Awards

In its first year, the World Sports Photography Awards has attracted a wide array of powerful and technically brilliant snaps that capture the emotion, raw energy, and pure spectacle of sports ranging from heavyweight boxing to handball.

Focusing on the weird and experimental, the 2020 Creative Photo Awards aims to set new trends and reward visionary artists. This year’s winners are no exception, bending techniques and processes to deliver some truly spectacular works of art.

In one of global photography social network Agora’s strongest contests to date, over 9,000 entries celebrating breathtaking aerial perspectives were whittled down to a top 50, from which a single winner was chosen by popular vote.

Pablo Albarenga has won the Photographer of the Year prize in the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards for an incredible series entitled Seeds of Resistance, contrasting portraits of environmental activists with the territories they are trying to protect.

This year’s International Photography Awards One-Shot contest focused on how a single image can convey the concept of movement. The array of celebrated shots illustrate the sheer spectacle of humans, animals and machines in various states of motion.

Photography social network Agora’s latest photo contest tasked its community with capturing unique perspectives on the extraordinary worldwide lockdown. The results offer a diverse portrait of people from all over the world sharing a strange experience.

The AIA COTE Top Ten Awards offers an opportunity to check out some of the best new sustainable architecture in the US. This year includes a renovated headquarters for Etsy with recycled materials and a library with a rainwater collection system.

The 2020 BigPicture photography competition winners deliver some of the most impressive nature photography in the world, from a gorgeous grand prize winning shot of a hare sheltering itself to a mind-bending snap of a cheetah almost catching its prey.

Agora's latest photography contest concentrates on the built environment, spanning everything from ancient historical sites to incredible modern skyscrapers, with a spectacular shot of Vietnam’s iconic Golden Bridge winning the popular vote.

In its sixth year, the Fine Art Photography Awards continues to deliver an incredible spread of images. From sublime drone shots to psychedelic microscopic imagery, here are the highlights from the massive trove of winning and nominated photographs.

Now in its fifth year, The Mind’s Eye is online photography magazine All About Photo’s annual competition. The winning and celebrated images this year span from photojournalism to abstract art, with a fascinating focus on the strange or uncanny.

After receiving a record-breaking 350,000 submissions, the Sony World Photography Awards has revealed the best single images from its 2020 competition. This year’s winning images feature a spectacular array of the world’s most impressive photographs.