Faces of the Waterways

2025 Photo Contest

We Work the Waterways, Waterways Council Inc. and The Waterways Journal are teaming up again for a 2025 Photo Contest!

This contest will celebrate the people and places that define America's waterways. Send us compelling photos that capture people at work, in motion and in their element! Maybe they are piloting a vessel, maintaining a dock, loading cargo, cleaning a shoreline or teaching or learning in a classroom. Help us tell the story of the maritime industry through people and their settings. Click the flyer for more information.

The first place winners in each category will receive the following prizes:
  1. $50 credit to We Work the Waterways online store
  2. $50 Amazon Gift Card and photo on display at the Waterways Symposium
  3. FREE admission for one to 2026 Inland Marine Expo in Nashville, TN
  4. One year subscription to The Waterways Journal
  5. Photo published in The Waterways Journal
  6. Inland River Guide
Submissions will be accepted August 30 – October 10!
Category of your submission *
Please provide information that will help us build a caption for your photos, such as where the photo was taken, details about the contents of the photo (boat/ship details, time of day, what is happening in the photo, etc.)
If your submission has minors in the photo, do we have your consent to use this photo on social media and other outlets? *
Waiver: Do you agree to the sharing your photo on social media, prints, and digital ads in order to promote this year's contest? We are asking permission to share, use, feature, and promote your photo and its likeness to us We Work the Waterways, WCI, & Waterways Journal *
only one photo per submission

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