LensCulture is calling for entries to its 2025 Street Photography Awards — international photography competition open to street photographers worldwide.
From fleeting gestures to monumental scenes, your images can echo far beyond the instant they were captured. LensCulture invites you to enter and share how you see the world.
A total of $10,000 will be awarded in cash prizes. Winning photographers will be exhibited at a gallery in New York during The Photography Show (Spring 2026), the eminent photo fair that brings together hundreds of galleries, publishers and collectors, as well as an ambitious program of exhibitions, conversations, artist book signings and curated fair events.
Street photography today can vary greatly in how it looks and how it was made, but there are common elements that thread the work of all the greats: a love for the unexpected and candid moments of life, an ability to find visual order within the chaos of the world, and an unparalleled creative vision.
The competition is open to everyone that is 18 years and older, professional and amateur photographers alike.
LensCulture is on a mission to discover the most imaginative, talented, creative photographers, regardless of location, age, background or experience level.
LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025 – Entry Fees
Your first single-image entry is free!
5 single-image entries, judged individually, can be submitted for $35. Each additional photo costs $10.
Each photo series of 10 photographs costs $45.
