The IPA 2026 Winners Have Been Revealed!
A huge congratulations to this year's winners.
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Congratulations to all IPA 2026 Winners!
The International Photography Awards are delighted to announce the category winners and finalists in its 2026 Photography Competition for the professional and non-professional/student categories.
A stellar international jury of renowned photography experts judged more than 14,000 entries from 139 countries around the world to finally select these outstanding category winners, each of whom are in the running to receive the IPA’s top two prizes—Photographer of the Year for the professional categories, and Discovery of the Year for the non-professional / student categories.
Thank you to everyone who participated, we truly appreciate your work and the unique perspective that you brought to this event.
22nd Annual IPA Awards and Photo Festival in Athens, Greece
SPOTLIGHT
IPA 2026 GUEST CURATOR
Elizabeth Krist
Elizabeth Krist was a photography editor at National Geographic magazine for over 20 years, and is now on the board of Women Photograph, advises the Eddie Adams Workshop, and is a contributing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review. Until recently she was on the board of the W. Eugene Smith Fund. She curated the Vision(ary) 2026 summer public art exhibition for the Griffin Museum of Photography, and spoke at the DOK Photojournalism Festival in June. She was a juror for the 2026 Alexia Grants. She also curated National Geographic Society’s Women of Vision exhibition and book, the latest Women Photograph annual, an online auction for Christie’s, and five Photoville installations. Elizabeth is a member of the curators group Oracle and recently edited two 2026 books with Michael Yamashita. She has freelanced for The New Yorker and Magnum Photos, and helped program National Geographic’s Photography Seminar for more than ten years. She teaches for ICP, and collaborates with the New York Portfolio Review, Joop Swart Masterclass, CatchLight, Apple, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. NPPA recognized her with their 2025 Outstanding Leader Award.
Photo credit: Lynn Johnson
The 2025 Annual IPA Book is out now!
The 2025 Annual International Photography Awards book features the amazing work of all first, second, and third place winners in both the professional and non-professional categories of the 2024 IPA competition along with the names of the Honorable Mentions.
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Hossein Farmani
The Lucie Awards, IPA
Michael Zajakowski
Photo Editor
Amy Salzman
SAATCHI & SAATCHI NY
Annette Fausboll
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