Congratulations to our 2024 award winners!

Eternal Love

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First Place

Si Thu Ye Myint

Seeing Through Touch

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Honorable Mention

Ramon Castillo

Child and Horse

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Honorable Mention

Ramazan Ciracoglu

Unspoken Bond

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Honorable Mention

Debashis Mukherjee

The Power of Volunteering

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Honorable Mention

Zienab Adel

Suffering Forest Fire

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Honorable Mention

Yoe Yar

Stranded Whales

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Non-profit Honoree

Fahreza Ahmad

Ocean Guardians

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AI “Inner Visions”

Reu Dawner Flores

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Photo Club

Shangtuf Image and Art

This year we have a special award of $1,000 USD for the photography club or organization with the most accepted contest submissions from its members. Thanks to all of the photography clubs and organizations around the world that helped to spread the word to their members, and congratulations to Shangtuf Image and Art!

Thank you!

The 2024 Our World is Kind international photo contest received thousands of wonderful and inspiring images of kindness, compassion, joy, and love.

Thank you to all of the photographers who captured and shared moments of kindness from communities across the globe!

The contest is now closed for entries this year. Check out the full gallery below to view the images that were submitted by kind and talented photographers to help inspire kindness, joy, and healing in the world!

View the full gallery here:

https://envisionkindness.us.launchpad6.com/OurWorldIsKind2024/entries

Congratulations to our 2024 Finalists!

To view finalists, please see the galleries below. All finalist images are displayed in a random order.  If you want to learn more about an image, click into the image and press “i”.

General and Non Profit Category Finalists

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AI “Inner Visions” Category Finalists

Public Choice Finalists

The benefits of participation

  • It is FREE to enter!
  • Your images can help create new acts of kindness and make people happier
  • You could win some cash
  • GMX, a large German news organization with millions of weekly readers, will publish the prize winning photos from the contest (see last year’s article here)
  • Your work may be showcased on the Envision Kindness website and distributed through our networks with your photo credit
  • Your favorite non-profit could have their work celebrated and featured across Envision’s platforms
  • Click HERE for rules, terms & conditions, and more information on how your images will be used

Prizes

$1000

First Place

$500

Nonprofit Honoree 

$250

“AI Inner Visions of Kindness”

$200

Honorable Mention (5) 

Photography Club or Organization Prizes:

This year, to honor the many wonderful photography clubs and organizations, we are initiating two new prizes. First, if a photographer who is a member of a club or organization wins a prize, Envision Kindness will match that prize with a donation to the club! Second, the photography club or organization with the most accepted submissions will receive a $1,000 USD honorarium to benefit the club/organization and its members. Photographers MUST indicate the club or organization and its website address at the time of submission. Please see rules and terms for more information. As for photographers, the distribution of prize money follows US law.

Announcing our new “AI Inner Visions of Kindness” category!

This prize will be awarded to an AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated image that illustrates your inner vision of what kindness can look like. This could look like:

  • A conceptual image
  • A specific scene illustrating the way you imagine kindness in the world.

We encourage creativity! Whether it is kindness to others, to ourselves, to animals, to the planet, or to society, there are so many ways to visualize what kindness could look like. What is your inner vision?

Important: AI-generated images will be judged separately and will ONLY be accepted in this category of the contest. They will not be considered for the 1st place, honorable mention, or non-profit prizes. Please ensure that your AI-generated image submissions do not include recognizable/known figures such as politicians or celebrities. For more information on this and our other prizes, see our FAQs.

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The Non-Profit Honoree Prize is back for 2024!

The Non-Profit prize will be awarded to a powerful image showcasing a registered non-profit’s work or impact. 50% of the prize will be awarded to the photographer, and 50% will be awarded to the nonprofit. We look forward to honoring their important work this year.

We love to showcase the meaningful work of non-profit organizations in our kindness videos like the “Kindness is Everywhere” video featured here. These videos are displayed in places where people experience stress, such as hospital waiting rooms, and help them to feel better.

For more information on this and our other prizes, see our FAQs.

Do you believe the world could be a kinder place?

It can, through your photography. We know that after people see images of kindness, they are kinder, happier, more optimistic, and more generous.  

How we use images at Envision Kindness

Envision Kindness is a non-profit that inspires kindness, compassion, joy, and love through photography. We share images of kindness to inspire people wherever they are.  We compile some of those images into videos to become part of a program called EnSpire.

You can see a sample of how we may use photos in the video montage Why Do Hugs Feel So Good?. You can also find more videos on the Enspire page, as well as links to the science showing how your images of kindness, caring, and compassion can make people happier, calmer, more grateful, and more generous! This is a very powerful and simple way to help people connect with their humanity and the humanity of others. 

What does kindness look like?

Where do you see moments of kindness in your community? What stories can you tell?

Here’s a bit of inspiration to help you capture these impactful moments.  Your photos can document a real-life moment or illustrate a concept. What does kindness look like to you?

Kind people

Kind people

We see kindness in people every day – in people we know and those we haven’t met yet lending a hand, helping others, or paying it forward. 

Kindness in nature

Kindness in nature

You may find kindness in animals, in a heart-shaped leaf, in hikers lending a hand, in protecting the environment, and so much more.

Kindness in the community

Kindness in the community

Our communities are filled with kindness! At work, in places of worship, in hospitals, from non-profits, and in public spaces and shops.

The Process

Submit

Submit

Submit your kindness photos here. One photo per submission, and up to five submissions per person. It’s free to enter!

Finalist selection

Finalist selection

Finalists are selected through online voting (10) or by Envision Kindness staff (60). Harness the power of your community through online voting. See FAQs for more information.

Judging

Judging

Judges will choose winning photos from our finalists. Winners will be announced in December 2024.

Contest Judges

These esteemed judges have kindly volunteered their time and expertise to review all finalist photos and select contest winners.

Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Agatha Bunanta

Martin Buzora

Sergey Volkov

Dr. James Doty

Leyla Emektar

Thuku Kariuki

Dr. Piero Ferrucci

Aundre Larrow

Mara Leite

Kimara Ellefson

Kristen McNicholas

Maureen Bisognano

Guri Mehta

Cathaleen Curtiss

Hermis Haridas

Marilyn Turkovitch

Rumay Alexander

Gael Almeida

John Bare

Promotional Partners

We are very grateful to the following kind organizations who have generously helped to promote the Our World Is Kind contest. 

Do you have more questions?
Check out our FAQ section for some of our most popular questions.
*Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
*All prizes made according to US law. US law prohibits us from sending funds to certain countries at the moment including Iran, Russia, and Belarus; please check the terms & conditions for details. 
*All submissions must be in English. 

Submit your kindness images for free to join the movement, inspire others, and #PictureABetterWorld

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