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WINNERS’ GALLERY
MCDF Photo Contest 2025: Connectivity for a Better World
WINNERS’ GALLERY
Submission Deadline

24 November 2025, 09:00 (GMT+8)

TIME: Submission Deadline 24 November 2025, 09:00 (GMT+8), 

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ABOUT THE CONTEST

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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GRAND PRIZE

Nicholas Bosoni

Lao PDR-China Railway Line Platform at Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR

1ST RUNNER-UP

Johannes Mendoza

International Shipping Lanes at Makassar Strait, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

2ND RUNNER-UP

Siana Kazi

Panlong Highway in Xinjiang, China, on the Doorstep of Central Asia

CONSOLATION PRIZES (x3)

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

HONORARY MENTION (x12)
J

Jiin Yun

Newly Opened (9/2025) Techo International Airport Outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia

N

Wenyu Gu

Route of China-Lao PDR Railway, Lao PDR

M

Motoko Henmi

Koh Chang Island, Thailand, a Popular International Tourist Area in the Gulf of Thailand

N

Nelly Farah Nguegan

International Commerce Gateway – Alassane Ouattara Bridge, Plateau, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

S

Sophia Delis

Global Tourist Hub at Atlantic Coastline, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

T

Tomasz Bartos

Trans-Continental Shipping Through the Bosphorus Strait, Türkiye

A

Allan Fesalbon Castañeda

Moonlight and Solar-Powered Lighting at Batangas Port, Batangas City, Philippines

A

Anthony Into

Digital Trader at Sulu Sea-Celebes Sea Intersection, in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines

T

Tomasz Bartos

Jordan-Syria Border Solar Farm

C

Camilla Penserini

Gulf of Oman Trade Passage, Muscat, Oman

J

Jiin Yun

Bassac River Transport Corridor Connecting Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Viet Nam

G

Ghulam Murtaza Uqaili

International Financial Institution-Supported Zorlu Wind Farm in Jhimpir, Pakistan