Winners
Street Photographers Foundation Awards 2026
Single photographs
Ranked as individual photographs, separately from series.
Summer in the City
In the 1960s, the FDNY began issuing spray caps to control water flow, and community programs formalized hydrant use for summer recreation.
Series
Ranked as bodies of work, separately from single photographs.
The Great Escape
My personal handbook to escaping reality. - - The great escape (by Charles Bukowski) listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then one crab will climb up on top of the others and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket, then, just as he’s about to escape another crab grabs him and pulls him back down. really? I asked. really, he said, and this job is just like that, none of the others want anybody to get out of here. that’s just the way it is in the postal service! I believe you, I said. just then the supervisor walked up and said, you fellows were talking. there is no talking allowed on this job. I had been there for eleven and one-half years. I got up off my stool and climbed right up the supervisor and then I reached up and pulled myself right out of there. it was so easy it was unbelievable. but none of the others followed me. and after that, whenever I had crab legs I thought about that place. I must have thought about that place maybe 5 or 6 times before I switched to lobster.
Official selections
Jurors' Picks
Photographs selected individually by the competition jury.
Damian Chrobak · Sleeping Man
Gavin Libotte · Stairway To Heaven
Jozef Macak · Crossroads
Julachart Pleansanit · Friendly
Maude Bardet · Fish Market-Blauvac
Michele Cimini · Relax
Victor Shohet · Body Parts
Jean-Marie Detcher · The City Exhales
William Desse · Solar Eclipse
Jason Au · Shadow Play
Cesare Simioni · Soul Beneath the Paint