All About Photo announces 2025 award winners

Photographers from over 40 countries submitted thousands of entries. The selected works – ranging from intimate portraits to urgent photojournalism—demonstrate photography’s continued role in documenting and interpreting the human experience. This year’s winners represent 26 countries across six continents. While only 12 of the 50 honorees are women, 2025 marks the second time a woman has been named Photographer of the Year. The top five winners share a $5000 cash prize.

Photographer of the Year 2025 is awarded to Marijn Fidder (The Netherlands) for her deeply humanistic series Inclusive Nation, featuring 15-year-old Husnah Kukundakwe, Uganda’s only classified Paralympic swimmer. The series captures moments from Husnah’s training in Kampala while shedding light on broader issues of disability rights, self-acceptance, and social progress in Uganda.

The All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye is an annual international photography competition that celebrates powerful visual storytelling. Open to photographers of all levels and styles, the contest highlights images that are artistically strong and socially, culturally, or environmentally meaningful.

The judges

• Janet Delaney – Photographer
• Sarah Gilbert – Features photo editor, The Guardian
• Karl Taylor – Photographer & filmmaker, Hasselblad Ambassador
• Tatsuo Suzuki – Street photographer
• Ann Jastrab – Executive director, Center for Photographic Art
• Sandrine Hermand-Grisel – Founder, All About Photo

See some of the photos from this year’s winners!