Inspiring Minimalist Award-Winning Photos from the Artist Gallery Awards 2025
1st Place Winner: “Feet” by Luca Menotti, Italy
The Artist Gallery Awards 2025 showcased the power of simplicity with their stunning minimalist photography category.
Twenty-five standout images transformed quiet scenes into visual poetry, proving that less can truly be more. From fog-shrouded landscapes to solitary figures in motion, each photo conveyed deep emotion through clean composition and intentional space. Lina Kostas’s winning shot—a lone red balloon adrift in a white expanse—captured hearts with its haunting elegance and symbolic depth. This collection reminds us that minimalism isn’t about absence, but presence—where every detail matters and silence speaks volumes.
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2nd Place Winner: “Infinity Steps” by Rick Bogacz, Canada
3rd Place Winner: “In the Library” by Alireza Pourkhan, United Arab Emirates
“Echancrure” by Alain Boccard, France
“Reeling It In” by Anuj Rawla, India
“Reflections” by Stefano Pediconi, Italy
“Assemblage” by Alain Boccard, France
“Woman on the Beach” by Juan Carlos Hervas, Spain
“Minimalist” by Thierry Camus, France
“Impressions Paprocany” by Artur Jastrzębski, Poland
“Lifeboats, The Beaches, Toronto” by Rick Bogacz, Canada
“New Yor Blues” by Lorenzo Vitali, Italy
“Main St. Apartments” by Tracy Osborne, USA
“Lochness Playground” by Sara Larca, USA
“Girandella” by Rajan Milošević, Croatia
“Boce” by Rajan Milošević, Croatia
“The Sign” by Andreas Hummel, Germany
“What the Fog” by Andreas Hummel, Germany
“The Wall” by Dorota Qaid, Canada
“Green Chairs” by Andreas Hummel, Germany
“Reponse” by Alain Boccard, France
“Looking Out” by Axel Görlach, Germany
“Pas De Huit” by Melinda Goodall, USA
“Daw Lion” by Charles Janson, USA
“Summer Sunset on Lake Erir” by Deborah Campana, USA
