🎞 Celebrating Monochrome: Black and White Photo Awards 2025

Each year, the Black and White Photo Awards celebrate the very best in global monochrome photography—and the 2025 results have just been announced. This year’s winning images demonstrate extraordinary technical skill and emotional depth, reminding us of the timeless power of black and white photography.

🖤 The most prestigious title, Absolute Winner, was awarded to João Coelho for his devastatingly powerful image “The Kingdom of Flies.” This harrowing yet beautifully composed photograph draws attention to the harsh realities faced by children living in a rubbish dump in Mozambique. It’s a haunting reminder of photography’s ability to document, provoke, and move.

Please visit the official site to explore in full resolution.

📷 The rest of the awards showcase an impressive breadth of style and genre—from intimate portraits and documentary realism to abstract studies of texture, form, and shadow. These aren’t just photographs rendered in black and white; in most cases, monochrome was the only language possible for what the image had to say.

Why this matters for us as a club

Exploring the 2025 Black and White Photo Awards gives us:

• A chance to see how monochrome works across different subjects,

• Inspiration for more intentional black-and-white shooting,

• Ideas for how photography can tell meaningful, sometimes difficult, stories.

Consider how Coelho’s “Kingdom of Flies” uses every aspect of the frame—light, texture, expression—to leave a lasting impression. What could you say in monochrome that colour might dilute?

➡️ Explore Further

👉 Visit the full gallery of winners:

Black and White Photo Awards 2025

👉 Try converting one of your colour shots to monochrome—does it gain emotional or structural strength?

👉 Share your own black and white images in the club upload folder

We’ll look at a few together at our next round-table session.