On the occasion of the feast of Saint Benedict Menni, the Sisters Hospitallers are launching the Fifth International Photography Competition, under the theme “We build and spread hospitality.”
The theme is inspired by the shared responsibility within a common project that unites sisters, collaborators, hospitaller lay people, volunteers, service users and families. From diverse vocations and perspectives, we are one body in mission, evangelising through humanising service and through the concrete witness of hospitaller values.
This competition offers an opportunity to express, through visual language, the richness of the hospitaller charism and the values that sustain the shared mission of the Institution in the different countries where it is present.
We build and spread hospitality when we strengthen relationships, foster trust, care for others and allow ourselves to be cared for. Our hospitaller identity, as an expression of mercy and shared mission, is a common project that unites people, centres and cultures, promoting a hospitality that is lived and transmitted to the world.
Photographs must reflect, in a creative and respectful way, gestures, experiences, attitudes and realities that make visible how the hospitaller community builds community, strengthens bonds of trust, cares and allows itself to be cared for, and lives hospitality as a transformative value.
Particular attention will be given to the ability of each image to convey humanity, commitment, co-responsibility, inclusion, mutual care and a sense of belonging to the Hospitaller Work.
The competition is open to people over 18 who are connected to the Sisters Hospitallers. This includes collaborators, service users, family members, volunteers, students on placement, benefactors and hospitaller lay people from all countries where the Congregation is present.
You can consult the full Terms and Conditions of the Fifth International Photography Competition via the link below.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS V INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs must be sent by email to communication@hsc-uk.org
Each submission must include the completed entry form and the image consent form signed by all identifiable persons appearing in the photograph.
The submission period runs from 1 to 31 March 2026 (inclusive).
The winners will be announced on the official Sisters Hospitallers website and on its official social media channels.
In addition to being featured in Sisters Hospitallers communication materials, three winning photographs will receive the following prizes: first prize of €300, second prize of €200 and third prize of €100.
As a congregational body, let us embrace this opportunity to make visible our communion around the feast of our Founder, and to continue proclaiming — also through images — the hospitality that we build and spread each day.