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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Daylight Photo Awards is Elliot Ross.
Elliot documents the stark inequities of power and access across rural and racial lines within the Navajo Nation–the largest Native reservation in the U.S. Elliot Ross will receive a $2500 cash prize in addition to the creation of a digital portfolio and the chance to publish a book.

Women Photograph is thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2025 grants: the Women Photograph Project Grants of $5,000 have been awarded to Teala Elise Avery, Chloé Azzopardi, Elsie Haddad, Nicola Muirhead, and Melissa Ann Pinney. The Women Photograph + Leica Grant of $10,000 has been awarded to Chinky Shukla.

Photo Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier are delighted to announce the winner of the Prix Elysée 2025: Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi for her series Why Don't You Dance?

The Center for Photographic Art and Lenscratch are pleased to announce that Marni Myers is the 2025 Paula Riff Award winner! We received hundreds of submissions for this year’s competition from photographers across the country and around the world. Juror Paula Tognarelli had no small feat selecting a single artist for this award.

Created in 2018 by Forestry England, the Royal Geographical Society and Parker Harris, Earth Photo is a world-leading programme engaging with still and moving image makers to showcase the issues affecting the climate and life on our planet.

Out of over 1,582 entries, a judging panel made up of experts from the fields of photography, film, geography and environment selected the Earth Photo 2025 shortlist: 195 images and 8 videos by 40 photographers and filmmakers from around the world. A selection of outstanding photography and film projects were chosen as the Earth Photo 2025 award winners.

Earth Photo 2025: Lorenzo Poli for Autophagy.

We can’t think of a better day than Nature Photography Day to announce this year's Grand-Prize-winning image, Lemur’s Tough Life, photographed by Donglin Zhou of Hangzhou, China! This incredible image captures the moment a Common brown lemur makes a harrowing leap from one towering cliffside to another while carrying her baby on her back.