Remarkable Winning Portraits from the LensCulture Awards 2025

Series Winner – 1st Place: “Nirvana” by Daesung Lee, France

The 2025 LensCulture Portrait Awards have revealed a remarkable collection of portraits from around the world, each telling compelling stories of identity, resilience, and emotion.

The winning images span cultures and environments, capturing moments of vulnerability, pride, and connection that invite viewers to see life through another’s eyes. These portraits not only confront important social issues but also celebrate the beauty of everyday people, reaffirming the power of portraiture to reflect, challenge, and inspire.

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Series Winner – 2nd Place: “Healing Wounds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda” by Jan Banning, Netherlands

Series Winner – 3rd 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 Green, United Kingdom

Single Winner – 3rd 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