Minimalist Photography Awards 2025 winners revealed

In earlier years, the successful entries of the annual Minimalist Photography Awards have shocked us with their embrace of surrealism and putting simplicity. In 2025, nonetheless, most of the compositions that took podium positions throughout classes inform layered, expressive tales of the human situation, and our connection to the world round us.

Now in its seventh version, the competitors attracted greater than 2,600 entries captured by photographers from over 50 international locations. The judges evaluated some 7,000 pictures spanning 12 classes earlier than conferring the title of Minimalist Photographer of the Year 2025 to Alexandros Othonos for his collection “Threads of Memory’s.” Othonos’ assortment of photographs superbly blends classic household pictures with brightly coloured thread, including a completely new dimension to every composition.

Alexandros Othonos

The younger conceptual photographer, who hails from Greece, famous, “This project is also a retrospective on past times, with my own creative intervention in each photograph. Back then, things were different, and in my opinion, although I didn’t experience most of that era, there was a unique charm to it. As I searched through these photographs, I felt a deep sense of nostalgia and emotion for my family. I believe that anyone who flips through an old family album will feel the same way, experiencing the weight of time and the emotions it carries.”

There’s extra the place that got here from among the many roster of first place entries, together with Giuseppe Gradella’s portrait titled “Past Present”, and Renzo Cicillini’s “Evening Peace” collection within the open class, which “captures this quiet transition between light and dusk, a meditative interval where nature and humanity meet without words.”

Giuseppe Gradella

The winners from different classes, together with Architecture, Landscape, and Photomanipulation, are not any much less beautiful. Feast your eyes on the bunch in our gallery.

Renzo Cicillini

You also can get pleasure from extra images from every successful collection, together with runners up entries, on the Minimalist Photography Awards website. And if you cannot get sufficient visible minimalism, return in time to see a few of our favourite images on this model from 2024 and 2022.

Source: Minimalist Photography Awards