2025 Mobile Phone photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Enamul Kabir (Bangladesh) - WINNERS

2. Gurudas Bate (India) - WINNERS

3. Anton Azev (Montenegro) - WINNERS

Belmin Islam (BiH) - HONORABLE MENTION

Aleksandra Zivanović - FINALISTS

Uschi Groos (Germany) - FINALIST

Ieva Gaile (Lithuania) - FINALISTS

AndreJa Ravnak (Slovenia) - FINALISTS

Samik Mondal (India) - FINALISTS

2025 Conceptual photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Katerina Kouzmitcheva (Belarus) - WINNERS

Katerina Kouzmitcheva is a Belarusian photographer based in Wroclaw, Poland. She works at the intersection of documentary and art photography, focusing on human interaction, memory, politics, and gender roles. Katerina holds degrees in Business Law and Fine Arts and studied at Fotografika and the Opava Institute. She’s a winner of TIFA, BIFA, and a Gaude Polonia grantee. A member of WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH, her work has been exhibited across Europe, Japan, Brazil, and featured in BJP, Bird in Flight, Monovisions, and more.

2. Milica Mrvić (Serbia) - WINNERS

Milica Mrvić is a photographer, art director, artist and a storyteller. She mostly works and enjoys playing in the field of directed photography, designing and art directing different photographic narratives for both personal and commissioned projects, with increasingly frequent trips into the medium of short stop motion animations. Play, freedom, joy and celebration of life are a big part of her creative practice. A seemingly chaotic mess where actualy everything is synchronised in it’s imperfections and oddities. She currently works independently and as part of the Mitz po Flitz studio.

3.Domagoj Burilović (Croatia) - WINNERS

Born in 1987 in Vinkovci, Croatia. Graduated with a M.A. degree in Painting departmant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Split, Croatia. Lives and works in Vinkovci. In his photography, he explores the political and social issues of Slavonia (Croatia) through local history, culture and migrations.

Andrej Verzola (Russia) - FINALIST

I was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After graduating high school, I moved to Poland to study cinematography at the Łódź Film School. Following my studies, I worked in commercial and music video productions before transitioning to text-based media. Right now I mostly spend my time between Tbilisi, Georgia, and Berlin, Germany, and work on a number of long-term photographic projects mostly related to the topic of Russian imperialism and the legacy of the USSR in post-soviet states.

Armin Graca (BiH) - FINALISTS

Armin Graca (1990) is a photographer and storyteller born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Graca uses his camera to document everyday social life, telling stories through visual experience. Street and documentary photography are his main interests, and he spends most of his free time taking photos on the streets. In addition, he works on long-term documentary projects. In 2023, he won the First prize at the Brussels Street Photography Festival and a Grand Prix award and First prize at the Sarajevo Photography Festival. He is currently based in Belgrade, Serbia.

Ivan Buvinić (Croatia) - FINALISTS

Ivan Buvinić was born in 1994 in Šibenik (Croatia). He completed his undergraduate studies in Cinematography in 2020 and graduated in Photography from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 2022. In 2022, he became a member of the European photographic platform Futures Photography. In 2023, he received the Marina Viculin Award for outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary photography in Croatia, presented by the photographic organization Organ Vida. He has had several solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.

Katarina Kolenc (Slovenia) - FINALISTS

Katarina Kolenc (1994) graduated in photography at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (VIST)
in Ljubljana. Her original projects are based on documentary recording of everyday moments of life
and the little peculiarities of her surroundings, which she later develops into documentary and/
or conceptual stories, which she often expands by adding various objects or installations. She is cucurrently completing projects that relate in one way or another to the theme of consumerism, creating and exploring visual forms that relate to collective memory.

Mariam Magsi (Pakistan) - FINALISTS

Karachi-born, Toronto-based multidisciplinary photographer, writer and educator of Baloch-Punjabi descent.

Mitar Simikić (BiH) - FINALISTS

Mitar Simikić is a documentary photographer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mitar is represented by VII Photo Agency (mentee) for 2023-2024 and is a VII Academy Scholarship Recipient. His work has been recognized through awards and grants such as the VID Grant Financial Prize, The Everyday Project, Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Sarajevo Photography Award, and Kolga Tbilisi Photo. His work has been featured in numerous publications around the world, and he has been showcased at various festivals and exhibitions.

Saurabh Narang (India) - FINALISTS

Saurabh Narang (b. 1986, Delhi) is an Indian photographer and multimedia journalist based in Germany. He explores human stories of migration, global cultures, and climate change. saurabh\'s work has been featured in festivals, publications, and exhibitions internationally and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Manufactum Staatspreis NRW in 2023 and the IPF Portrait Prize in 2018.

2025 Life photography - Finalists and Winners

2025 Landscape photography - Finalists and Winners

2025 Documentary photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Robin Tutenges (France) - WINNERS

Born in 1995, Robin Tutenges is a multi-awarded French photographer, member of the Hors Format collective, working mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe. His work focuses on crises and their consequences, with a focus on human rights violations. He has, for example, covered the Xinjiang camp survivors in Kazakhstan, the skateboarding community in Ukraine, and revolutionary movements in Bangladesh. Since 2022, he has documented Myanmar’s resistance. His work has notably been published in The Washington Post, Le Monde, and The Guardian.

