Documentary Photography Awards

AbdelrHman Alkahlout - Faces of Genocide: Gaza’s Silent Testimony

Documents the silent testimony of civilians whose lives have been shattered by relentless violence. Each image reveals not only the visible destruction but also the profound human cost - families displaced, children wounded, hospitals overwhelmed, and prayers carried out among ruins.

Alex Bex - Memories of Dust 

Explores traditional masculinity in his  home state of Texas. This series examines the cowboy, an important male figure shaped by popular culture, and its place in a fast-changing landscape. 

Jim Mortram - Small Town Inertia

A long term project  of a marginalised community’s testimony as they face the harsh realities of successive governments welfare policies, including Austerity in the East of England UK

Tianxiao Wang - The Sea Sustains Us

Lamalera, a village on the southern coast of Lembata Island, Indonesia, has upheld traditional whaling practices for centuries.  The village is caught in a fragile balance, trying to adapt to social and environmental pressures while maintaining its identity.

Ritchie Elder - Dumbiedykes

The Dumbiedykes housing estate is uniquely situated beside Edinburgh’s Old Town and the Scottish Parliament. Built in the early 1960s on condemned tenement sites, Dumbiedykes stands in contrast to its affluent surroundings and continues to spark debate about social inequality in Edinburgh. "After more than twenty years away, revisiting Dumbiedykes challenged me to reconnect with a place that had shaped my early experiences."

Jubair Ahmed Arnob - The Place Where I Used To Play…

... is a personal exploration of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s rapid urbanisation, told through the transformation of Green Model Town—a neighbourhood central to his childhood.

John Harrison – Bellwether

... an ongoing portfolio of social documentary, developed within the Lancashire towns of Great Harwood, Rishton, and Clayton-le-Moors

Jacopo Locarno - Ov'era

Milan’s Malpensa Airport sits in the Ticino Valley, south of the Alps. It is surrounded by vast heathland—low grasses and woods—now under threat from airport expansion - where I was born and raised, in the village of Ferno. This project preserves the image of a threatened heathland—an act of memory before the erasure becomes complete.

Amin Nazari – Anxious Frames

... with a personal crisis coinciding with the COVID pandemic this project is the result of those days; an attempt to document moments where the line between fear and courage, life and death, and individuality and community blurred, guiding me toward a more profound and human experience.

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