Istanbul Photo Awards winners
The Istanbul Photo Awards 2026 winners were just announced, celebrating major photojournalism work from around the globe. (dailysabah.com) Also, the Sony World Photography Awards handed its inaugural European Student Award to a German photographer for a series on femininity in the military. (digitalcameraworld.com)
Palestinian EPA photographer Haitham Imad won Photo of the Year with "Gaza, No Hope," a frame showing 2‑year‑old Sham lying exhausted in her mother's arms at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. (aa.com.tr)) Organizers say nearly 19,000 photographs were submitted and 26 photographers received awards across 10 categories in the 2026 contest. (aa.com.tr)) The İstanbul Photo Awards carries a total prize pool of $58,000, with the Photo of the Year receiving $6,000 and first‑place winners in each category awarded $3,000. (phmuseum.com)) An international jury that included National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale, four‑time Pulitzer winner Carol Guzy, Yuri Kozyrev and Getty Images’ Cameron Spencer selected the winners during an online session. (aa.com.tr)) Other top prizes went to AP’s Jehad Alsharfi for a Story News series on hunger in Gaza, Arez Ghaderi for the portrait series "Lost Childhood" about children working in Afghan brick kilns, and AFP’s Olesya Kurpyayeva for a Single Nature image titled "Baby Mammoth Yana." (aa.com.tr)) Teresa Halbreiter of the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg won the inaugural Sony World Photography Awards European Student Award for "Stillgestanden (‘Attention!’)," a series examining femininity and individuality in the German Armed Forces. (sony.co.uk)) The Sony prize announcement lists the European Student Award exhibition at Somerset House in London from April 17 to May 4, 2026, and names shortlisted student projects including Albert Słowiński, Bennet Böckstiegel and Laura Anna Rossa. (sony.co.uk))
