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When light meets geometry and emotion finds form.
Inspired by the golden ratio

1,000$ Photographer of the year, 500$ for the Phi category winner

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2025 Phi Photo Awards Online Ceremony
2025 Online Award Ceremony

Watch the Winners’ Celebration

Relive the 2025 Phi Photo Awards online ceremony, discover the winning works, and celebrate the photographers featured in this year’s edition.

Categories

The Phi Photography Awards welcomes submissions across a wide range of photographic disciplines, led by the signature Phi-Golden Ratio category, alongside architecture, editorial work, fine art, nature, fashion, mobile photography, and more.

  • Phi-Golden Ratio
  • Architecture
  • Commercial
  • Editorial
  • Event
  • Fine Art
  • Nature
  • People
  • Black & White
  • Minimalist
  • Fashion
  • Advertising
  • Mobile Photography

Awards & Winners

Grand Prize
$1,000
Main Prize
  • Official Certificate of Excellence
  • Annual Catalogue Publication
  • International Online Exhibition
  • Worldwide Media Coverage
  • Winner Logo for Commercial Use
Special Award
$500
Phi Photographer
  • Trophy + Cash Prize
  • Certificate of Excellence
  • Annual Catalogue Publication
  • International Exhibition
  • Media Coverage
  • Winner Logo Usage Rights
For entries exemplifying the golden ratio
Category
$100
Category Winner
  • Official Winner Certificate
  • Digital Gallery Presentation
  • International Catalogue Inclusion
  • Category Winner Logo
Distinction
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Honorable Mention
  • Certificate of Distinction
  • Online Publication
  • International Recognition
  • Digital Portfolio

Now Available

PHI Photo Awards
Annual Book 2025

Featuring 319 award-winning works from 46 countries, the PHI Photo Awards Annual Book 2025 brings together distinctive voices in contemporary photography across ten categories.

Created for photographers, curators and collectors, the annual celebrates the artists behind the images and offers a lasting record of the edition, inspired by the golden ratio and the dialogue between light, form and emotion.

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Judges

The Phi Photo Awards jury brings together photographers, artists, and visual thinkers with international experience across fine art, nature, editorial, conceptual, architectural, portrait, and commercial photography.

Babak Mehrafshar

Babak Mehrafshar

FOUNDER

Awarded photographer, curator, and competition judge with international experience.

Alessandro Scali

Alessandro Scali

Judge

Italian artist exploring art, science, technology, and hybrid visual narratives.

Rémi Masson

Rémi Masson

Judge

Nature photographer specialized in free diving and mysterious alpine waters.

Patrizia Burra

Patrizia Burra

Judge

Photographer with a passionate visual language and expressive artistic vision.

Tomáš Neuwirth

Tomáš Neuwirth

Judge

Award-winning drone photographer known for unusual locations and refined editing.

Gigi Chung

Gigi Chung

Judge

Fine-art photographer creating minimal architectural abstracts and urban forms.

Richard Boll

Richard Boll

Judge

British portrait and commercial photographer, winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize.

Official Badges

Overlay your official transparent seal onto your winning photographs to showcase your achievement across social media, digital portfolios, and professional marketing materials.

Gold Award Seal
Gold
Silver Award Seal
Silver
Bronze Award Seal
Bronze
Selected Award Seal
Selected
Honorable Mention Seal
Honorable Mention