TOP SELECTIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Here are more than 50 personal recommendations from experts who are passionate, super-knowledgable, and picky about photobooks. We reached out to friends and colleagues from around the globe and asked each to tell us about just one personal favorite photobook that stands out from the crowd for them in 2025.

The list is as diverse and wonderful as you can imagine from a group of luminaries with varied cultural backgrounds who have high standards and great taste and discriminating points of view.

LENSCULTURE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2026

End your year on a high! Get your images together now and submit your best work!

Winners will be exhibited in New York during The Photography Show 2026, the preeminent international art fair dedicated to photography! Other awards include $10,000 in cash grants, solo features in LensCulture, and massive international exposure. Free Entry Option.

Open to all types of Fine Art Photography: conceptual • experimental • cameraless • alternative process • narrative • cinematic • analog • found imagery • abstract • classic • still life • portraiture • environmental • mixed media

"The LensCulture award was an immense boost to my practice. It led to the winning work being exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society and printed in The Guardian.” 

—Liz Hingley, Winner, Art Photography Awards 2021

Deadline: Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Images shown above are Editors’ Picks from recent entries. See them all in the online gallery!

© Aindreas Scholz, Lula Sabrina, Shingo Ohta, Ming He, Miroslav Vrzala, Arunava Dey.

It is considered to be one of the most renowned prizes for contemporary photographic art: The LensCulture Art Photography Award.

— Der Spiegel

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