PRIZE DETAILS: There are five prizes total. A panel of international development and photography experts will choose the winners for the Best of Category prizes ($250, four). The People’s Choice prize will be decided by IREX’s fans on Facebook. IREX may also select up to five honorable mention finalists. Not eligible to enter? - Find contest where you are.

COPYRIGHT: An entrant must hold, and affirm that entrant holds, all rights to the photograph(s) submitted; those that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright or license are not eligible. USAGE RIGHTS: By entering the Contest, all entrants grant IREX a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (with or without a name credit), in whole or in part, for any educational, promotional, publicity, archival, exhibition or other non-commercial purpose, in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest or otherwise, in any media now or hereafter known, including, but not limited to: Display at a potential exhibition of winners; print publication of reports and brochures featuring select entries in the Contest. The Organizer will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with authorized uses. Entrants consent to the Organizer doing or omitting to do any act that would otherwise infringe the entrant’s “moral rights” in their entries. Display or publication of any entry on the Organizer’s website does not indicate the entrant will be selected as a winner. Additionally, by entering, each entrant grants to The Organizer the unrestricted right, without any additional approval or consideration, to use the entrant’s name and/or any statements made in submissions to, or otherwise in connection with, the Contest, and pictures or likenesses of Contest entrants for any purpose, or to choose not to do so, at Organizer’s sole discretion.
Subject to any license provided for under these Official Rules, entrant will retain copyright to all photographs submitted. Entrants may continue to use photographs submitted to the Contest for any commercial or non-commercial purposes permitted by law and in compliance with these Official Rules.