We’re excited to announce the winners of the YEARBOOK Awards 2025!
Alamy YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by James Allsworth, Head of Content at Alamy.
Winner: Dominik Scharf
“When I find a photo that connects with me, it’s often very difficult to put my finger on exactly why, and this photo is no exception. I am drawn to simplicity, but also the unique. What makes something interesting to look at? For this one, I think I was initially drawn to the striking colour but also the intrigue – what exactly am I looking at? Is it water droplets? Sand? Fire? Does it matter? For me this image does a very cool thing; it makes you question what you are looking at, and like a lot of art, it can represent whatever you want it to. Do we enjoy this image because it makes a statement about nature vs man, or real vs synthetic? Or, maybe we just like it because it looks cool. Either way I’m happy and I think it would look great hanging up in a room – whether that be in a minimalist urban office, a fine art exhibition or inside the latest hot spot restaurant somewhere.” – James Allsworth
Alamy is the world’s most diverse stock photography collection, they add around 150,000 images to their collection every day from thousands of photographers from across the world. Alamy supply images to customers globally, from magazine and book publishers to design agencies and marketers, they’re always looking for great imagery to enhance their projects.
Alamy work with over 100,000 photographers and aim to make it easy for you to work with them – it’s free to sign up, they don’t edit pictures on content and you retain full ownership of your photos. Since Alamy began, they’ve paid out over $200 million in royalties to photographers and the need for photography in our daily lives shows no signs of slowing.
Der Greif YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by Francesca Hummler, Community Manager and Curator at Der Greif.
Winner: Joanna Johnston
“I was drawn to Joanna Johnston’s work for the way she uses photography as a personal act of reflection, and for the poetic, beautifully written way she speaks about her practice. There is a rare depth of feeling in her images, a connection between the natural world, body, past, and memory, expressed without reliance on heavy post-production, allowing the work’s honesty and quiet intensity to shine through.” – Francesca Hummler
Der Greif is an award-winning platform for contemporary photography, uniting diverse voices and providing emerging artists with visibility, support, and community. They create opportunities for artists to navigate the art world through monthly grants, guest-curated projects, and collaborations with leading cultural institutions.
Rooted in crowdsourcing, their initiatives break down barriers to participation, democratizing access to competitions, exhibitions, and networking. Their “Guest Room” series connects artists with top curators, reducing gatekeeping and fostering global connections.
Since 2008, Der Greif has published works by 4,000+ photographers and explored authorship, image remix culture, and photographic archives. Through print, digital, and exhibitions, they examine how images shape our world—and our role within it.
FORMAT YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by Jodi Kwok, QUAD/FORMAT Curator.
Winner: Eric Fong
“Eric Fong’s Asylum Needlework transforms delicate Victorian needlework and recreated dresses into haunting cyanotype images that are visually striking and emotionally resonant. Through his sensitive treatment of material, texture, and scale, he evokes the personal histories, vulnerability, and quiet resilience of the women who made and wore these objects. I selected this work for its meticulous cyanotype process and the way it thoughtfully brings these histories to life.” – Jodi Kwok
FORMAT International Photography Festival was established in 2004 at QUAD and is the UK’s leading international contemporary festival of photography and related media. It organises a year-round programme of international commissions, open calls, residencies, conferences and collaborations in the UK and internationally and welcomes over 100,000 visitors from all over the world to its biennale.
QUAD is Derby’s Cultural Hub, providing contemporary art exhibitions, film, cinema, integrated digital media work and a range of educational and creative activities that is inspirational, innovative and inclusive.
Magnum Photos YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by Irene Lombardo, Cultural Manager (UK, Ireland, APAC, Africa & Middle East) at Magnum Photos.
“My selection is The 544, an ongoing project by Sarah Ketelaars that takes its name from the 544 psychiatric patients murdered by the Nazis in Latvia in 1941. It is a deeply moving and visually powerful tribute. Rooted in personal history — Ketelaars’ grandmother worked at the hospital from which the patients were taken — the project also responds to a troubling gap in the historical record, with only a brief mention in the Nuremberg report and no known list of names. Through the poetic use of cyanotype and hand-drawn symbols, Ketelaars restores presence, dignity, and humanity to lives silenced by a devastating chapter of history, transforming personal memory into a universal act of remembrance that gives voice to the forgotten.” – Irene Lombardo
Magnum Photos is a cooperative of acclaimed, independent photographers who share an ongoing commitment to documenting world events, people, places, daily life and culture. Founded in 1947, Magnum Photos has been telling stories of the past, defining the present, and shaping the future through photography for over 77 years, united by its values of uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence. With more than 6.6 million followers across the internet, and a rolling program of museum shows, exhibitions, and events across the globe, Magnum photographers continue to inspire a growing worldwide audience.
Newspaper Club YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by Sarah Belfort from Newspaper Club.
Winner: Ana Blumenkron
“I was first drawn to the shiny, theatrical clothes in this image, but it’s the model’s steady expression that holds you there. A magnetic portrait by Ana Blumenkron, and I loved learning it shows designer Sofia Castellon’s 2023 Central Saint Martins graduate collection!” – Sarah Belfort
Newspaper Club helps everyone print their own newspapers. There’s no minimum order, 24/7 online ordering and fast worldwide delivery.
Since 2010, Newspaper Club has worked with some of the world’s most creative photographers and organisations, including Magnum Photos and the British Journal of Photography. They offer a range of FSC-certified and recycled paper stocks and their printing press is powered by solar energy.
Shutter Hub Editions YEARBOOK Award 2025
One photographer will be selected by Karen Harvey, Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub.
Winner: Rosita McKenzie
“Rosita’s work challenges our understanding of what photography can be. Taken literally as ‘drawing with light’, as a blind photographer, with a memory of being fully sighted, Rosita shares a deep and unreplicable personal perspective that would otherwise go unseen.” – Karen Harvey MBE
Founded in 2021, Shutter Hub Editions is the publishing house from Shutter Hub, creating a collection of themed printed publications for people who love photography. Their books are stocked in bookshops around the UK, and held in collections at the British Library, Cambridge University Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland, and more.
YEARBOOK is Shutter Hub’s annual directory of photographers, open to all photographers, whatever stage they are at in their career. Now in its fourth year, we received nearly 1000 images and we are showing at least one image from everyone who entered in this exhibition.
YEARBOOK is a group show, promoting the skill and talent of photographers working now. If you are an editor, director, curator or someone who commissions, promotes or supports photographers we invite you to explore the gallery and the huge range of styles and subjects from photographers across the world.
YEARBOOK 2025
21 August – 21 November 2025
The YEARBOOK exhibition will run for the above dates, but the directory will be accessible online permanently.
VIEW THE FULL EXHIBITION: YEARBOOK 2025
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