can visit our website to find out more about the research platform Sustainable Futures.
Are your photography skills ready for the challenge?
- All you need to do is take a photograph showing us what Sustainable Futures means to you - this could be absolutely anything, we want to see your creativity go wild!
- Send this photograph with a title to sustainablefutures@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th June 2023 (23:59 BST).
The 6 best entries will win the below prizes.
Each winner will win a £50 Blackwells Bookshop voucher and some University of Manchester and Sustainable Futures premium merchandise (choose from a Reusable Thermal Large Size Mug, Eco Sports Bottle, or Limited Edition Bee Metal Water Bottle - while stocks last). All winners will also receive a selection of Sustainable Futures merchandise (such as: pens and canvas bags).
- Entries must be submitted by Friday 30th June 2023, 23:59 BST
- You can only submit one image.
- University of Manchester students and staff, and external candidates based in UK (sorry, we can’t post the prizes abroad!) are eligible to participate in the competition.
- Any entry must be your original work and it must not infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights. You agree to indemnify the Sustainable Futures against any claim from any third party for any breach of this clause.
- By submitting your photos to Sustainable Futures, participants agree to grant Sustainable Futures free of charge the right to use the photo in any manner and media, including without limitation, the right to publish, adapt, distribute, copy, display or translate in printed or electronic media even if they are not the winning entries.
- Images of individuals under the age of 18 will not be accepted.
- The Sustainable Futures Challenge leads will judge entries.
- Permitted digital adjustments include tone and contrast, cropping, burning, sharpening, dodging, noise reduction, minor cleaning work, HDR, stitched panoramas, and/or within-camera focus stacking using multiple exposure taken at the same location at the same time.
- The image must not contain violence, profanity, sex or direct attacks on individuals or organizations. Any entries deemed offensive will be immediately disqualified.
- Prizes are not exchangeable.
If you require more information, please email sustainablefutures@manchester.ac.uk.
The Sustainable Futures Photography Challenge Entries 2023
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Who does the issue of sustainable futures fall to?
Alexandra Prodan
Rishabh Sharma
A step towards sustainable future. A boon for water treatment, Membranes for future.
Finlay McBride
Fallowfield Tree Bases in Action.
JLB
Cogs
Jennifer Rose
Sustainable futures means my children, grandchildren and their grandchildren enjoying clear skies and secured clean fresh water.
Karolina Kluk-de Kort
This is a photo of my local hill with a Peace monument (Stoodley Pike) at the top – the light was perfect at the time to capture the colours of Ukraine.
Yashi Zheng
In the face of enviornment trials, we unite together, with optimism, we embrace each sky. For we hold the power to mend and heal, to shape a world that's loving and real.
Kavitha Ravikumar
Regenerative Relational Futures
Read through our 6 Challenge Areas for some inspiration!
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Healthy Futures
Managing risks to humans and ecosystems and realising the benefits of transitioning to an environmentally sustainable future.
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Inclusive and Prosperous Futures
Delivering environmental sustainability through a just transition that enables communities to thrive.
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Inspired and Informed Futures
Inspiring students and communities to address sustainability challenges through knowledge and skills required to understand problems and create solutions.
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Net Zero Futures
Delivering rapid emissions reductions and enhancing our ability to remove and store carbon.
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Resourceful Futures
Providing for human needs in ways that sustainably manage finite resources and recover value from rather than lose materials into the environment.
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Resilient Futures
Fulfilling societal functions in the face of accumulating and disruptive environment change at various scales, whilst ensuring, our natural environments are protected, restored and sustained.