CCFD-Terre Solidaire
Photo Award
2025

EDITION 2025|2026

EDITION 2023|2024

In 2025, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, an international solidarity NGO, launched the second edition of its International Photography Award for Humanist and Environmental Photography. Its Honorary President, photographer Sebastião Salgado, passed away that same year, and the prize aims to pay tribute to him.

At the intersection of the NGO world and photography, the aim of this prize is to make each image an invitation to understand the world and embrace the challenges of building a more solidaristic world.

Five photographers were awarded by a jury of professionals and, for the first time, by the Public Award. In 2026, exhibitions will take place throughout France to show their work: at the La Gacilly Photo Festival (Lys Arango), the Horizons Festival in Périgueux (Ismail Abu Hatab), the Maison des Arts du Léman (group exhibition), and the Festival of Sacred Arts in Reims (Lalo de Almeida). And many more to come!

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A closer look at the candidates for the 2025-2026 edition

402

applications received

countries represented

10,000

pictures received

Le Livre Photo

The first edition of the CCFD-Terre Solidaire Photo Award now has its own book! (Re)discover the winners’ photos, along with a tribute to photographer Sebastião Salgado, the contest’s honorary president. For every book purchased, 10 euros will be donated to CCFD-Terre Solidaire.

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2025

The 5 winners

©Federico Ríos Escobar

Federico Ríos Escobar

Jury Award

Paths of Desperate Hope

Since 2022, Colombian photojournalist Federico Ríos Escobar has been documenting the stories of those attempting to cross one of the world’s most important but also most dangerous migration routes, the Darién region between Colombia and Panama.

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©Lys Arango

Lys Arango

Jury Award (dotation SAIF)

Until the Corn Grows Back

In this long-term photographic project, Spanish reporter Lys Arango documents the hunger ravaging the indigenous Maya populations in Guatemala’s “dry corridor.”

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©Lalo de Ameida

Lalo de Almeida

Jury Award

Climate Change in the Amazon

In this black-and-white work, Brazilian photographer Lalo de Almeida reports on the consequences of extreme droughts affecting indigenous communities in the Amazon, who find themselves trapped in their own forest.

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©Ismail Abu Hatab

Ismail Abu Hatab

Special jury award, posthumously

Beyond the Sky and the Sea

Palestinian Ismail Abu Hatab photographed the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza, where many people displaced by successive conflicts are trying to survive “between the sky and the sea.” This was his latest project. The photographer died in an Israeli strike on Gaza on June 30, 2025. He was 33 years old.

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©Natalya Saprunova

Natalya Saprunova

Public Award

Permafrost – This cold is no longer eternal

Since 2022, French photojournalist Natalya Saprunova, who is of Russian origin, has been working on permafrost, the thousand-year-old layer of ice. She illustrates the consequences of its melting for the native communities that have lived on these lands for generations.

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©Hugues Lawson

The Ambassador: Imany

French singer with an international career, Imany has always used her art to convey universal messages of dignity, justice, and humanity. Committed to various causes for several years, she has now joined forces with CCFD-Terre Solidaire to promote the power of photography as a lever for raising awareness and inspiring action.

“Being the ambassador of this competition means extending a personal commitment: the belief that art can heal.”

©Emily Garthwaite

The 2025 Jury

An international jury composed of professionals from the fields of photography, photojournalism, and international solidarity:

Alessandro Cinque (photojournalist, winner of the 2023 edition) ｜ Amélie Churlet (CCFD-Terre Solidaire) ｜ Boby (photojournalist) ｜ Charlotte De Poncins (CCFD-Terre Solidaire) ｜ Cyrielle Gendron (PHOTO magazine) ｜ Cyril Drouhet (La Gacilly Festival) ｜ Damarice Amao (National Museum of Modern Art-Pompidou Center) ｜ Dimitri Beck (Polka) ｜ Gilles Cargueray (Odyssée publishing house) ｜ Julie Lesgourgues (Point Ephémère) ｜ Pierre Ciot (SAIF, Divergence-Images)

Discover the members of the 2025 jury

Award 2025

Principles

© Anush Babajanyan / Prix Photo Terre Solidaire

CCFD-Terre Solidaire Award

3 laureates selected by a grand jury.

10,000€ grant, which one funded by la SAIF.
A series of exhibitions in France and internationally.

© Anush Babajanyan

© Alessandro Cinque / Prix Photo CCFD-Terre Solidaire

Public Award

1 laureate selected by the general public

An assignment with one of CCFD-Terre Solidaire’s international partners.
A series of exhibitions in France and internationally.

© Alessandro Cinque

Exhibition “Révélation”

At Point Éphémère, Paris.

The work of the CCFD-Terre Solidaire Award winners will be on display at the “Revelation” exhibition at Point Éphémère in Paris on October 3, 2025. This exhibition, which will run throughout October, is an opportunity to bring together the general public, the world of photography, and NGOs in an iconic location in the capital.

© Anush Babajanyan

« Facing the world, means enabling everyone to transform their vision into action »

In a world fractured by multiple crises and growing tensions, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, as an international solidarity organization, calls on everyone to “Face the World.”

Under this significant theme, our prize invites photographers to capture a portrait of our world—both fragile and resilient.

It encourages the public to confront the realities experienced by others, understand them, and transform their vision into action. It’s a genuine call to open up to the world and push further, because we believe that another model of society is both possible and necessary.