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4th edition of the multimedia grant for a new humanitarian perspective: discover the four finalist projects
After several weeks reviewing the applications submitted for the 4th Edition of the Multimedia Grant for a New Humanitarian Perspective, Action Against Hunger is pleased to announce the four projects selected for the final stage.
This year, applicants were invited to propose original stories exploring the connections between food systems, nutrition, and resilience, while challenging and renewing representations of humanitarian crises and the communities affected by them. Through photography, documentary filmmaking, sound creation, illustration, and innovative digital formats, these four projects offer distinctive, participatory approaches deeply rooted in the lived realities of local communities.
The Grant jury will convene on November 18, 2026, to select the winning project, which will receive a €5,000 award to support its implementation. The official announcement of the winner will be made following the jury’s deliberations.
« The Taste of Home » – Abir Abdullah (Bangladesh)
Through the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Abir Abdullah explores how food becomes a vehicle for memory, identity, and cultural transmission. The project directly involves refugees in the image-making process, creating a dialogue between the photographer’s perspective and those of the communities themselves.
Combining participatory photography, personal stories, and documentation of everyday life, The Taste of Home examines the role of food in experiences of displacement and highlights what remains when home has been lost: flavors, culinary practices, and the memories they carry.
“Before It Becomes a Symptom” – Praise Belvianne Obi Onyinyechukwu (Cameroon)
Set in northern Cameroon, this documentary project follows the daily life of a family facing challenges in accessing sufficient and diverse food. Through an intimate approach, it highlights the close connections between nutrition, health, agriculture, and living conditions.
One of the project’s most distinctive features is its collaborative methodology: part of the story is produced by the family members themselves. This shared authorship enables participants to contribute directly to their own representation and tell their reality from their own perspective.
“Ain’ny Tany (Breath of the Earth)” – Marie Monier and Ashiko Ratovo (Madagascar)
Developed in southern Madagascar, Ain’ny Tany is a multimedia creation that combines documentary photography, painting, soundscapes, and personal testimonies.
The project explores the intimate relationship between communities, the land, and food systems in a region marked by recurring climate crises. By placing local knowledge and community narratives at the center, the work seeks to reveal the interdependencies between the environment, agriculture, food, and community resilience.
“The Unseen” – Navid Wahabu and Aubin Mukoni (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Through this fusion of photography and information design, the project seeks to go beyond what images alone can show, making visible the social, economic, and environmental dimensions that influence food security and nutrition.
Designed to be carried out in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Unseen offers a particularly innovative approach to documentary photography. The project combines photographs produced by Aubin Mukoni with a graphic layer designed by Navid Wahabu, revealing the invisible systems that shape people’s daily lives: distances traveled to access water, mutual aid networks, access to healthcare, agricultural activities, and resilience mechanisms.
A New Perspective on Food and Nutrition Challenges
These four projects reflect the richness of the proposals received this year and demonstrate the diversity of narrative forms capable of documenting issues related to hunger, nutrition, and food systems around the world. Whether through participatory photography, documentary storytelling, collaborative artistic creation, or visual innovation, they all share a common ambition: to place affected communities at the heart of the narrative and foster more accurate, nuanced, and inclusive representations of humanitarian realities.
Join us on November 18, 2026, when the jury of the Multimedia Grant for a New Humanitarian Perspective will select the winning project of this fourth edition.