Danish Sussi Charlotte Alminde Awarded in SWPA 2025

ARCHITECTURE

Xuecheng Liu (China, Mainland) for the photograph “Center of the Cosmos”, showing New York's iconic Times Square from above with a very wide-angle composition to emphasize the city's size.

CREATIVE

Jonell Francisco (Philippines) for “Kem the Unstoppable”, an elegantly photographed collage portrait alluding to Renaissance portrait traditions.

LANDSCAPE

Ng Guang Ze (Singapore) for his captivating black-and-white image of a stream winding through the grassland and flowing into a lake in the distance, taken in Wenhai, Lijiang.

LIFESTYLE

Hajime Hirano (Japan) for his carefully composed image of a street vendor selling electronic parts in Akihabara - a district that was once Japan's largest electronics center after the rapid economic growth in the 1950s.

MOTION

Olivier Unia (France) for “Tbourida La Chute”, where the photographer captures the danger and excitement of the moment when a rider is thrown off his horse during a tbourida, a traditional Moroccan horse show.

NATURAL WORLD & WILDLIFE

Estebane Rezkallah (France) for “The Whale Raft”, showing a group of polar bears feasting on a whale carcass in eastern Greenland.

OBJECT

Sussi Charlotte Alminde (Denmark) for “Octopuses in the Sky”, showing ornate handmade kites at the Fanø International Kite Fliers Meeting, one of the world's largest kite flying events.

PORTRAIT

Yeintze Boutamba (Gabon) for “Encounter”, a tender portrait of two people photographed in an intimate bedroom setting. The photographer wanted to immortalize this moment for the depicted.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Khairizal Maris (Indonesia) for “Celebrating Football Club Victories”, capturing the euphoria of fans celebrating a victory for their local football club by lighting flares in Bandung, West Java.

TRAVEL

Matjaž Šimic (Slovenia) for “Ask a Shaman”, showing a group of shamans in La Paz, Bolivia - where they play a central role in the indigenous Bolivian traditional culture - photographed against the city's colorful architecture.