Royal Photographic Society
Documentary Photography Awards 2025
Touring Exhibition
The RPS Documentary Photography Award is an international event attracting exceptional documentary photographers and visual storytellers from across the world.
In total, 9 projects are exhibited, with 3 projects from each of the Members, Students and Open categories. This format enables the exhibition to show long-form documentary work from RPS members, student photographers, and more seasoned photographers in the Open category.
(c) Amin Nazari
The selected projects are diverse, ranging from social documentary, the impact of conflict and war, environmental change, masculinity, austerity, traditional livelihoods, housing, childhood, urbanisation, memory, community life and personal crisis. Together, they provide an insight into the range of what documentary photography can be and how it can be used to tell urgent, personal and socially engaged stories.
(c) Abdelr Hman Alkahlout
The Awards and exhibiting photographers are:
Members Category:
John Harrison, Bellwether
Amin Nazari, Anxious Frames
Jacopo Lacamo, Ov’era
Open Category:
Abdelr Hman Alkahlout, Faces of Gaza’s Silent Testimony
Alex Bex, Memories of Dust
Jim Mortram, Small Town Inertia
Student Category:
Tianxiao Wang, The Sea Sustains Us
Richie Elder, Dumbiedykes
Jubair Ahmed Armob, The Place Where I Used To Play...
The touring exhibition, showing a selection of work from the award-winning entrants, will be shown at Oriel Colwyn, Theatr Colwyn, Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7RU, from 6th October to 31st October 2026, with a planned opening event on Saturday 10th October.
*Cover Image (c) Jubair Ahmed Arnob
