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“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Step into a world of creativity and recognition with the 11th edition of the All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye. For over a decade, we have provided photographers from around the world with a global platform to showcase their work, gain international exposure, and compete for over $100,000 in prizes awarded to date. Prizes: Winners will receive $5,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition. The grand prize is $2,500, the 2nd prize is $1,000, the 3rd prize is $750, the 4th prize is $500, and the 5th prize is $250! All 50 winners will have their work published or showcased in the All About Photo Winners Gallery, newsletter, social media, and will be feat...

Solo Exhibition December 1 - 31, 2025 A Profound Look at a World in Transition: Curated by Ed Kashi All About Photo is proud to announce Antonio Denti as the winner of the December Solo Exhibition Contest, selected by internationally acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi. His long-term project, “Notes from the Edge,” offers a striking and poetic exploration of what it means to live in a world caught between collapse and rebirth. A Profound Look at a World in Transition In “Notes from the Edge,” Denti turns his camera toward the uncertain times we are all experiencing. His photographs describe a world where the old has already faded but the new has yet to fully emerge — a suspended, fragile moment in history defined by transition, turmoil, hope, and fear. The project examines multiple layers of contemporary life: global events, climate concerns, economic tensions, emotional states, and the fragile web of human relationships. Across borders and contexts, Denti notices the same und...

From bustling city streets to quiet sidewalks around the world, the 25 winning photographers of AAP Magazine #52: Street, representing 15 countries across 5 continents, highlight the vibrant diversity and creative vision of contemporary street photography. Selected from an international call for entries, these talented street photographers capture everyday life, urban moments, and human interactions with authenticity, precision, and artistic insight. Discover the compelling work of this year’s award-winning street photography winners from around the globe. This year’s winners showcase a remarkable diversity of approaches. Some photographers embrace classic documentary traditions, capturing spontaneous interactions and unguarded human moments. Others explore the street through bold color, shadow, graphic compositions, or conceptual approaches that highlight fleeting gestures, urban geometry, and the quiet rhythms of city life. Their photographs reveal humor, poetry, tension, and bea...

Get International Exposure and Connect with Industry Insiders, Art Collectors and Potential Buyers Want Your Own Solo Photography Exhibition? Here's How to Get Featured Worldwide Each month, one talented photographer is selected for a Solo Exhibition on All About Photo’s dedicated showroom pages — offering unparalleled visibility to a global audience of collectors, editors, curators, and photography lovers. Next Exhibition Dates: January 1–31, 2026 Why You Should Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition At All About Photo, we believe great photography deserves to be seen. Whether you’re a professional or an emerging photographer, this is your chance to have your work showcased in a powerful, month-long online exhibition. This isn’t just another online feature — it’s a launchpad. What You Get if Selected Solo Exhibition for One Month Your work is featured across our website — including our home page, exhibition gallery, and global photography directory. Excl...

Nature photography is a captivating genre that celebrates the beauty and diversity of the natural world. It embraces landscapes, wildlife, flora, and fauna — each offering its own visual poetry and emotional depth. Landscape photography captures the grandeur of mountains, rolling hills, lakes, waterfalls, and coastlines, as well as the quiet power of man-made structures reclaimed by nature. Wildlife photography reveals the behavior and spirit of animals in their natural habitats, from tropical rainforests to arid deserts. Flora and fauna photography highlights the intricate colors, textures, and patterns of plants and living organisms, showcasing the delicate artistry of the natural world. Across all its forms, nature photography seeks to convey the harmony and fragility of our planet. It invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the environment — inspiring awareness and a deeper respect for the wonders that surround us. Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards,...

