THE 2025 PHOTO REVIEW 40TH ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Thank you for your entries to the 2025 competition…
the prizewinners have been announced.
This year’s Photo Review International Photography Competition will be juried by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman.
The Photo Review Competition enables thousands of people across the country and the world to see the accepted work in our 2025 competition issue and on our website.
Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the prestigious Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
maryeileensphotography.com
At Ease, 2022
Archival pigment print, 18″ x 12″
First Prize 2024
Awards
- Prizewinners exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
- Accepted entries reproduced in The Photo Review journal and on our website
- Editor’s Selections exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries
Prizes include:
- A $1,000 purchase prize from Haverford College
- A $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio
- A Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Tablet
- A $250 gift certificate from Digital Silver Imaging
- A $250 gift certificate from Red River Paper
- A $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper
- Two $100 gift certificates from PhotoLounge
- $100, $75, and $50 gift certificates for Think Tank photo bags
- Two $50 gift certificates for PhotoFlashDsrive
- Numerous valuable items from Photogenic Supply
- A feature on the Laurence Miller Gallery’s Picture of the Week email blast
- A feature on Peter Fetterman’s The Power of Photography email blast
Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country.
An entry fee of $40 for up to three images, and $8 for each additional image, entitles all entrants to a copy of the full-color catalogue. In addition, all entrants may subscribe to The Photo Review for $40, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)
All entries will be registered through Smarter Entry. Digital images can be uploaded using Smarter Entry here.
All entries must be received by May 15, 2025.
View the 2025 Contest Rules here.
Meet the Juror: Peter Fetterman
Born in London, Peter Fetterman has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 40 years. Initially a filmmaker and collector, he set up his first gallery over 30 years ago in 1988. The Peter Fetterman Gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th-century photography in the country, particularly in humanist photography. Diverse holdings include work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Willy Ronis, André Kertész, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lillian Bassman, Pentti Sammallahti, Sarah Moon, and Jeffrey Conley.
Peter has also written multiple books on photography including The Power of Photography, Women: A Celebration, and Cornell Capa.
His daily blog, The Power of Photography, has promoted the work of scores of photographers and is seen by many thousands of people around the world, including leading museum curators and serious photo collectors.
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