Borders Calling: B-SHAPES photo competition for high school students

Take a picture of a (hi)story behind borders that surround you!

Borders are everywhere—not just between countries, but in your neighbourhood, your city, even in the spaces you pass through every day. Some are visible, like walls or rivers. Others are invisible, like where different communities meet or where one culture transitions into another.
This competition invites you to explore the borders around you and discover the stories they tell. What divides your community? What brings it together? How do these boundaries shape who you are?

Your mission: Find a border in your surroundings, capture it through your camera lens, and tell us its story.

Think about:

• What story do you want to tell?
• What is the border in your photo?
• How does this border influence the landscape and the people around it?
• What local stories make up this borderland?
• How does the landscape reflect local identity and culture?
• What feelings do you—and others in your community—have about this border?
• What do the borderlands tell us about who we are?

You don't need to live in a border region to participate. Every place has borders worth exploring.