The New York Photography Awards program honors, recognizes, and promotes outstanding photographers worldwide, who share their vision with the world, through the lenses that portray the beauty of immutable reality, along with the dichotomy of Big Apple’s panorama.
Photography is an art form, with the combination of creative dispositions and underlying afternotes. Therefore, we encourage all photographers, from amateurs to professionals, to express themselves through image, and rekindle sparks of the forgotten past with their everlasting visual arts.
Similar to Pygmalion’s time-transcendent sculptures, your creative vision will be enshrined for millennia to come. This is your era to merge past, present, and future within ephemeral imagery.
The New York Photography Awards categories consists of New York Photography, Architecture Photography, Commercial Photography, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, People Photography, Black & White Photography, Minimalist Photography and other special categories, such as Event Photography, Mobile Photography, Film Photography, etc.
The New York Photography Awards aims to redefine and push the boundaries of photography, where every aspect of a still image is carefully taken to reach international standards. Whether you are a professional or amateur photographer, your creativity will shine through the camera lens.
Photographer of the Year (Professional)
Receive the 2026 New York Photography Awards statuette and a $3,000 cash prize
Photographer of the Year (Amateur/Student)
Receive the 2026 New York Photography Awards statuette and a $2,000 cash prize
Category Winners (Professional & Amateur/Students)
$100 cash prize* each
Professional (13 Categories) & Amateur / Student (13 Categories)
Gold & Silver Winners
Printable e-Certificate
Be interviewed and featured on Muse.World, our third-party media partner website
Dedicated winner’s page and social media posts
New York Photographers of the Year: Murat Sengul (Professional) and Alex Pansier (Amateur/Student Category).
Category Winners of the Year: Allan Andersen, Gary Ng, Glenn Goldman, João Coelho, Myriam LEPLAT, Roberto Pazzi, Ryuta Suzuki, Sonka Skerik, Stefan Falke, Yuanfeng Mao
Photographer / Company
Murat Sengul
Category
Editorial Photography - War/Conflict
Country / Region:
Turkey
Photographer / Company
Alex Pansier
Category
Nature Photography - Golden Hour
Country / Region:
Netherlands
Photographer / Company
Ryuta Suzuki
Category
Nature Photography - Macro
Country / Region:
Japan
Photographer / Company
Sonka Skerik
Category
Fine Art Photography - Portrait
Country / Region:
Czech Republic
Photographer / Company
Glenn Goldman
Category
Editorial Photography - Photojournalism
Country / Region:
United States
Photographer / Company
Roberto Pazzi
Category
People Photography - Culture
Country / Region:
Spain
Photographer / Company
Stefan Falke
Category
New York Photography - Book & Publication
Country / Region:
United States
Photographer / Company
Gary Ng
Category
Architecture Photography - Exterior
Country / Region:
Hong Kong SAR
Photographer / Company
Myriam LEPLAT
Category
People Photography - Culture
Country / Region:
Belgium
Photographer / Company
Allan Andersen
Category
Nature Photography - Astrophotography
Country / Region:
Denmark
Photographer / Company
Yuanfeng Mao
Category
Architecture Photography - Cityscapes
Country / Region:
United States
Photographer / Company
João Coelho
Category
Editorial Photography - Documentary
Country / Region:
Portugal
Photographer / Company
Hidenori Sono
Category
New York Photography - Wildlife
Country / Region:
Japan
Photographer / Company
Maxim Shemetov
Category
Editorial Photography - Sports
Country / Region:
Russia
Photographer / Company
Liam Man
Category
Editorial Photography - Environmental
Country / Region:
United Kingdom
Photographer / Company
Julian Wild
Category
Fine Art Photography - Forced Perspective
Country / Region:
Germany
This digital display immerses you in a curated exhibition, showcasing critically-acclaimed images from the 2025 New York Photography Awards gallery. Browse through this exhibition at your personal leisure, feast your eyes upon each breathtaking photograph, and be absorbed in each detailed accompanying caption.
Throughout this exhibition, you’ll discover the awe-inspiring Photographers of Year, Category Winners of the Year, as well as Gold Winners, from the Professional and Amateur/Student divisions.
*Clicking on an image will bring you closer to said image and clicking on the little “i“ icon, at the top right of the screen, will allow you to learn more about that amazing piece.
Ava
Inspired by Galatea, a statue carved of ivory coming to life, the statuette is shaped in the form of a female humanoid, with elements that strongly affirms its' futuristic presence.
Given the name of “Ava”, a variation of Eve, this statuette symbolizes the encapsulated image of an ideogram that has remained resilient throughout the years. Similar to that, we recognize that photographers are able to transcend time through their images, narrating the same tale for years to come.
The design of the statuette is aimed to invoke a sense of eternal permanence with its' pristine, ivory humanoid, along with its' golden or silver embellishments, communicating a sense of chronological transference that images bestow.
As a combination, all these elements signify symbols of excellence, creative vision, and imagery’s ability to elude time boundaries. Much like Pygmalion, whose excellence forged a vision of a forgotten era, we too hope that this statuette symbolizes photographers whose creative visions will lay down roots of this age for posterity.
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The International Awards Associate (IAA) is a group of industry innovators, creators, designers and communications professionals whose commitment is to move the industry forward through discovery and recognition of new and existing talent.
