OPEN TO PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PHOTOJOURNALISTS
Win a growing cash prize pool (with a minimum cash prize of $500)
Get your work seen by an engaged, global community
Participate in a transparent, community-driven selection process
Want to help grow the cash prize?
Apply now
Welcome to Foto Foto
FotoFoto is an annual photography competition supporting photographers and photojournalists from Latin America and the Caribbean who use photography to challenge injustice and tell urgent stories
Why Apply?
- Win a share of a growing cash prize pool (based on total participation)
- Get your work seen by an international, engaged community
- Contribute to powerful conversations around social justice
- Exhibition in Rio de janeiro
Who Can Apply?
- Amateurs and Professionals
- photographers and photojournalists
- Citizens, residents and diaspora members of countries of Latin America and Caribbean
- Photographers submitting projects about social justice
Why are we different?
- We developed an inclusive photography ecosystem
- We create a circular and redistributive economy model
- We give transparency in how funds are distributed
- We have a community-driven jury model
FotoFotorules
- The competition is open from March 1st to June 30th 2026.
- The entry fee for the Prize is USD 15 (plus applicable taxes).
- Participants must be citizens, residents, or diaspora members of a country in Latin America or Caribbean.
- Participants must submit photographs about Latin America or Caribbean that follows at least one of the FOTOFOTO themes.
- Participants can only enter the competition once per edition. As a jury or as a photographer.
- Photographs must have been taken within the last 3 years or be new original work.
FOFOFOTOTHEMES
Paola Lambertin
jesse clark
kriss munsya
Juan Ordonez
Mauro Lima
Godfred KwakyeDeadline
time is running out
submit your work heretransparency is our core value
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What if we reach a maximum attendence of 50,000 participants?
The first winner gets
$250,000
The second winner gets
$100,000
first and second winners invited, all costs included, for their joint exhibition in
Rio de Janeiro
Visibility in various publications in Latin America and the Caribbean
International exposure
REDISTRIBUTED IN GRANTS FOR ART AND SOCIAL PROJECTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
$ 100,000
join a growing community of artivists and art lovers
apply nowIN US DOLLARS, BEFORE TAX.
Meet the team
Caroline Lopez
@carolinelopezzCaroline Lopez is a Brazilian audiovisual producer and director with over a decade of experience. Her work focuses on managing documentary and institutional projects, leading teams, budgets, and creative processes from development to delivery. As founder of Aimoré Filmes, she specializes in producing real stories for brands and organizations, combining strategic thinking with a sensitive and detail-oriented approach.
Kriss Munsya
@krissmunsyaKriss Munsya is a Congolese-born, visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. His practice explores the intersections of race, identity, memory, and social justice, drawing from personal experiences of racism and displacement. Through visually striking and conceptual imagery, Kriss Munsya challenges dominant narratives and amplifies marginalized voices across the African diaspora and beyond.