The 2026 International Photography Competition Results Are In!
Now in its 41st year, The Photo Review International Photography Competition offers photographers worldwide the opportunity to have their work juried by Dr. Sarah Kennel, the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, and published in one of photography’s most respected journals.
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2026 Prize Winners
First Prize – Marcus DeSieno: Unknown Migrant, Female, COD – Exposure, Their Body Was Found One Week After Death, New Mexico
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By photographer Bill Armstrong and with an introduction by the noted critic Lyle Rexer, the book’s transformative, timely portraits and text take a look at artists’ and writers’ views on plague, quarantine, and isolation throughout history. Learn more about this new book and its accompanying prints, available to subscribers and the public alike.
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László Moholy-Nagy
1936