International Portrait Photography Awards 2025

The best portraits of the best photographers

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At the IMAGO Institute, we are excited to announce the second edition of the International Portrait Photography Awards!

This competition seeks to recognize the best photographers from around the world working in the portrait genre from its various perspectives: conceptual, anthropological, self-portrait, documentary, street, experimental, and more.

We hope these awards will help photographers of all levels achieve international recognition and thus achieve significant advancement in their creative careers.

Only photographs that address the portrait genre will be accepted.
The subject matter is open to all techniques, subgenres, or subcategories.
Photographs will have no restrictions regarding editing and/or manipulation.
Synthetic pictures (generated using artificial intelligence models) will not be accepted.

Prizes:

Cash prizes
1st Place
$20,000.0 MXN

2nd Place
$8,000.0 MXN

3rd Place
$4,000.0 MXN

Most voted photo
$2,000.0 MXN

Other prizes
Together with the winners, 30 finalists will be part of an exhibition at the Man Ray Gallery, at the IMAGO Institute, Mexico City.

Eligibility:

The contest is open to all photographers, both amateur and professional, from around the world. Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to participate.

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

We respect the copyrights.
Participants retain all copyrights to their photographs. By participating, photographers grant the IMAGO Institute a limited use of their photographs for the promotion of the contest and the photographers themselves.

Theme:

Open Theme Portrait Self-Portrait