Sequence Winner – 1st Place: “Nirvana” by Daesung Lee, France
The 2025 LensCulture Portrait Awards have revealed a exceptional assortment of portraits from world wide, every telling compelling tales of identification, resilience, and emotion.
The profitable photos span cultures and environments, capturing moments of vulnerability, satisfaction, and connection that invite viewers to see life by means of one other’s eyes. These portraits not solely confront vital social points but additionally have fun the great thing about on a regular basis individuals, reaffirming the facility of portraiture to replicate, problem, and encourage.
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Sequence Winner – 2nd Place: “Healing Wounds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda” by Jan Banning, Netherlands
Sequence Winner – third Place: “Searching for the Same Light” by Barbara Peacock, United States
Single Winner – 1st Place: “67 Mustang” by Emily Neville Fisher, United States
Single Winner – 2nd Place: “Olive, Eleven” by Kat Inexperienced, United Kingdom
Single Winner – third Place: “Daughter of Chinghis Khan” by Slava Pirsky, Israel
“Transformation” by Hannah Mittelstaedt, United Kingdom
“Loi and Alex – Dance Friendship” by Kyle Lui, United States
“It Could Have Been Us” by Magnus Laupa, Sweden
“Jangarak” by Majid Farahani, Iran
“They don’t Look like me” by Niccolò Rastrelli, Italy
“Interpolation” by Sander Vos. United Kingdom
“Miki and Yoko” by Shin Ono, United States
“The Extraordinary Beauty of Ginger Haired Girls” by Stefanie Langenhoven, South Africa
“Behind the Walls: Slovakia’s Roma Communities” by Boris Joseph, France
“Portraits from Acholiland” by Brian Hodges, Australia
“Gravida” by Eliza Bell Schweizbach, United States
“Temple Road” by Josefine Rauch, Germany
“Amagansett” by Janelle Lynch, United States
“Divided Youth of Belfast” by Toby Binder, Germany