Featured Photo Contest

Sasha Kurmaz wins the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for Red Horse (Éditions Images Vevey). An ongoing project launched after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Red Horse takes the form of a visual diary, composed of daily collages made from personal documentary photos, found images, notes, drawings, and things found on the street. The work conveys Sasha Kurmaz’s personal testimony about life in Ukraine and how it is constantly reshaped under the destructive power of war as he captures both his personal life and the lives of people around him who are trying to survive in conditions of constant danger.

Onyeka Igwe wins the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award for June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive (Lawrence Wishart). Using original oral history research with BAFTA award-winning curator and film programmer, June Givanni, and other key figures in Pan-African and Black British cinema, author Onyeka Igwe uncovers the important role that women festival organisers, programmers and cultural workers have played in Pan-African cinema history. Through Givanni’s private archive of thousands of films from across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora amassed in a career spanning more than forty years, Igwe offers a way to encounter Pan-African film and preserve Givanni’s work and knowledge for future generations.

The Picto Fashion Photography Award was awarded to Marie Blampain, le19M Award for fine craft photography to Cassandre Lafon, the Fillipo Roversi Award to Jérémie Monnier and the LGA Management / JANVIER Award to Ode.

Congratulations to our 2026 Spotlight Award recipients - Louise Desnos with her project ‘Acedia’, and Laura Pannack with her project ‘The Journey Home From School’.

A Street Photography Competition
Lucie Foundation invites you to join us “on the block”, where stories unfold in the open and every corner hides unexpected beauty. ‘On the Block’ celebrates the unposed, unfiltered, and fleeting moments that define the art of documenting everyday life, whether in dense urban streets or sleepy rural towns. From street photography to urban landscape, this competition seeks images that reveal the quiet truths and vivid stories concealed beneath everyday moments. Join us june 13th at house of Lucie los angeles for the opening reception of the winner and finalist group exhibition!

Ukranian photographer Sergey Melnitchenko receives the PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant Main Prize with the project Frontline Rolls.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is pleased to announce Yael Martínez as the first winner of the newly established Edelman Impact Award in Photography. Martínez will receive a cash prize of $50,000 in recognition of his achievements in photography.