LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025

Enter the Street Photography Awards 2025

Submit

LensCulture invites you to enter the Street Photography Awards and share how you see the world. From fleeting gestures to monumental scenes, your images can echo far beyond the instant they were captured.

Selected photographers will receive international recognition, career-changing opportunities, cash awards, a group show in New York, and a place among the voices shaping street photography today. Every vision matters—submit your work and join a global community celebrating the art of seeing.

Winning photographers will be exhibited at a gallery in New York during The Photography Show (Spring 2026), the eminent photo fair that brings together hundreds of galleries, publishers and collectors, as well as an ambitious program of exhibitions, conversations, artist book signings and curated fair events.

Prizes:

SERIES PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: $3,500
2nd Place: $2,000
3rd Place: $1,000
SINGLE IMAGE PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: $2,000
2nd Place: $1,000
3rd Place: $500
JURORS' PICKS
Each juror will select an individual Juror's Pick to receive special distinction, including quotes from the experts praising each of the selected series or single images.
25 FINALISTS
25 Finalists and their work will be highlighted and featured on the winners’ page, and in the worldwide promotions, along with the Winners and Jurors’ Picks.

Eligibility:

All

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

All photographers retain full copyright for their work. Photographers grant LensCulture limited, restricted use of winning photos only to promote the photographers themselves and in connection with marketing the Awards competition itself.

Theme:

Cityscapes Architecture Black and White Culture Multi-categories