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Deep-sea fish with iridescent blue scales and long fins, entangled in a translucent jellyfish-like creature against a black background
Photographer captures "The Invisible" and wins highest honor in prestigious international competition

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Italian underwater photographer Giacomo Marchione captures millions of organisms rising from the depths to the surface

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On 25 November 2025, a large fire broke out at around 5:20 p.m. in Korail, one of Dhaka's most densely populated informal settlements.
Drone photo of family sheltering in the remains of their burnt-out home wins world's richest photo competition

By Niall Hampton Published

News Bangladeshi photographer bags US$200,000 after winning the grand prize at HIPA in Dubai, UAE

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Black bird touching the nose of a resting walrus in a close-up, high-contrast black-and-white image
The world's biggest close-up and macro photography competition showcases the best images from a record 15,388 submissions

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Discover 5 extraordinary images of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 8 shortlist: from acrobatic chameleons to long-exposure bee captures

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Photographer Luci Carnall's documentation of The Bevy, the UK's only community-owned pub located on a housing estate, wins a Danny Wilson Memorial Award at Photo Fringe 2026
The glorious pub! Photo series of unique community-owned watering hole gets major UK recognition

By Alan Palazon Published

News Photographer Luci Carnall's documentation of The Bevy, the UK's only community-owned pub located on a housing estate, has won a Danny Wilson Memorial Award at Photo Fringe 2026

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A black-and-white photo of trail runner Ida Amelie Robsahm, sweat-soaked and leaning forward with one hand on her thigh, as she climbs through a tightly packed crowd
Why this sports photographer doesn't want to celebrate her award-winning image: "The photo means something different now"

By Tom May last updated

NEWS Ágata Dominguez's Trail Category winner at The Illume Awards shows Ida Amelie Robsahm, who died months after it was taken

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Paraglider flies next to massive, rugged ridge atop monolith.
"This image is about the contrast between the fragility of a human in flight and the raw power of nature," says Illume Award-winning paraglider photographer

By Alan Palazon Published

News French paraglider and photographer Tim Rochas has won the Aerial category of The Illume, a major outdoor and adventure photography contest

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Kayaker Aniol Serrasolses plunges down a waterfall pouring through a notch in a vast wall of blue-white glacial ice, with churning dark water below and a flat white sky above, seen from a drone.
Captured by a drone camera, this kayaker's death-defying plunge off a glacier will have your heart in your mouth

By Tom May Published

NEWS Gonzalo Robert Parraguez's photograph makes a single kayaker look tiny against Svalbard's blue ice

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Clusters of small grey-capped mushrooms with bright, glowing yellow stalks sprout from a dark, decaying log in a dim forest, with tall tree trunks fading into green woodland behind.
Nestled in a Greek forest, these mushrooms aren’t really glowing yellow – but UV light reveals a hidden side to them

By Tom May Published

NEWS Agorastos Papatsanis wowed the Wildlife Photographer of the Year jury with this shot of beautiful bonnet mushrooms.

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James Barnor, Mike Eghan at Piccadilly Circus, London, 1966
Now 96, Ghana’s first photojournalist is a genre-bending storyteller. James Barnor's Outstanding Contribution to Photography

By Hillary K. Grigonis last updated

AWARDS Ghana-born photographer James Barnor is a storyteller across photojournalism, portraits, and street photography

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Black-and-white mountain scene with a lone hiker silhouetted beneath a towering rock overhang, evoking solitude and adventure amid rugged slopes
20 award-winning images chosen in a global vote of over 800,000 – from birds and landscapes to street photography

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Power to the people! Take a look at the People's Choice winners of the British Photography Awards 2026

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