The Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) welcomed photo takers from all countries and regions to submit up to three of their original photos, shot by phone or camera, that show how connectivity infrastructure is helping to make people’s lives and the planet happier, healthier, more prosperous, and sustainable. MCDF Photo Contest 2025 reflects MCDF’s mission to promote “high-quality” connectivity infrastructure investment through partnerships.
Photo submissions spotlight MCDF’s four sector focus areas:
- Transportation and Logistics
- Clean and Renewable Energy
- Information and Communications Technology
- Transboundary Water Resource Management (e.g., seas, rivers, lakes, canals, etc. that connect one or more countries)
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Nicholas Bosoni
Lao PDR-China Railway Line Platform at Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR
Johannes Mendoza
International Shipping Lanes at Makassar Strait, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Siana Kazi
Panlong Highway in Xinjiang, China, on the Doorstep of Central Asia
Wenjun Zhang
Connecting the World to Outlying Section of the Great Wall at Li'erkou Village, Shanxi, China
Duong Tien Vu
Oyster Farm at Estuary in Vinh Long Province, Viet Nam, Linking from Neighboring Cambodia
Abhijit Bhatlekar
Enhanced Digital Connectivity in Nalla Sopara, 60 Kilometers North of Mumbai, India
Jiin Yun
Newly Opened (9/2025) Techo International Airport Outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Wenyu Gu
Route of China-Lao PDR Railway, Lao PDR
Motoko Henmi
Koh Chang Island, Thailand, a Popular International Tourist Area in the Gulf of Thailand
Nelly Farah Nguegan
International Commerce Gateway – Alassane Ouattara Bridge, Plateau, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Sophia Delis
Global Tourist Hub at Atlantic Coastline, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tomasz Bartos
Trans-Continental Shipping Through the Bosphorus Strait, Türkiye
Allan Fesalbon Castañeda
Moonlight and Solar-Powered Lighting at Batangas Port, Batangas City, Philippines
Anthony Into
Digital Trader at Sulu Sea-Celebes Sea Intersection, in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines
Tomasz Bartos
Jordan-Syria Border Solar Farm
Camilla Penserini
Gulf of Oman Trade Passage, Muscat, Oman
Jiin Yun
Bassac River Transport Corridor Connecting Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Viet Nam
Ghulam Murtaza Uqaili
International Financial Institution-Supported Zorlu Wind Farm in Jhimpir, Pakistan