All About Photo is pleased to present ‘Gutter Duchess’ by F. Bessma Rhea as the winning project of our November 2025 Solo Exhibition. Maybe to be a woman is to be hollowed out – or maybe to be a woman is to sing.” Through her raw and poetic lens, F. Bessma Rhea presents Gutter Duchess, a deeply personal photographic series exploring the dualities of womanhood — fragility and strength, silence and voice, vulnerability and power. The series follows the artist herself and the significant women in her life, each portrait resonating with emotional honesty and magnetic presence. Within these images lies a brutal tenderness — a confrontation with identity, legacy, and the complex beauty of emerging womanhood. Gutter Duchess is ultimately a celebration of matriarchal love and resilience. It embraces the contradictions that define the feminine experience — what is hidden and what is revealed, what is lost and what is fiercely reclaimed. Through powerful imagery and intimate storytel...

24 October - 22 November 2025 at Huxley-Parlour Huxley-Parlour are pleased to present The Red River by British photographer Jem Southam, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. With poetic reflections on the English countryside and its history, The Red River explores rural, post-industrial north-west Cornwall, portraying the intertwining of a manufactured landscape and human industry with nature. First exhibited in 1987 and published in 1989, the series is a seminal project within British photography. The Red River was innovative within contemporary paradigms of photographic technique. It was the photographer’s first resolved work in colour, a practice uncommon in the 1980s. At times, Southam also subverts conventional compositional techniques with radical angles and close distances to the subject matter. Amid these technical transgressions, Southam punctuates the series with traditional landscape imagery which evokes English Romanticism. Made in the 1980s and revi...

Juror: Ed Kashi Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition for a Month-Long Online Showcase At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level. WHY ENTER THE SOLO EXHIBITION? Global Reach: The Solo Exhibition allows you to showcase your work to a wide audience through one of the most dynamic photography portals on the web. Open to All Genres: Whether you're into photojournalism, street photography, fine art, landscapes, or portraiture—this competition welcomes all categories and subjects. Unleash your creativity! For All Photographers: Open to both professional photographers and enthusiasts alike. Submit a cohesive body of work or portfolio that reflects your unique vision. EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS: Featured Solo Exhibition: Your work will be showcased for a full month across our Home Page, Competition Gallery and Photography Exhibition Directory. Exclusive Interview: In-depth...

We’re thrilled to reveal the 25 winners of AAP Magazine #51: Colors, a tribute to the infinite ways photographers interpret and transform the world through color. Color is everywhere — in fleeting light, in the rhythm of city life, in the quiet harmony of nature. It can soothe or provoke, reveal or conceal, invite us in or push us away. Beyond its visual beauty, color holds emotion, memory, and meaning, shaping how we experience life itself. For this new edition of AAP Magazine, we invited photographers from around the globe to explore how color defines their creative vision. The resulting images range from bold, high-saturation compositions that pulse with energy to soft, ethereal tones that evoke calm and introspection. Together, they reveal that color is far more than a visual element — it’s a storytelling force. The 25 photographers featured in this issue represent 16 countries across 4 continents, each offering a unique perspective on how color transforms the ordinary int...

International Travel Photography Contest: Capturing Journeys & Discoveries Early Bird savings end October 17, 2025 Since the earliest days of photography, travel has been one of its most inspiring subjects. From 19th-century explorers documenting new lands to contemporary photographers capturing cultural encounters, travel photography has always been about more than places — it’s about the people, stories, and emotions found along the way. Now, AAP Magazine invites photographers from around the globe to participate in its 53rd edition, dedicated entirely to the theme of TRAVELS. This prestigious international photography competition is open to all artists, whether amateur or professional, who wish to share their journeys and perspectives. The theme is completely open—your work can span landscapes, portraits, street scenes, cultural traditions, or personal stories of exploration. Whether you shoot in digital, film, black and white, or use alternative processes, all techniqu...

All About Photo is thrilled to unveil our October Solo Exhibition, 'Blueprint' by Benita Mayo This project is a deeply personal exploration of memory, loss, and inheritance. Sparked by the sudden passing of my father in 2020, it reflects on the weight of history, the scars of collective trauma, and the fragility of memory. Rooted in Virginia’s complex legacy—from slavery and civil rights struggles to the private wounds carried within families—it weaves together words and images to confront silence, honor resilience, and seek healing through remembrance. BLUEPRINT: Memory is unreliable, and time has a way of bending the truth. I have always been on ajourney to unearth and examine the stories that live within me—some through my own experience, but most through inheritance. When Daddy suddenly passed in 2020, the tectonic plates of my life forever shifted. In an instant, I knew life would never be the same. As I find myself longing to understand the past, the impermanenc...

Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition for a Month-Long Online Showcase At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level. WHY ENTER THE SOLO EXHIBITION? Global Reach: The Solo Exhibition allows you to showcase your work to a wide audience through one of the most dynamic photography portals on the web. Open to All Genres: Whether you're into photojournalism, street photography, fine art, landscapes, or portraiture—this competition welcomes all categories and subjects. Unleash your creativity! For All Photographers: Open to both professional photographers and enthusiasts alike. Submit a cohesive body of work or portfolio that reflects your unique vision. EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS: Featured Solo Exhibition: Your work will be showcased for a full month across our Home Page, Competition Gallery and Photography Exhibition Directory. Exclusive Interview: In-depth insights and uniq...

October 15 – December 19, 2025 Reception Wed, Oct 15, 6–8pm CONTACT Gallery 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205 World-renowned Canadian-Ukrainian photographer Edward Burtynsky is pleased to present the international premiere of Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk’s White Series: Meditations on War in partnership with CONTACT Gallery. The exhibition showcases ten hauntingly beautiful photographs and two high resolution murals, all created during the winter months between 2022-2024, on liberated territories of Ukraine that had previously been occupied by Russian forces. Revealed in a palette of harsh whites, chilled greys, and muted browns, the images of Dondyuk’s White Series demand a breathless kind of contemplation, leaving little room to ignore the stark realities of how both our internal and external landscapes respond to what is left behind after war. The exhibition will be complemented by a fundraising campaign, where 50% of proceeds from the sale of a special donation edition ...

Discover the 25 winners here AAP Magazine is proud to announce its milestone 50th issue, Shapes, featuring a striking collection of photographs that explore form, geometry, and structure in visual storytelling. The issue presents a diverse range of approaches — from minimalism and balance to bold abstraction and inventive perspectives — showcasing how photographers transform everyday patterns into extraordinary images. Selected from hundreds of submissions, the winning series and single images highlight the creativity and vision of the photographers, demonstrating how shape can both anchor and disrupt composition. This edition celebrates artists from 11 countries across 4 continents, underscoring the truly international reach of the competition. From architectural details to fleeting patterns of light, these photographs reveal the endless possibilities of one of the most fundamental elements of art. The winners gain recognition not only in the print edition of AAP Magazine but a...

All About Photo is pleased to present ‘Rural Life in the Hudson Valley’ by Susan Anthony as the winning project of our September 2025 Solo Exhibition. For the past five years, Anthony has been documenting the people and traditions of upstate New York. What began during the pandemic—walking rural roads with her camera and meeting local residents—has grown into an intimate portrait of a community deeply rooted in the Hudson Valley. Her photographs reveal multi-generational families, homeschooling households, and farming communities whose resilience and traditions continue to thrive. The exhibition highlights Anthony’s passion for documenting communities over time, capturing both the quiet rhythms of everyday life and the strength of bonds that connect people to each other and to the land. ‘Rural Life in the Hudson Valley’ is on view in the Solo Exhibition section of All About Photo throughout September 2025. Discover the full Solo Exhibition Here

More information here Our 52nd printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "STREET". Encyclopedia Britannica defines Street photography has "a genre that records everyday life in a public place." Photographers have been documenting their environment since the invention of photography. The image "View of the Boulevard du Temple" by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, shows a Parisian street in 1838. Later encouraged by improvements in the portability and quality of cameras many photographers decided to record urban life. Charles Nègre, Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier Bresson, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Vivian Maier, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston... are amongst the many iconic photographers who captured changes in the fast-paced world of life in towns and cities. Capturing the essence of the urban lifestyle is now both a popula...

