Winners 2025

On behalf of the entire team, we would like to thank you for all the great submissions.

Our jury chose the 20 projects from a total of 332 submissions from 43 countries using a points system. This year’s theme “Life After Extinction?” definitely posed a challenge, but this made all the submissions we received all the more ambitious and creative. We would therefore like to thank everyone who took part in the open call and congratulate the 20 winners.

These are the 20 winners, from 15 different countries, and the names of their projects (in alphabetical order by last name):

Abdelrahman Alkahlout, Regina Anzenberger, Leen Aoun, Victoria Margarita Ahrens, Mia Baraka, Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez, Olesya Gonserovskaya and Dmitry Koldyaev, The Hays, Tamara Kalo, Alicja Lesiów, Haohui Liu, Craig Mehra, Ella Morton, Andrew Rovenko, Tim Rod, Aindreas Scholz, Jorden Senior, Maryna Shchehelska, Tanya Traboulsi, Carlotta Valente

GRAND PRIX WINNER: ELLA MORTON (CANADA)

This year’s Grand Prix winner, the project with the highest jury ranking scoring 48 out of 54 points, is Ella Mortons “The Residue of Starlight” (2025).

“The Residue of Starlight” examines the desert landscapes of Northern Chile, New Mexico and Western Australia. All three locations face similar risks of increasing temperatures, droughts and wildfires as the climate crisis intensifies. All are also home to cultures that have a distinctly strong connection to the sky, stars and universe beyond Earth. Captured on a large-format camera, these photographs feature mordançage, film soup and the use of decades-old expired films. Combining these processes on the colour film plane produces otherworldly, yet tactile visuals- a collision of the tangible and intangible. Conjuring psychedelic dreamscapes, these images examine the deep rapport with the numinous that is palpable in the desert, more now than ever at this threshold of ecological collapse.