Lancet photo competition for “original photographs that bring a fresh focus to a health story” -potential opportunity for awareness?

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Cinders66

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given that using the media to change perceptions about our illness has been the focus of quite a lot of campaigning, i was wondering whether this Could be used by our community?

The Lancet | Highlights photography competition

Photographs are a powerful way to convey health stories. Earlier this year, The Lancet published a photo feature about a new face for leprosy. These pictures captured moments of humanity and showed patients with leprosy enjoying life, function, and community, in ways that were a departure from conventional pictures of disability. We are looking for equally arresting images for Highlights 2019.

The Lancet's annual photography competition, Highlights, is now in its tenth year and we are always impressed by the stunning pictures from around the world that are submitted. Last year the 18 winning pictures highlighted ageing, safe surgery, diabetes in Uzbekistan, community malaria prevention in Uganda, newborn care in India, and homelessness in the UK, among many other topics.

Highlights 2019 is now open for submissions. We are looking for original photographs that bring a fresh focus to a health story. Submissions can be on any topic linked to health—from public health in action to clinical medicine, from the community to high-tech health care to humanitarian settings, from low-income to high-income settings, from the personal to populations. We expect compelling images that hold our interest and illuminate a health story.
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How to submit: https://hubs.ly/H0lhw1C0
 
Hi all! If you posted, ‘liked’ or read comments on this thread, I hope you might be interested in spending just a few minutes helping out with an important, related project here on the forum – namely, to get the media to use better images of PwME in their news articles.

A large group of us have been working together on another thread to choose a pool of suitable photos in the Getty Images stock library, which media editors already use to find photos. We want to suggest to our charities that they include a link to that pool with every press release that they send out, and encourage photo editors to use it.

But we need your help to show that meaningful numbers of PwME and our carers support the pool! We’re therefore aiming for at least 50, and preferably 100 votes on the photo-pool in this poll.

So if you haven’t done so already, please read Simon M’s explanatory post (the first in that thread) and then do the poll.

Huge thanks! :)
 
Thanks very much to everyone who has voted on the poll so far! We’ll be closing it on January 3rd.

And just a reminder – if discussing individual photos, please don’t post any copies or screenshots of pictures from Getty Images – it’s against their copyright terms and they’re known to use software that crawls the web looking for rogue copies of their images, so it’s best not to.

Thanks again, and happy holidays! :party::party::party:

(With apologies for cross-posting.)
 
Poll closed, 90% in favour of the Getty Images collection put together by PwME

Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll! It's now closed.

Please go to this other thread to see plans for getting the collection out where it can help.
 
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