Discover the Solo Exhbition Here Solo Exhibition August 1 -31, 2025 I become a mother and stop sleeping through the night. Years go by, the child sleeps soundly in his bed but I still wake at every noise. My father comes to live with us and all of a sudden I am a mother to everyone. As I drift off to sleep I can no longer tell my dreams from reality. In one nightmare my father tells me he’s only got two weeks left to live, in another I am late to pick up my son from school and never see him again. I am afraid of monsters, but instead of running, I move towards them: we circle each other until I realize that they are just as afraid of me as I am of them. My images follow the logic of my dreams, where we are trapped in a strange colorful world, playing a never ending game of hide and seek in a labyrinth of love, care and fears, pushing against its walls, with no way to escape but wake up. This work explores the emotional landscape of caregiving: tenderness, joy, fears, and a co...

First, let me say how much I admire the work All About Photo continues to do, broadly recognized as an essential platform for photographers worldwide. And that’s precisely why I feel compelled to write candidly. There are untold works of portraiture by my contemporaries, younger and older alike, with whom I’d feel honored to share company in a juried competition—even as a runner-up. But in this instance, I was dismayed by the context in which my own work appeared. With respect, I’ve asked that my photographs be withdrawn from the print edition of AAP Magazine #48: Portrait . Robert Flynn Johnson, Emeritus Curator of the de Young Museum © Tom Zimberoff Sour grapes? Nope. My concern is broader—and more pressing. It has to do with how portraiture has come to be ill-defined, misrepresented, and, therefore, contextually misjudged. The First Prize-winner—representing a series of photographs (not just one), while admirable in many ways, is explicitly described by its author as the wor...

Step into East Germany before the Wall fell. Rediscovered after nearly 40 years, Henk Kosche’s haunting black-and-white photos capture the soul of Halle an der Saale in the late 1980s. A rare glimpse into a city—and a way of life—on the brink of disappearance. Discover the Solo Exhibition here Discover the Solo Exhibition here

DEADLINE JUNE 20, 2025 Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition for a Month-Long Online Showcase At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level. WHY ENTER THE SOLO EXHIBITION? Global Reach: The Solo Exhibition allows you to showcase your work to a wide audience through one of the most dynamic photography portals on the web. Open to All Genres: Whether you're into photojournalism, street photography, fine art, landscapes, or portraiture—this competition welcomes all categories and subjects. Unleash your creativity! For All Photographers: Open to both professional photographers and enthusiasts alike. Submit a cohesive body of work or portfolio that reflects your unique vision. EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS: Featured Solo Exhibition: Your work will be showcased for a full month across our Home Page, Competition Gallery and Photography Exhibition Directory. Exclusive Interview: I...

© Franco Zecchin - Brotherhood of Holy Crucifix. Palermo 1988 27 September 2025 – 25 January 2026 Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents an exhibition by Italian social documentary photographer Franco Zecchin from 27 September 2025 until 25 January 2026. The exhibition Life in Sicily features fifty iconic black-and-white photographs taken on the Italian island between 1975 and 1994. During this turbulent period, Sicily faced large-scale mafia violence, political corruption, and social inequality. In 1975, Franco Zecchin moved to Palermo and began his career as a photojournalist for the daily newspaper L’Ora, paying particular attention to the influential mafia organization Cosa Nostra. The engaged photographer captured assassinations, funerals, protests, and the everyday reality of people trying to live in the shadow of this threat. Zecchin’s images reflect an island in crisis and the resilience of its inhabitants. The photographer is c...

Amar Gallery, 12-14 Witfield Street, London, W1T 2RF 29 May - 10 August 2025 Amar Gallery is proud to announce Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames, the first London gallery show for Stephen Shames, photographer of the Black Panther Party, whose archive of Panther images is the largest in the world. For the first time in London, Shames’ powerful civil rights images of Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Maya Angelou and Angela Davis, amongst others, will be on view at Amar Gallery. At a time when racism is on the rise, Amar Gallery hopes this exhibition serves as a reminder that equality has been a struggle for millions often suppressed due to race, gender, or sexuality. Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, who co-authored a book with Shames, said of the tribulations the Black Panthers faced: “They came down on us because we had grassroots, real people’s revolution, complete with the program, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalition...