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About the Photography Prize
- Anyone 18+ can apply. All photographic mediums welcome.
- Submit up to 10 images and you’re eligible for the long and shortlist and one step closer to showing your photographs at our exclusive exhibition.
- No restrictions on experience or social / educational background.
- Open for all themes
For the 4th consecutive year, our main sponsor MPB will be awarding the MPB Award to a photographer who embodies their core values. Each month of the open call, 5 nominees that encapsulate this year's theme “Show the bigger picture” will be selected. 1 finalist will be chosen each month by the MPB jury to be eligible for the MPB Award and fast-tracked to the BBA Photography Prize Shortlist. The 4 finalists will also still be eligible for the other BBA Photography Prize awards.
Visual excellence, storytelling, conceptual thinking, technical craftsmanship, subject depth, and understanding – these are just a few aspects that our jury of industry professionals will take into consideration. Whether you are a seasoned photographer with an existing track-record, a promising talent starting your journey, or simply enthusiastic about photography, the BBA Photography Prize 2025 is a great opportunity to show your work.
Exhibition dates: 22 May - 01 June 2025
Big Exhibition. Bigger Benefits
Why is this year bigger than ever?
- It’s our 10 year anniversary! So we want you to be part of the celebrations
- We’re expanding to 3 floors in an iconic Berlin venue to exhibit in
- You can connect with a larger group of artists, photographers, partners, galleries and more
- Even more exhibition opportunities through partners like Mini
- Huge online and offline promotional campaigns - your work seen all over Berlin!
- Features every day with our Photographer of the Day and Week
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BBA Photography Prize
The following information will be requested once you have paid the application fee:
- Name, address, contact information, website
- Statement (300 words max.)
- CV + Exhibitions List
- Work information (Title, medium, size, edition, year of creation)
- Up to 10 images (up to 3 MB per file)
You can upload anytime before the extended deadline on 17th February 2025. You will receive an application link via Email.
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Previous Winners
Vladimir Khorev
In 2024, 1st Prize was awarded to Vladimir Khorev from Russia/Taiwan. The series "Characters" captures the essence of Wanhua District in Taipei, focusing on passers-by near Longshan Temple. By using glass street fencing as an artistic method, Khorev creates semi-surreal images that evoke emotional resonance, emphasising natural light to convey intimate moments of people detached from the city's chaos.
Patty Carroll
In 2023, 1st Prize was awarded to Patty Carroll from the US. By literally and physically camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and an Anonymous Woman. The woman becomes a victim of her obsessions, activities, and circumstances as well as the invisible creator of such; at once satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous.
Vincent van Gaalen
In 2022, 1st Prize was awarded to Vincent van Gaalen from the Netherlands. He travels to the last dark areas of Europe where the nightly darkness has not (yet) been replaced by artificial light. Amidst this darkness – surrounded only by his equipment, a tent, and some provisions – Van Gaalen photographs our human absence.
Jens Juul
In 2021, 1st Prize was awarded to Jens Juul from Denmark for his black and white photo series ’Six degrees of Copenhagen’, which is located somewhere between documentation and artistic portraits and impresses due to its simultaneous harshness and vulnerability.
Gloria Oyarzabal
In 2020, 1st Prize was awarded to Gloria Oyarzabal from Spain. In her works Oyarzabal discusses the infantilisation of African women as part of a Western patriarchal system based on an enormous mistrust of women's autonomy and rationality.
Chirag Jindal
In 2019, 1st Prize was awarded to New Zealand-based photographer Chirag Jindal. His current method explores his subjects through the gaze of terrestrial LiDAR. In ‘Into The Underworld’, Jindal employs this technique to document the lava caves of Auckland -a mythified, dilapidated landscape devastated by a century of rapid urban sprawl. Once the site of burial grounds, war shelters and mushroom farms, the caves are considered wāhi tapu (sacred) by local Māori and are unique to the city’s volcanic region.
