A PRESTIGIOUS
JUDGING PANEL
Our jury is comprised of world-class photographers, curators, agency directors and editors. They select a shortlist and winning photographers, as well as providing feedback.


Steve McCurry is celebrated as creator of several of the most iconic images of our time. Across countless countries he has captured ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike, always with a rich humanity. Read more

Phaedra Brown is Photo Editor at New York Times, where she focuses on the Travel and Real Estate sections as well as the annual 52 Places To Go list and The World Through a Lens photo series. Read more


Richard Sandler is an acclaimed street photographer and documentary filmmaker, best known for three decades worth of hard-won, iconic images of New York, capturing a bustling metropolis in a constant state of flux. Read more


Andres
Holly Andres is a fine art photographer who creates highly evocative narrative photography drawing on themes of adolescence, womanhood and domesticity. Informed by both her own memories and fiction, she combines period costumes, props and sets with meticulous lighting and a compositional gift to create stylized imagery. Read more

Amao
Damarice Amao is photography historian with a PhD in art history, working as associate curator at the photography department of the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou. Read more


Johan
Simen Johan is a fine art photographer who merges photography and digital manipulation to create stunning, hyperreal imagery that confuses the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the beautiful and the brutal, the familiar and the otherworldly. Read more


Ryczek
Marcin Ryczek is a fine art photographer whose meditative work draws on minimalist and symbolic themes, under a self-proclaimed philosophy of “minimum form, maximum content”. Across an eclectic range of genres – architecture, travel, sport, wildlife – he uses his unique visual language to create poetic work that is both idiosyncratic and universally accessible. Read more

Ng
Dilys Ng is Senior Photo Editor at TIME where she commissions, produces and edits photography across platforms for high impact features and projects like TIME100, Person of the Year, Guns in America and Next Generation Leaders, and has worked with cover stars such as Aretha Franklin, Kate Winslet, Naomi Osaka and Elliot Page. Read more