1st Place Winner: “That Place He Goes” by Carole Mills Noronha (Australia)
The 2025 AAP Journal Awards highlight stirring portraits that delve into the emotional complexity and visible richness of the human expertise.
Marking the publication’s forty eighth subject devoted solely to portraiture, this version celebrates pictures’s potential to seize deep connections in a single body. Chosen from a world pool of expertise, the profitable photos vary from spontaneous avenue moments to fastidiously crafted studio scenes, every revealing uncooked emotion and storytelling finesse. Excess of visible illustration, these portraits categorical shared humanity and problem standard concepts of what portraiture can obtain at this time.
2nd Place Winner: “Retaguardia” by Jesús Umbría Brito (Spain)
third Place Winner: “Wet Plate Collodion Portraits” by Paul Adams (United States)
“Frank at Grandmother’s Home” by Bob Stevens (United States)
“Olivia with Leaf” by Les Schmidt (United States)
“In Between Worlds” by Han Yang (China)
“All that Remains” by Nico Froehlich (United Kingdom)
“Koda” by Patrick Enssle (Germany)
“Collar City, a Portrait of Troy, New York” by Susan Anthony (United States)
“Abandoned elderly” by Michele Zousmer (United States)
“Echoes of Guerewol” by Raul Cacho Oses (Spain)
“The Unforgotten” by Michael Knapstein (United States)
“Echoes” by Lukasz Spychala (Poland)
“The Children of Mozambique Island” by Jelisa Peterson (United States)
“Salon Studie’s” by Pamela Connolly (United States)
“100 Years & 3 Weeks” by Brian Cassey (United Kingdom)
“Love Your Neighbor” by Randy Bacon (United States)
“Couple. BanHo, Vietnam” by Ron Cooper (United States)
“Lois & Carey” by Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom (Israel)
“La Danse des Lumières” by Olivia Mazzola (Italy)
“Love’s Language” by Yixu Wang (China)
“A Portrait Series” by Migle Golubickaite (Lithuania)
