SPStreet Photographers Foundation✓
Black & White Awards 2025
A worldwide black-and-white street-photography open call.
- Entry
- Free entry
- Entrants
- 261
- Licence
- Display only
- Refund
- Non-refundable
- Judging
- No criteria published yet
- Privacy
- Private until results
About this competition
A worldwide black-and-white street-photography open call.
Historical competition archive imported from Street Photographers Foundation. Participant identities are preserved for account claiming; entrant photographs remain in the protected source archive pending a separate rights and media review.
Hosted by Street Photographers Foundation. The organizer sets the rules, judging, winners, and prizes. Lenspost provides the platform.
What work is welcome
This competition accepts single photographs. You may enter up to 23 times.
A single photograph
One frame, judged on its own.
Before you enter
- Up to 23 entries per photographer
- A title is required for every photograph
- Submissions must be original photographs taken by the entrant
- JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIF, TIFF, HEIC, HEIF, up to 10 MB per photograph
- Entered and judged online
- This competition page is public
Previously awarded
What has won here before
Luis Casadevall · Mother
Ludovic Vievard · New Mona and Lisa
Sonia Goydenko · Pizza Ghost
Jason Au · Shadow Play
Amirhossein Yousefi Keysari · Untitled
Ingrid Ponnet · Into the shadow
Andrea Klausner · As the World Spins
Liban Elmi · The Long Ride
“This photograph is my choice for the top award, as it is by far the most complete work in the contest, achieving an exceptional balance between composition, content, and emotion. Its greatest strength lies in its profound humanity—quiet, intimate, and gripping. The composition is both precise and meaningful: the faces of the mother and baby draw the viewer in, while their hands and legs are tenderly entangled with the other sleeping child. This physical closeness becomes a visual language of care, protection, and belonging, transforming a private moment into a lasting image.”
What entrants received
Entrants
261
Photographers entered this competition
This competition does not award cash prizes.
Every entrant
- Work shown in the competition gallery once results were announced
- You keep full copyright
- You are credited whenever your work is used
- Entries stayed private until results were announced
- A permanent Lenspost profile and portfolio
The jury
Jurors from past editions
These photographers judged an earlier edition. They are not on the panel for this one.
Nikos Economopoulos
How your work is judged
Scoring judges use the published criteria, combined scores produce a recommended ranking, and the organizer confirms final placements before publication.
The organizer has not published a scoring rubric.
Judging dates have not been published yet.
Display only
Your rights
You keep full copyright of your work.
- No licence is granted beyond displaying your submission on this competition's pages.
If your work is not selected
Your photograph is shown on this competition's pages and nowhere else. No promotional licence is granted.
If your work wins or is shortlisted
Your photograph is shown on this competition's pages and nowhere else. No promotional licence is granted.
Entry fees are not refunded.
These are the exact terms recorded with your entry.
Entry options
Free entry. No payment required.
Entry fees are not refunded.
Card payment closes Dec 12, 2025, 10:59 PM UTC. The deadline for photographs you have already paid for is Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC.
Entries close Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC. Read the rules
Key dates
Complete
Entries open
Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
Complete
Entries close
Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
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Judging begins
Dates not published
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Judging ends
Dates not published
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Winners announced
Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
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Entries open
Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
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Entries close
Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
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Judging begins
Dates not published
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Judging ends
Dates not published
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Winners announced
Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
The organizer
Street Photographers Foundation
Our goal is to offer a publication that talks about and focuses on street photography in terms of language and as an art form.
Verified organizer
Street Photographers is a foundation that is entirely dedicated to street photography. It is a place where you will find stories about people from the street and get some tip from them. The intent is to provide a platform for emerging photographers, artists and designers to showcase their works to create opportunities and open new doors. The subjects explored are broad, in terms of concepts, styles, and techniques. We want to explore the limits and possibilities.
- Competitions run
- 12
- Results published
- 12 of 12
Completed competitions with published winners.
The rules
The full entry terms, rights and refund policy, plus the questions photographers ask before entering.
Read the rules →
Entries closed. Winners are announced Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC.
261 photographers have entered
Ludovic Vievard