Framing the Future: Industrial Technologies Photo Contest
Pays cash prizes for photos documenting U.S. industrial decarbonization technology and people.
Framing the Future: Industrial Technologies Photo Contest is a DOE Industrial Technologies Office (ITO) prize that pays cash prizes for photos documenting U.S. industrial decarbonization technology and people, across six categories spanning emissions-intensive industries like iron and steel, cement and chemicals to cross-sector technologies, onsite energy and water treatment. Category 1 covers fiv…
The contest wants photos of the people, processes and technologies driving decarbonization across America's industrial sector, spanning six categories from emissions-intensive industries like iron and steel, cement, and chemicals, to cross-sector technologies, onsite energy, and water treatment. Photos must be taken in the U.S. or U.S. territories, or show U.S. technology abroad.
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