Launch of All About Photo Awards 2025

$5,000 Cash Prizes!

Your Chance to Shine!

“To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

The All About Photo Awards 2025: The Mind’s Eye is now open for submissions! Celebrating its 10th edition, this prestigious global photography competition offers photographers an unparalleled opportunity to showcase their talent, gain international recognition, and win substantial cash prizes.

Why Enter the All About Photo Awards?
Whether you’re an established professional or an emerging talent, the All About Photo Awards is your gateway to reaching a global audience. Here’s why this competition stands out:

1. Prestigious Jury Panel
Your work will be evaluated by a world-class panel of jurors, including celebrated photographers and industry leaders such as Janet Delaney: Photographer; Sarah Gilbert: Features Photo Editor The Guardian; Ann Jastrab: Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA; Tatsuo Suzuki: Photographer; Karl Taylor: Photographer & Filmmaker, Hasselblad and Broncolor Ambassador and Sandrine Hermand-Grisel: Photographer, Founder & Editor All About Photo. These esteemed judges have an eye for excellence and the expertise to elevate your career.

2. Significant Cash Prizes
The Top 5 Winners will share a prize pool of $5,000, distributed as follows:

Grand Prize: $2,500
2nd Prize: $1,000
3rd Prize: $750
4th Prize: $500
5th Prize: $250

3. Extensive Global Exposure
50 Winning photographers will receive:
Publication in the AAP Magazine Special Edition 2025 featuring the winning images, with copies available worldwide.
Permanent exhibition in the All About Photo online gallery, a leading platform showcasing renowned and emerging photographers.
Media coverage in prestigious outlets such as The Guardian, National Geographic, The Washington Post, L'Oeil de la Photographie, PetaPixel, South China Morning Post, and more.
Promotion on All About Photo’s social platforms and inclusion in the Winners Gallery.

4. Boost Your Career
Winning or even being shortlisted can catapult your career to new heights. Many past participants have gained representation, book deals, gallery exhibitions, and increased visibility in the global photography scene.

Who Should Enter?
Photographers of all levels and genres are encouraged to participate. Whether you specialize in street, travel, documentary, fine art, or portrait photography, this competition welcomes submissions in color or black and white, using traditional or innovative techniques.

How to Submit
Submission Deadline: February 4, 2025
Where to Submit: HERE.
Submission Fee: $30/3 images - $5/each additional image

Follow in the Footsteps of Legends
Join the ranks of past winners like Julien Chatelin, Marco Gualazzini, Monica Denevan, and Marcus Yam. Their success stories began with this competition—yours could too.
Don’t miss your chance to participate in the All About Photo Awards 2025: The Mind’s Eye. Share your unique vision with the world, gain the recognition you deserve, and take your photography career to the next level.
Submit your work today and become the next name in photography to watch!

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

Launch of All About Photo Awards 2025

$5,000 Cash Prizes!

Your Chance to Shine!

Enter All About Photo Awards 2025 Today!

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