Awards

The just-announced winners of the 2019 EyeEm Photography Awards span everything from incredible photojournalism to surreal architectural minimalism.

The annual Nature Conservancy Photo Contest shows off some truly astonishing perspectives on our natural world, from erupting volcanos to peaceful landscapes.

This mind-expanding assortment of images affirm the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year as the world’s top astrophotography competition.

The 2019 Ig Nobels saw awards for those who turned their considerable intellects to everything from cubed wombat poo to thermal asymmetry of the human scrotum.

Open to images from any genre, this unique collection of photographs spans everything from stunning drone snaps to incredible macro shots of insects.

The winners of the 2019 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition offer a peek inside the United Kingdom’s aerial armed forces.

RIBA has announced its shortlist for this year's Stephen Lawrence Prize. Consisting of six projects built to a relatively small budget by lesser-known architecture firms, highlights include a sustainable home made from cork and another that fits into a small awkward plot once used to repair cars.

Anchored by a beautiful grand-prize-winning shot of two children in Tanzania, the iPhone Photography Awards, in its 12th year, presents a stunning collection of images highlighting the incredible quality of modern smartphone photography.

The finalists have been named for this year's 2019 ABB LEAF Awards, which highlights outstanding architecture from around the globe. Though it features the usual big names, such as SOM, Zaha Hadid, and UN Studio, there's also a surprising number of outstanding projects from lesser known firms.

German photographer Lizzy Petereit has won this year’s Macro Art Photo Project with a lovely close-up of an Anemone flower. Other celebrated images in the impressive competition include an extraordinary snap of a tiny snout-nosed beetle, and surreal cross-section of a developing fig fruit.

2019 marks the 10th year of the Audubon Photography Awards, and the introduction of two new prizes – the Plants for Birds Prize and the Fisher Prize. From over 8,000 entries from all over North America, the judges were tasked with choosing just six winners and four honorable mentions.

The art of minimalist photography involves stripping an image back to just a few key compositional elements – be it a color, shape or texture. The images celebrated in this year’s Minimalist Photography Awards highlight how beautiful, and compelling, this deceptively simple aesthetic can be.