2. Marijn Fidder (Netherlands) - WINNERS

Marijn Fidder (b. 1997, The Netherlands) is a Dutch documentary photographer who focuses on current affairs and contemporary social issues. She uses photography to speak on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Netherlands, CNN Style, NRC Handelsblad, Het Financieele Dagblad, Evangelische Omroep, GUP New Talent and Die Zeit, among others.

3. Carola Cappellari (Italy) - WINNERS

Carola Cappellari is a documentary photographer whose work begins autobiographically, with the stories and circumstances of close people and acquaintances as a starting point to explore broader concepts of identity, family, belonging, and migration. She graduated from the UAL Documentary Photography program, and her work has been exhibited internationally in Europe and beyond. In 2023, she was among the finalists of the Canon Development Program and received an honorable mention from the Lucie Foundation with her collaborative project \"Sons of the Sun\".

Matteo Trevisan (Italy) - HONORABLE MENTION

Matteo Trevisan (1991) is a photographer and videomaker from Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) who has been represented by Contrasto agency since 2021. Born and raised in a border area between Italy and Slovenia, Trevisan develops long-term projects on social and ecological issues with an anthropological approach to the territory. In 2024 he published his first photo book, \"I Guardiani della montagna - We are still dreaming\" (Danilo Montanari Editore), which explores the struggles of young people in the NO TAV movement, accompanied by a text by the writer Erri De Luca.

Blaž Gutman (Slovenia) - FINALISTS

Blaž Gutman (b. 1990) is a Slovenian photographer, whose work focuses on the palimpsest of time in both commercial and personal projects. He obtained his MFA in Photography at the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster (Northern Ireland). As a photographer, he works for the National Museum of Slovenia, Museum and galleries of Ljubljana and the newly established contemporary art gallery Cukrarna. His photographs are held at the documentation offices of various museums in Slovenia and are also part of many publications and catalogues.

Isabelle Hayeur (Canada) - FINALISTS

Isabelle Hayeur is known for her photographs and her experimental videos. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. Since the late 1990s, she has been probing the territories she goes through to understand how our contemporary civilizations take over and fashion their environments. She is concerned about the evolution of places and communities in the neoliberal sociopolitical context we currently live in.

Giuseppe Cardoni (Italy) - FINALISTS

Lives in Umbria, Italy. He is co-author, with Luca Cardinalini of the photographic book “STTL La terra ti sia lieve”, with Luigi Loretoni, he published in 2008 “Miserere”, in 2011 “Gubbio, I Ceri” and in 2014 “Kovilj”. Also in 2014 he published \"Boxing Notes\". In 2019 he has published “Jazz Notes\". In 2020 he published \"Life and Death - Mexican Rhapsody\", in 2021 “Passion for Sport”, in 2023 \"In and out of the ring\" and \"Metropolitan Fragments\". Winner or finalist in many national and international competitions

Mario Heller (Germany) - FINALISTS

Mario Heller is a Berlin-based Swiss photographer and photo editor. Beginning his career as a pastry chef, Mario transitioned to photography in 2015, dedicating himself to discovering and sharing compelling stories from around the globe. In 2021, Mario expanded his career by joining Tagesspiegel, the leading Berlin newspaper, as a staff photographer and photo editor. Since 2023, Mario has become a full member of the photography agency Panos Pictures, which represents him and distributes his stories on an international scale

Matic Zorman (Slovenia) - FINALISTS

Matic Zorman is a photographer dedicated to capturing social and humanitarian issues worldwide, starting as a freelance photographer in 2008.
He has since worked on assignments with clients such as various NGOs, The European Commission (DEVCO), The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, The Economist, L’Express, The Independent, and others, valuing his punctuality and aesthetic approach.

Zifan Zhang (China) - FINALISTS

Zifan Zhang (b.1996) is a Chinese documentary photographer who focuses mainly on the social and cultural impact of societal changes in contemporary China and within post-Soviet space through long-term projects.

2024 Portrait photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Peter Pflügler (Austria) - WINNERS

2. Polina Soyref (Estonia) - WINNERS

3. Katerina Churbakova (Cyprus) - WINNERS

Aruallan (France) - FINALISTS

Erçin Ertürk (Turkye) - FINALISTS

Frédérique Gélinas (Canada) - FINALISTS

Matej Jurečvić (Cro) - FINALISTS

Mouneb Taim - FINALISTS

Tatsiana Shcharbinina (Portugal) - FINALISTS

2024 Wedding photography - Finalists and Winners

2024 Fashion photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Renata Brzić (Serbia) - WINNERS

2. Madeleine Brunnmeier (Germany) - WINNERS

3. Mario Ilić (BiH) - WINNERS

Agneza Dorkin (IT/CRO) - FINALISTS

Natalia Dudek (Poland) - FINALISTS

Rebeka Legović (HR) - FINALISTS

Sevil Cetin (Türkiye) - FINALISTS

2024 Mobile Phone photography - Finalists and Winners

1. Monia Marchionni (Italy) - WINNERS

2. Michael Banifatov (Israel) - WINNERS

3. Bruce Strong (USA) - WINNERS

Ana Tabaković - FINALISTS

Darin Ramic Mazalovic - FINALISTS

MXPRIVÉ - FINALISTS

Octav Varzariu (Rumunia) - FINALISTS

Radić Marina (BiH) - FINALISTS

Stefan Vogt (Switzerland) - FINALISTS