Black and White Photo Contest 2025 – Submit Your Work & Get Published

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2025 Edition

Are you passionate about black-and-white photography? AAP Magazine is thrilled to announce the launch of its 49th edition, dedicated to the timeless beauty of black-and-white imagery. We invite photographers from around the world to submit their best work for a chance to be published, win cash prizes, and gain international exposure.

Why Black & White?

Black-and-white photography is more than a stylistic choice—it’s a powerful visual language. Stripped of color, your images emphasize composition, contrast, light, texture, and emotion. From stark realism to surreal minimalism, black and white continues to captivate and inspire.

Untitled from the series 'Animals' © Radoslaw Lowicki

What We’re Looking For
AAP Magazine #49 is open to all forms of black-and-white photography:
– Street and documentary
– Fine art and conceptual
– Portraiture and nudes
– Architecture and urban scenes
– Landscape and nature
– Wildlife and fashion

We are looking for cohesive bodies of work or portfolios that showcase a strong vision, narrative, or aesthetic. Please note: Images previously published in AAP Magazine are not eligible.

Awards and Exposure
Selected photographers will:
– Be published in AAP Magazine #49 – Black & White (print and digital)
– Compete for $1,000 in cash prizes
– Receive a free copy of the printed magazine
– Be featured in the AAP Winners Gallery on all-about-photo.com
– Gain international recognition and press coverage
– Have their work promoted across All About Photo’s global platforms and social media

Armed, Free & Unafraid © Janice Milhem

Judging Criteria
Entries will be evaluated on:
– Creativity
– Originality
– Visual and emotional impact

Our editorial team is committed to discovering and celebrating new talent, and our contests are known for launching careers and connecting photographers with industry leaders including editors, curators, publishers, gallery directors, and festival organizers.

Be Seen by a Global Audience
All About Photo is a respected voice in the photography world, known for showcasing both emerging artists and established masters. This is your chance to share your vision and reach a wider audience through one of the industry’s leading platforms.

How to Submit
Visit all-about-photo.com to submit your portfolio. The deadline for entries is June 24.

Don’t miss this opportunity to have your work published in a prestigious photography magazine, win cash prizes, and elevate your career. Share your best black-and-white images and join the ranks of celebrated photographers in AAP Magazine #49 – Black & White.

Note: Previously published work in AAP Magazine is not eligible for submission.

Laundry Room © Arkadiusz Kubisiak

Diana Markosian: Father

By Diana Markosian

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 144 pages

Diana Markosian’s Father is an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.

Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographer’s journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. In Markosian’s first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), the photographer recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s. Father uses both documentary photographs and archives of objects, letters, and vernacular images to probe the fifteen years of absence and separation from the photographer’s childhood. In this voyage of self-discovery, Markosian touchingly renders her longing for connection to a man she barely remembers and who asks her, when she finds him, “Why did it take you so long?”

All About Diana Markosian

Pedro Jarque Krebs: WildLOVE

By Pedro Jarque Krebs

Publisher : ‎ teNeues

2025 | 224 pages

Pedro Jarque Krebs presents WildLOVE, his long-awaited second major photo book. With his colorful photography of wild animals, he occupies a special place in wildlife photography. One of the world's most awarded wildlife photographer captures the animals with his camera in a humorous and almost human way. In this way, he builds up an intimate relationship with each animal: WildLOVE.

Pedro Jarque Krebs is a most awarded wildlife photographer with more than 100 awards to his credit. His aim is to show the beauty and diversity of wildlife, but also to draw attention to the problems and fragility of the animal world.

All About Pedro Jarque Krebs

Ralph Gibson: Photographs 1960-2024

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 552 pages

Travelling widely, Ralph Gibson works primarily in inspired series, associated image reveries in both monochrome and colour, whose titles―The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Days at Sea, and Chiaroscuro―underline the particular poetic sensibility that informs his work. Starting out in 1960 with Dorothea Lange, he made his way to New York in 1967 and was soon considered in the same light as the likes of Larry Clark and Diane Arbus. The photographs and series can of course speak for themselves. But for Gibson there is a philosophy at play behind the image, and in the included short texts he proposes his thesis. Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives―loyal to his Leica, Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. He gets closer to things and meditates on them in a way that only the silence of the image can attempt.Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this book offers the fruit of more than six decades of image-making. From Gibson’s first photographs in San Francisco, Hollywood, and New York in the 1960s right up to the present day, this is the most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed photographer.

All About Ralph Gibson

Robert Frank: Portfolio

By Robert Frank

Publisher : Steidl

2025 | 40 pages

Before The Americans redefined documentary photography, a young Robert Frank (1924–2019) arrived in the United States in 1947 with a modest yet pivotal collection of images: his first portfolio. Created to showcase his talent and secure employment, this selection of 40 photographs—taken between 1941 and 1946—offers an intimate look at the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers.

Now reproduced in facsimile for the first time in over a decade, Portfolio captures the essence of Frank’s early vision. Rural Swiss landscapes stand alongside bustling street scenes, antique shops, fine fabrics, and the glow of cinema lights—subjects that hint at the keen observational eye that would later define his work. Also included are images Frank retouched for other photographers, revealing his technical precision.

Designed in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, this edition stays true to Frank’s original presentation, housed in a softcover within a cardboard envelope, just as he would have stored and carried it. In many ways, Portfolio serves as his first photobook, laying the foundation for the sequencing and storytelling approaches that would culminate in masterpieces like The Americans and The Lines of My Hand. More than a collection of early work, it is a testament to the beginnings of a groundbreaking artistic journey.

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