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Announcing the Winners
Announcing 41 Critics’ Choice Award Winners for 2025
Here are 41 international photographers we think you should know. Thousands of photo projects and single images were submitted this year to the Critics’ Choice Awards from over 120 countries around the world. These top winners represent the personal favorites of the 19 photography experts on this year’s panel.
The LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards are like no other photography awards. This competition is open to photographers of all ages, and all levels of experience, from cultures all over the world. There are no themes, no limitations on genre, no restrictive guidelines. So, as a result, we receive work that represents a wide range of creative approaches that shows the many different ways that people in cultures around the world are using photography to express themselves, to tell stories, to capture beauty, to document events, to make art, to connect with each other.
For Critics’ Choice, each of the 19 internationally respected experts on this year’s panel was asked to select three personal favorites to win an award. And for each selection, we asked the experts to write a short explanation about why the winners captured their attention enough to reward it with a Critics’ Choice Award.
This year’s winners are especially interesting, and we encourage you to take the time to dig deep into each of these award-winning projects. Enjoy!
Discover the work of all 41 photographers selected by these industry insiders, and find out directly from each critic why their image or series stood out from the rest.
Selected by
Andreas Müller-Pohle
European Photography
Japan
Kazunari Suzuki
Japan Guide Book
In Japan Guide Book, Kazunari Suzuki presents tableaux of well-known places and landscapes to reveal how visual clichés of Japan are shaped through constant repetition. By removing dominant motifs from postcards, photographs, and other media, he exposes the constructed nature of tourist imagery, showing just how much our perception of Japan is the result of visual conditioning.
Brazil
Mateus Gomes
Escombros
Escombros investigates the consequences of Brazil’s Minas Rio infrastructure project for local communities. It documents the plight of farmers displaced from their ancestral lands who, even a decade later, haven’t been adequately compensated. The series highlights the impact of weak rule of law, real estate speculation, and institutional corruption on the lives of those affected by large-scale development.
Germany
Thomas Neumann
The Oak from Schlossplatz Berlin / Die Eiche vom Schlossplatz Berlin
The Oak Tree at Schlossplatz Berlin explores the historical presence of a single oak tree in Berlin’s urban space. Drawing on extensive archival research and using photographic collages and overlays, the project traces how the tree’s visibility and symbolic significance have evolved across various political and social contexts.
Selected by
Ann Jastrab
Center for Photographic Art
United States
Aidan Lancaster
Being and Becoming
It's hard to believe that Aidan Lancaster is a graduate student. Of all the projects in the series category, this is the one that I returned to again and again. It was the bravest work that I reviewed and I applaud this young photographer for photographing themselves and their journey and for presenting their photographs to the world. Bravo!
United States
Catharine Carter
Private Myths
Catherine Carter's image, "Private Myths" is so beautifully done, the woman in the scene fading as she walks down a path toward a snake. I'd love to see the print in person as it looks like a photogravure or even a graphite drawing. So much like a dream or a fairy tale. The image really captured my imagination and pushes the boundaries of what a photograph can be and can do.
United Kingdom
Timon Benson
Father, About to Leave
I chose Timon Benson's image, "Father" because it reminded me of a film still. A poignant image in B&W that seems voyeuristic, the subject appears unaware of the photographer observing him through the window. The window looks like a screen too. I had to look at this image a few times to realize what I was seeing. Brilliantly seen and so evocative. I can't stop wondering about what his father is thinking and where he is going. A short story in a single frame.
Selected by
Arianna Rinaldo
PhEST
Palestine
Abdelrahman Alkahlout
Unbroken Faith Amidst Genocide
No need to comment on this image.
Humanity’s atrocities are immense, but so is human’s strength.
It is important to not turn away. And to act to stop this war, like many others that are underrepresented but equally atrocious.
Humanity’s atrocities are immense, but so is human’s strength.
It is important to not turn away. And to act to stop this war, like many others that are underrepresented but equally atrocious.
United States
Bradley Peters
New Matters
I love to see works that surprise me and force me to look beyond the surface. I am puzzled and ask questions.
From personal drama, symbolic truths and gestures can appear. Bradley Peters’s starting point is a family tragedy which imbues his way of looking at the world and photographing it. What is born is a series of unconventional images, with a cinematic style, suggesting actions that we might not recognize or understand. We can read our own reality in them, and laugh, or cry.
From personal drama, symbolic truths and gestures can appear. Bradley Peters’s starting point is a family tragedy which imbues his way of looking at the world and photographing it. What is born is a series of unconventional images, with a cinematic style, suggesting actions that we might not recognize or understand. We can read our own reality in them, and laugh, or cry.
France
Yves Lacroix
Through the cracks in us, light penetrates
It is hard to talk about war, to look at war, to listen to war, especially in these times of dramatic twists of real life history reaching us from far and near. But it is important to do so, and photographers can find ways, beyond the essential and important photojournalistic approach, to speak to our heart. Yves Lacroix is able to reach our souls with a simple gesture, placing his lights inside destroyed homes in battered Ukraine.
The light leaks through the darkness, revealing vulnerability but also hope. Those are homes, they were somebody’s home and the light turned on inspires the possibility of return.
The light leaks through the darkness, revealing vulnerability but also hope. Those are homes, they were somebody’s home and the light turned on inspires the possibility of return.
Selected by
Asha Iman Veal
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Iran
Ebrahim Alipoor
Bullets Have No Borders
Photographer Ebrahim Alipoor (b. 1990 Kurdistan, Iran) showed a large-scale print of this selection from Bullets Have No Borders at the 2025 World Press Photo Exhibition earlier this year in Amsterdam. The mountainous scene and its palpable precarity are equal parts sobering and captivating—unforgettable when viewed in-person. The bravery of Bullets Have No Borders as a documentary project continues to haunt my memory in the best of ways. This photographer and the community he presents are extraordinary.
Brazil
Asafe Ghalib
Queer Immigrants
The instant legacy of Asafe Ghalib (b. 1990 Brazil) and “Lexii” befits our contemporary moment of collaboration and image-making—while also recalling iconic past aesthetics and the continuously inquired era of Jean-Paul Goude, Carolina Beaumont, and Grace Jones. A product of the political present, I much more enjoy Ghalib’s position. This single image and his full project of Queer Immigrants distinguishes itself as both of-the-moment and timeless. London nightlife luminary Lexii is presented by Ghalib as connected to community, while also autonomous and distinct.
Belgium
Kumi Oguro
Selected works (after "Hester")
In “After Hester” by Kumi Oguro (b. 1972 Japan, lives in Belgium), the artist straddles reverence and irreverence, exhaustion and animation, sex and the surreal. Absurdist portraiture vignettes and muted-visage scenes provocatively reimagine the external social expectations and internal madness of Oguro’s unlikely literary heroine, referenced by the body of work’s title. Perhaps Oguro’s Hester—as a stand-in for all of us—is simultaneously trapped, free, exasperated, aroused, unpredictable, and bruised.
Selected by
Cassidy Paul
Aperture
Hungary
Andras Zoltai
Flood Me, I'll Be Here
Andras Zoltai’s Flood Me, I’ll Be Here is an intimate, yet contemplative survey of the effects of climate catastrophe that looks beyond the narratives of destruction. For over five years, Zoltai has photographed in Majuli, the world’s largest river island in Northeast India that is slowly disappearing due to erosion and flooding. Zoltai’s photographs avoid the visual cliches, instead narrowing in on the enduring, almost sacred, relationship between the people and water, offering a portrait of quiet resilience.
Germany
Zexuan Zeng
The Internal Crusade
In 1934, amidst the Chinese Civil War and facing advancing Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist Party began The Long March, a military retreat from Jiangxi to a new headquarters in Yan’an. In the summer of 2024, Zexuan Zeng, who was born and raised in Ganzhou Jiangxi, spent two months tracing the route of The Long March, documenting the people and places along it. There is a piercing quality to Zeng’s lens: in one image, an endless pile of communist flags fills a room; elsewhere, someone displays their carefully preserved military uniform on a small apartment balcony; and on an empty street, the only display of movement shows a statue being cleaned. Brought together in the series internal crusade, Zeng reckons with the aftermaths of an unfinished revolution, and the ways in which it lingers on our perception of history, grief, and self.
Italy
Benedetta Ristori
The Wall Remembers Twice
What does it mean to live inside a space that was built by a former ideology? Photographing across Georgia and Armenia, Benedetta Ristori documents the Soviet-era structures that form a part of everyday life. There is a beautifully haunting quality to Ristori’s photographs, as she pictures not ruins or relics, but spaces occupied in the day-to-day, such as gas stations, apartment complexes, swimming pools, and playgrounds. Throughout her series The Wall Remembers Twice, Ristori considers how the looming presence of a bygone era is a material one, inextricably linked to daily existence—capturing the multifaceted layers of time and memory that can occupy our environment.
Selected by
Diane Smyth
British Journal of Photography/Photoworks Annual
Germany
Zexuan Zeng
The Internal Crusade
Through an intriguingly wide range of styles, the photographer illustrates an important story—the ongoing impact of the Long March in China. The images gently but firmly question the official narratives at work in China, with quirky touches of humor that don’t detract from the deadly seriousness of the project and its implications.
United States
Diana Cheren Nygren
Mother Earth
Using singular approach to photography, which stands out for its unusual palette and style, Mother Earth plays with the medium of photography itself. Questioning our desire to isolate and display, the series speaks about both our disastrous approach to the environment, and the way in which photography may be implicated in it.
Peru
Jeanfranco Tenorio
Toma de Lima (The Taking of Lima)
A classic piece of photojournalism, TMDL recalls many other protest images and a classic trope—a single individual against a line of police. The familiarity of the shot doesn’t take away from its power, in this case exacerbated by the imperial/colonial dynamics at work in an indigenous woman facing a governmental force in South America. Tenorio has put himself in the right time and place and composed a compelling image; the photographer is recording a struggle against authoritarianism that went underreported in the West.
Selected by
Gwen Lee
Singapore International Photography Festival
United States
Aiko Wakao Austin
What We Inherit
What We Inherit delicately bridges personal memory and collective history, revealing how objects—kimonos, photographs, scrapbooks—become vessels for inherited emotions, values, and unresolved tensions. By layering archival material with contemporary photographic practices, the artist mourns the fading of familial legacies while attempting to preserve them against the erasure of time. The project resonates through its quiet intimacy: a granddaughter’s longing to connect with grandparents she barely knew, and her effort to reconcile cultural identity across generations and geographies in an era of digital ephemerality.
United Kingdom
Sean Cham
Eastern Promise
The studio staging within Eastern Promise speaks intelligently and sensitively to gender, post-colonial thought and identity—all tightly strung together, and yet carrying a tint of playfulness that invites one to uncover the layers beneath.
France
Yves Lacroix
When Our Paths Cross
When Our Paths Cross draws you into a deeply personal and poetic journey through war-torn Ukraine, where spontaneous encounters reveal the emotional fabric of everyday life. As you move through these intimate moments, you're invited to reflect on identity, hope, and resilience in the face of a conflict that continues to reshape lives.
Selected by
István Virágvölgyi
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Hungary
Andras Zoltai
Flood Me, I'll Be Here
Flood Me, I'll be Here offers a deeply moving and insightful portrayal of the island Majuli, transcending the typical narrative of climate catastrophe to reveal profound human resilience. The series beautifully captures the islanders' intimate, cyclical relationship with the Brahmaputra, highlighting a powerful model of adaptive coexistence and spiritual continuity.
United Kingdom
Andrew Newey
Honey Hunters of Nepal
Honey Hunters of Nepal is an extraordinary photograph—one that can almost be mistaken for a painting—masterfully capturing both the physical demands and profound cultural significance of this ancient practice. It tells a compelling story of human resilience and tradition against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty.
Lithuania
Valentyn Odnoviun
Surveillance: A Typology of Oppression
Surveillance: A Typology of Oppression is a haunting and profoundly impactful series. By meticulously documenting these spyholes, the artist transmutes instruments of control into stark, abstract portraits of human confinement and the insidious nature of systemic oppression across historical periods. The power of repetition rendered into a visual code.
Selected by
Jamie Spence
EU Vogue
United States
Josh Aronson
Florida Boys
In an age that is constantly questioning what it is to be a man and the place of masculinity in society, Aronson has cleverly challenged the spaces and ideals of the traditional American Male coming-of-age story by photographing subjects who themselves feel othered by societal ideals. What Aronson delivers is a poetic and romantic vision of an America that could be.
Australia
Gavin Libotte
Wanderland
Libotte’s simple yet effective gesture of bringing his camera to floor level for street photography has a high energetic and dramatic impact. Subjects become bigger, dominating the frame and, with Libotte’s punchy colors, even when subjects are in fixed, stationary position, the images feel alive with a sense of urgency,
Netherlands
Mouneb Taim
Playing and Laughing in the Rubble of Home
In this image, Mouneb Taim has captured a moment of calm in a devastating environment. Portraying a family that has lost everything, he has captured a sense of community with their subjects that delivers a feeling of prevailing togetherness. His image presents a coming together in the toughest of times to show the potential of the human spirit to persist, resist and simply exist in the face of the most terrifying odds.
Selected by
Jim Casper
LensCulture
Spain
Carlos Folgoso Sueiro
Beyond The Lake
Carlos Folgoso Sueiro has created an immersive, cinematic, semi-mythical story about the place where he grew up, Galicia, and the people who inhabit it still, against all odds of survival. It’s a sad and romantic tale that also touches on rural depopulation, droughts, neglect and resilience. All of the stunning photos are accompanied by compelling texts that explore many facets of life and struggles in Galicia. It’s a tour de force.
United States
Deborah Klochko
Dualities
Deborah Klotchko has pulled off something delightful and surprising with her series Dualities. These unusual diptychs deliver pleasant shocks of recognition the longer you spend time with them. Archival negatives of human portraits (negatives always look strange in themselves — revealing unexpected tonal shifts) are juxtaposed with images of celestial objects and phenomena like solar eclipses and images of distant complex galaxies. Klotchko upends our usual sense of scale with the pairings, and triggers associations that invite the viewer to contemplate our own place in “a vast and complex universe.”
United Kingdom
Mark Tamer
Everything is Wrong
Mark Tamer gives us a jarring look at how he perceives the world with what he describes as the “faulty wiring within my neuropathic pathways.” He makes splendid use of analog photography, experimentation, and unexpected comparisons to share his daily lived experience. He says, “This experience has gifted me ability to slow down, to find beauty in the quiet moments and to appreciate the complexity of the human brain and how it carefully constructs our reality.”
How are the Top Ten chosen? Photographers who were selected by more than one critic and/or had the highest cumulative ratings of all submissions became our Top Ten. They will each receive a $1000 grant in recognition of their work, and they will be part of a group exhibition in New York in 2026.
Selected by
Markus Hartmann
Hartmann Books & Projects
Spain
Carlos Folgoso Sueiro
Beyond The Lake
Sueiro’s pictures have a certain ambiguity that I always search for in photographic series. They are mysterious and dark but each picture is visually convincing and the series in total makes me wonder how the story continues. Even though the story behind the series is quite personal, the pictures are open to the viewer’s own mysteries and imagination. Truly a discovery for me.
Germany
Christine Erhard
Building Images
I am always interested in architectural, abstract and conceptual photography and also have a weakness for experimental approaches that help to expand the two dimensional limitations of photography. Erhard’s work combines all these fields for me. Using pictures from architecture magazines and other found pictures, deconstructing and reconstructing them in her studio and then reshooting them to create a surprising and bewildering new analog-created picture convinced me to make Christine Erhard one of my picks.
Canada
Kyler Zeleny
Bury Me in the Back Forty
I knew Zeleny’s work in advance and I like the style of his documentary photography and choice of topics. Even though his books are published with another publisher, I cherish his style, the quality of composition, sequencing and language. His images go far beyond the normal documentary approach of most contemporary photographers.
Selected by
Marta Weiss
Photography Victoria and Albert Museum
United Kingdom
Sean Cham
Eastern Promise
I like the complex layers of this picture, which reveal the artificial nature of the central historic photograph. This recreation is staged in a contemporary studio, which is in turn housed within a domestic setting. I appreciate the meticulous attention to composition and colour, with the cut paper leaves improbably extending from the surrounding room into the frame of the central sepia-toned photograph. This self-reflexive picture playfully exposes the artifices of photography while also exploring the legacies of colonialism.
Canada
Kyler Zeleny
Bury Me in the Back Forty
Is an enormous chunk of building about to fall on that pickup truck, its occupants blithely unaware of the impending doom? No, on closer inspection, the truck is actually parked at a safe distance from the collapsing structure. Nonetheless, this image caught my eye as an unsettling depiction of rural life on the cusp of disintegration.
United Kingdom
Paul Yule
The New Incas
I was initially attracted by the formal qualities of this photograph: its stark simplicity, the compositional balance between the standing and seated figures, and the delicate rendering of the various textures of the newspaper, the shiny shoes and the nubbly sweater. It also made me reflect on the act of photographing others – while one figure meets the camera’s gaze, the other is obscured by a newspaper, but both are equally available to the viewer’s scrutiny.
Selected by
Maysa Moroni
Internazionale
United Kingdom
Alice Poyzer
Other Joys
Poyzer’s autobiographical work is as intense as her special interests. In her powerful self-portrait, Alice stares defiantly at us, surrounded by stuffed animal heads (one of her other joys is taxidermy) while a moving portrait of her father, photographed from behind, shows his head covered with butterflies. Poyzer uses photography consciously and skillfully, turning it into a tool of liberation to overcome the fear of being different, guiding us on an adventurous and fascinating journey through her mind and passions. In doing so, she breaks the stigma and transforms her neurodivergence into a strength.
