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You are about to spread kindness through your photography!

"No act of kindness is ever wasted." Aesop

To submit your photograph, please:

1. Complete fields as indicated. The photograph is submitted through the top button "Select File".
2. IMPORTANT note on the AI "Inner Visions" category: AI images should ONLY be submitted in the AI "Inner Visions" category! Please do not submit any AI image in the "General" or "Nonprofit" categories.
3. IMPORTANT note on the Nonprofit category: Please only submit your image in the Nonprofit category if the image shows activities being done by a registered non-profit organization, and include the name of the organization in the description text with your image.
4. Don’t forget - the description is an important part of your submission! Where it was taken, what is going on in the image, who the people are and your thoughts on what about kindness or compassion it reflects.
5. Submissions open September 23, 2024 and close November 3, 2024 at 11:59 pm EDT.
6. One photo per submission. Maximum 5 photos per photographer.
7. All submissions must be a high quality digital jpg file.
8. Submissions should be jpg files with max compression rate (12) and at least 2000 Pixels on long dimension at 200 dpi (3000 pixels at 300 dpi preferred) up to 10MB file size.
9. The contest is free to enter.
10. Please see Everything You Need To Know for other information, rules, and terms.

After submissions close:

1. An email will be sent to anyone who submitted a photo about public voting before it opens.
2. The top 10 public vote recipients will qualify as finalists.
3. An additional 60 photographs will be selected by the Envision Kindness staff as finalists that are not in the top public vote recipients.
4. Our judging panel will then pick the winners for each prize category out of the 70 finalists.
5. AI-created images will only be considered for the AI prize.
6. Winners announced in December, 2024.
7. Please see our FAQs and Rules and Terms for more info or write to contest@envisionkindness.org.

Other Info and Rules:

• 18 years of age or older may enter.
• Photos can be documentary or illustrative. You can capture the kindness in the moment or it can be recreated for the photo. It can be a concept.
• See Rules about need for release forms. Click here for a release form if you need one.
• Entrants grant permission to Envision Kindness to use submitted materials for publicity and other display purposes (please see full rules and terms (everything you need to know)).
• Envision Kindness reviews every submission for appropriateness to the contest.
• Judges selections are final

For a full listing of rules and terms and conditions, click here.

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt