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World's 10 best pro images now globally recognized at one of the industry’s most prestigious photography awards
NEWS The Sony World Photography Awards 2026 unveiled the winners of the Professional Category, celebrating outstanding photography on a global stage
Using her own image-making language, Mexican photographer beats 430,000 rivals to win Sony World Photography Awards 2026 – plus US$25,000
News One of the world's biggest and most prestigious photography competitions announces the Photographer of the Year winner
This award-winning photo reveals one of the ocean's most invisible threads: "ghost gear" – now the competition returns, looking for your images that dive deep beneath the beautiful
NEWS The Brian Black Memorial Award is open for photo entries, with Digital Camera World joining the judging panel – we look back at 2025's winning image and what it teaches us about powerful photography
Really bad at photography? It's your time to shine with this once-in-a-lifetime $50,000 Icelandic photo opportunity!
News Icelandair seeks a "truly terrible" photographer for a media campaign and the shoddy shooter will get a travel-expenses-paid trip to Iceland and a whopping $50,000 for their amateur work
This macro photographer uses a technique you need to try – 32 images later, he revealed extraordinary hidden detail now recognized in prestigious close-up photo challenge
NEWS A strong macro image thrives on showcasing details invisible to the naked eye – and this photographer achieved exactly that, earning a Finalist spot with 'Parasite'
This 'unreal' image was shot in-camera using a complex dual focal-length long-exposure technique – using a 13-year-old DSLR in complete darkness
NEWS Armed with a full-frame DSLR from 2012, the photographer created this striking effect in-camera – with no heavy editing in post-processing required
"Ice acting as a window into death:" This tragic image of a duck frozen beneath ice in Norway was captured on a Hasselblad film camera
NEWS The photo is almost poetic, with the mallard drake caught partly above and partly beneath the ice – a stark visual divide between life and death, shot on 120 film
This award-winning, upside-down photo of a color-changing spider ambushing a bee relied on an unusual camera feature: A tilting LCD screen
NEWS 'Bee Meal' offers insight into a hidden macro world, where spiders change colors to match their surroundings – all to optimize the hunt, captured on a Micro Four Thirds camera
Incredible image of hyena carrying a zebra's head triumphs in world's largest close-up photography competition as the 'hunter' locks eyes with the lens...
WINNER The winning photographer could hardly have portrayed nature's raw truth more powerfully, shooting with a pro flagship camera and top-tier 600mm super-telephoto in South Africa
From a polar bear on a dead whale to socializing with a robot, these World Press Photo award winners create “urgent portrait of our world today”
AWARDS The winning images from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest tell the stories not just of the world, but of the photographers who endured to capture them