United States
Josh Aronson
Florida Boys
There’s something nostalgic about Josh Aronson’s series, an air of eternal youth. The imagery evokes coming-of-age stories, but it’s the subtle twist in the narrative that captivates me: these groups of young men, beautifully photographed against the landscapes of Florida like tableaux vivants, don’t feel like the usual gangs of young males. Instead, in the way they interact—in the detail of a hug—there’s a tenderness and a sense of a different masculinity unfolding, one that I believe we all need.
United States
Jorg Meyer
Portraits of the Queer Community
We all need a community to belong to, and Meyer reminds us of this with his series of portraits, which together form an unconventional family album. The choice of the staged, classic (or traditional, if you will) portrait reinforces his message as he presents Lucas, for example, with high heels and a leopard-print fur, or Mads with a python as a pet. Meyer invites us into their homes as if we were already friends or family. What defines a family or a community? The ability to connect, mutual love. This is what shines through in every single shot of this tender series.
Selected by
Mazie Harris
Getty Museum
Russian Federation
Gulnaz Galimullina
Impersonal
The striking palette and patterns of Gulnaz Galimullina’s photographs call attention to the silenced voices of Bashkir communities in Russia. Her series spotlights the burden of preserving the past amidst the turmoil of the present
Spain
Jaume Llorens
Gaia
The disorientation of Jaume Llorens’s imagery feels just right for these topsy turvy times. Arrestingly atmospheric, his haunting monochrome compositions thrum with beauty and with darkness, hovering in the mind’s eye and unsettling your sense of the environments in which we tread.
United Kingdom
KC Nwakalor
Screen Hysteria
Even as the world falls apart, it keeps spinning. The increased awareness that comes with the rise of digital media has done little to lessen the pain and disconnection that trouble our times. KC Nwakalor’s portrait encapsulates a pervasive sense of exhaustion, of desperation—a disquieting reminder that the hypervisibility of anguish does little to alleviate it.
Selected by
Moshe Rosenzveig
Head On Photo Festival
Palestine
Abdelrahman Alkahlout
Unbroken Faith Amidst Genocide
The photograph poignantly contrasts the vibrant colours of the worshippers’ garments with the cold, grey rubble of a mosque destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, embodying resilience amid devastation. In this solemn act of prayer, the community transforms survival into a defiant, sacred ritual that transcends the physical ruins. Abdulrahman AlKahlout’s lens captures not only destruction but also the unyielding spirit of Gaza’s people, where faith becomes both a shield and a form of resistance.
United States
Josh Aronson
Florida Boys
This series compellingly unsettles traditional notions of masculinity by staging tender and vulnerable narratives within a mythologised Americana boyhood, one rarely seen through these eyes. Aronson’s repeated, improvised frames reveal the fragility and fluidity of masculine ideals, exposing how they fracture and transform under scrutiny. By reimagining rural Southern spaces through the perspectives of young men who have been historically excluded, the work opens a vital dialogue about identity, belonging, and the power of visual storytelling to reshape cultural myths.
United States
Anastasia Sierra
The Witching Hour
Anastasia Sierra’s series captures the fragile, shifting boundary between motherhood's waking realities and its dreamlike undercurrents, where tenderness and fear intertwine in a labyrinth of emotions. Her use of vivid colour and textured light evokes the restless nights and emotional weight of caregiving, transforming intimate moments into surreal, almost haunting tableaux. The work speaks to the unspoken vulnerabilities beneath maternal strength, inviting us into a world where love and anxiety coexist in a delicate, unending dance.
Selected by
Robert Morat
Robert Morat Galerie
United Kingdom
Alice Poyzer
Other Joys
Thomas Merton's famous quote, “Art enables us to find ourselves and to lose ourselves at the same time” rings especially true in the case of Alice Poyzer’s work. Her series of self portraits and constructed images are both, an act of self-exploration and an act of liberation for an autistic or neurodivergent woman—as well as a way for the viewer to learn about the world through the author’s lens. Other Joys is a body of work that enriches both the author and the audience.
United States
Aiko Wakao Austin
What We Inherit
Aiko Austin is a Japanese artist currently living in New York, who takes us along on a journey into memories of her own family as well as her roots in Japanese culture—embodied here in the fabrics of historic kimonos that she inherited from her grandmother. Images of these garments are montaged with photographs from family scrapbooks creating photographs that speak of both heritage and the digital present of artistic expression.
