Meet the finalists of the WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022

The WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022 (the Photography Prize) aims to celebrate the creativity of indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their photographs.

The Photography Prize was launched on August 12, 2021, as part of the celebration of International Youth Day. This activity was designed in consultation with an Advisory Board comprised by Indigenous peoples and local communities representatives, including youth, and organizations, governments and individuals working on climate change, biodiversity, photography, intellectual property, media and entrepreneurship.

The theme of the WIPO Photography Prize is Climate Change and Climate Action: Mother Earth through our Lenses. Participation is meant to encourage Indigenous and local community youth to express themselves on this issue of immense global significance. To make this competition more accessible to as many young people as possible, the participants were not required to use professional equipment for taking photographs.

The Shortlisted Photographs

The Traditional Knowledge Division is pleased to announce the shortlisted entries of the WIPO Photography Prize. The thirty shortlisted photographs are available on the online Gallery. There you will find out more about how Indigenous peoples and local community youth express themselves on the challenges they face due to climate change and how they attempt to mitigate its impact.