Moments of Insight photo award

What is the Moments of Insight photo award?

For the first time since we began the World Wide Wander over ten years ago, we’re adding an extra fun award element to mark “Moments of Insight” that people experience during one of our Walkshops. We’ve got three prizes of £500 up for grabs!

The idea is simple.

Attend a Walkshop, in-person or online, between September 27th and October 25th, and take a photo of something you’re drawn to that has a special meaning for you. It might be an object, a piece of rubbish, a pattern, a sign, a word on a wall, a tree… Then submit your photo and 50 words (maximum) describing its meaning for you by October 25th 2024 to be in a chance of winning!

Our judges will check out all the entries and pick three lucky winners who will win £250 cash and £250 clothing voucher from our friends at Folk. To celebrate everyone’s efforts, we will share an online gallery of the winners and our 25 favourite entries overall!

Check out how to submit your entry below, how to sign up for a Walkshop, and the terms and conditions.

How do I submit my “Moments of Insight” entry?

  1. Attend a Walkshop:
    You have to attend a Street Wisdom/World Wide Wander Walkshop between September 27th 2024 (the day of the World Wide Wander) and October 25th 2024. You can either attend an in-person Walkshop, or an online Walkshop. We have in-person and online Walkshops available throughout the World Wide Wander on Friday 27th September 2024, and we have online Walkshops available for people to join throughout October. (See below: “Where do I sign up for a Walkshop?”)

  2. Take a photo during your Walkshop:
    During the Walkshop experience, you might find you are drawn to something that has real meaning for you. It might be an object on the pavement/sidewalk, it might be the way the light falls down through the railings, it might be a word on a sign, it might be a park bench, it might be the outline of a tree.... And so on. Whatever it is, take a photo of it with your phone or a camera. You can only submit one photo for the Moments of Insight award but you might want to take several photos during the Walkshop to give yourself options to choose from.

  3. Choose a photo and write 50 words (max):
    After the Walkshop, pick the photo you want to submit to the Moments of Insight photo award and write down its meaning for you in under 50 words. You can only submit one photo (ie no multiple entries). Don’t worry necessarily about the quality or artistic merit of either the photo or the writing. The winners will be picked because of the “Moment of Insight” rather than artistic ability. However, bear in mind, it will be good if the image, and your brief description of its meaning for you, is nice and clear.

  4. Submit your photo and up to 50 words describing its meaning for you between September 27th 2024 and October 25th 2024:
    You can then submit your photo and writing for the award in one of two ways.

    1) Either post your photo online with up to 50 words saying why it’s meaningful to you on either Instagram or Facebook with the tags @StreetWisdom_ #WorldWideWander #MomentsOfInsight. Ensure you include these three tags!

    2) Or you can email us your photo and up to 50 words saying why it’s meaningful to you at award@streetwisdom.org (images must be less than 3MB).

Where do I sign up for a Walkshop?

To enter the “Moments of Insight” photo award, you need to attend either an online or an in-person Walkshop between September 27th 2024 and October 25th 2024.

That means you can sign up for any of the in-person or online Walkshops as part of the World Wide Wander 2024 on Friday 27th September 2024. Sign up now.

Or you sign up for any online Walkshops taking place as part of Street Wisdom’s regular Walkshop programme during October. You can search the Street Wisdom events page and they are also here below so feel free to sign up to any number of these Walkshops:

Sign up for October 4th 2024 1pm UK time
Sign up for October 10th 2024 8am UK time
Sign up for Octobe 16th 2024 1pm UK time
Sign up for October 24th 2024 8am UK time

Note, you can take part in more than one Walkshop, but you must take part in at least one Walkshop to participate in the award.

Terms and conditions

  1. Only one entry per person allowed.

  2. Entries may only be submitted (either posted online or sent by email) between Friday 27th September 2024 and midnight October 25th 2024.

  3. You must take part in at least one Walkshop to be eligible to submit an entry. This means you must have signed up for, and attended, one of our in-person or online Walkshops between September 27th and October 25th. (See “Where do I sign up for a Walkshop” above). Only people who signed up and attended a Walkshop will be eligible to win one of the three prizes of £500.

  4. Entries may be submitted either online via Instagram/Facebook or by email (see “How do I submit my “Moments of Insight” entry?” above).

  5. Entries via Instagram/Facebook must be tagged with @StreetWisdom_ #WorldWideWander #MomentsOfInsight. Any entries without these tags will not eligible.

  6. Photo file size via email can only be 3MB max. Any size above will be immediately deleted and you will not be submitted.

  7. Three winners will be picked by our judges and their decision will be final.

  8. The three prizes of £500 comprise £250 cash and £250 Folk Clothing vouchers.

  9. All entries may be chosen for our online gallery which will be published online after October 25th 2024. We will pick up to 25 entries for the gallery. There is no prize or payment for being included in the online gallery. We may choose fewer than 25 for the gallery.

  10. We reserve the right not to award any prizes.