United States
Epiphany Knedler
The Specifics Might Be Vague
It is a funny business, remembering. There are the facts of our lives and then there are the stories we like to tell ourselves, and others, about our lives. “Each time we access a memory, we rewrite the moment,” says Knedler. She creates works illustrating this process of reconsolidation by replicating analog images from her family archive and pixilating each by hand, reshaping the image—and the memory it conjures.
Selected by
Sam Mercer
The Photographers’ Gallery
United States
Epiphany Knedler
The Specifics Might Be Vague
A series that exemplifies and questions digital materiality - how images and memories disintegrate through choice, style, technological transfer, context and age. It's a series that leaves more questions than it answers about what photography reveals.
Canada
Erika Schmidt
The White Horse
This whole image feels like a fever dream. Heavily processed and looking like it could have been taken underwater, the star-flashed eye of the white horse somehow collapsing into the red grass. Perfect.
United Kingdom
Timon Benson
Father, About to Leave
A window that drew me in to another time. Voyeuristic and meticulously composed, the framing acts like an old television showing a future that is yet to be seen. It’s a reflective image that I can get lost in the details of for a long time.
Selected by
Steven Evans
FotoFest International, Houston
United Kingdom
Alice Poyzer
Other Joys
Surreal and gothic, Poyzer’s series Other Joys fascinates and mystifies. This is a series that ask questions and poses mysteries, keeping the viewer returning for answers that may never come forward.
Brazil
Asafe Ghalib
Queer Immigrants
This is an incredibly strong image communicating on a number of levels simultaneously. Dynamic, detailed, and direct, Ghalib takes the visual vocabulary of fashion photography and imbues it with social meaning.
Mexico
Noel Rojo
Gotas de Fuego
Gotas de Fuego is a fascinating series set in Oaxacan cantinas. Rojo fills the frame with drama and color, showing a world in which senses are heightened. I want to be inside these images, with their inhabitants and their stories.
Selected by
Yuri Yamada
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Iran
Ebrahim Alipoor
Bullets Have No Borders
As we gaze upon the quiet, towering presence of the Zagros Mountains—situated along the border between Iran and Iraq—we begin to notice a human figure within the landscape. This person, positioned in a geographically and politically perilous terrain, is a Kolbar: a professional porter engaged in smuggling goods across the Kurdish regions of western Iran. This mystical image, which at a glance could even be mistaken for a pilgrimage, stands as a symbol of global realities and the conditions faced by migrants around the world.
United Kingdom
Kate Watson
Here We Are Spring II
Standing in nature, two figures hold mirrors that transform their own faces into reflective surfaces. What might these mirrors signify? Though still images, the mirrors seem to convey the rustling of leaves, the calls of birds, and the presence of small creatures passing by. It feels as if we are peering into their dreams—evoking a sense of infinite imagination.
United Kingdom
Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom
Lois & Carey
United Kingdom
Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom
Lois & Carey
When we consider the coexistence of individuals with diverse attributes, we can often feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and complexity of categories. And yet, each of us is inherently complex, and that should be accepted as it is. Nevertheless, the series Lois & Carey expresses the intricate tensions that arise within a single family with a touch of humor and sincerely celebrating the possibility of coexistence.
“It’s invigorating to spend time with such a wide range of work from across the world. Immense gratitude to the photographers out there who persevere in their dedication to taking and making compelling images that help the rest of us to reframe our perceptions.”
Mazie Harris
Associate Curator, Getty Museum
Associate Curator, Getty Museum
Mazie Harris
Getty Museum
Jamie Spence
Vogue
Asha Iman Veal
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Yuri Yamada
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Sam Mercer
The Photographers' Gallery
Moshe Rosenzveig
Head On Photo Festival
Arianna Rinaldo
Curator, PhEST
Marta Weiss
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cassidy Paul
Aperture
Robert Morat
Robert Morat Galerie
Diane Smyth
British Journal of Photography / Photoworks Annual
Andreas Müller-Pohle
European Photography
Markus Hartmann
Hartmann Books & Projects
Maysa Moroni
Internazionale
Jim Casper
LensCulture
Gwen Lee
Singapore International Photography Festival
Steven Evans
FotoFest International
Ann Jastrab
Center for Photographic Art
István Virágvölgyi
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Thank You!
Congratulations to all 41 winning photographers! And sincere thanks to every photographer who participated, and to each of the experts who contributed their time and expertise.