Nine finalists as selected by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Microsoft and their prestigious judges will:

• Be sent a Microsoft Lumia 930 device and be required to capture additional photos using their device
• Receive a copy of the 2014 edition of the ‘Reuters Our World Now’ photobook

The voting period is the time to engage your friends, family and supporters to vote for your work! One photographer with the highest number of votes will:

• Automatically be included as the 10th finalist

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Finbarr is a Reuters photographer and winner of the World Press Photo 2006. He began his journalism career as a writer turned to photography in 2005 covering Africa.

He has since won numerous industry awards for his multimedia work and photography, including first place awards from POYI and the NPPA. Finbarr is published widely in leading international magazines and newspapers and his solo exhibition "Congo On the Wire" has been shown in France, Canada, and at Harward’s Carr Center for Human Rights.

His series on white poverty in South Africa was included in the exhibition “After A” in Italy in 2010.

Belinda Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist who has reported and led news teams from more than 20 countries on political, financial and general news. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information.

In this role, she runs a global team of nearly 30 journalists and a large network of stringers covering the world’s under reported stories, focusing on humanitarian issues, women’s rights, climate change, corruption and good governance. Belinda joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2014 after 20 years of working for Reuters. She worked for Reuters in Australia, Sweden, the United States and Britain in a variety of roles including Head of Investment Banking in New York, Global Editor of Entertainment and Lifestyle, Global Head of Editorial Learning, and, most recently, Chief Correspondent for Britain.

Laura Bates founded the award-winning Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of more than 50,000 women’s experiences of gender imbalance sourced from women of all backgrounds. The project – now in 17 countries – has been used to improve education policies, initiatives for tackling sexual offences and government media equality guidelines.

Bates is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Independent, Grazia, and Red Magazine and several other media outlets. She is a contributor to Women Under Siege, a New York-based organisation working against the use of rape as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide.

Thomson Reuters Foundation, Microsoft and their judges will select from all qualified submissions. A qualified submission is one which meets all the Terms & Conditions, Guidelines and Official Rules. Their selection will be independent of social votes.

The Talenthouse community and supporters of entrants, whether on Talenthouse or not, can vote for their favorite submissions during voting week via Facebook and Twitter. The artist with the largest public support will be chosen as the Highest Voted and will automatically advance to Round 2 as the 10th finalist.