Welcome to the winners’ gallery for the 2025 awards
In TPOTY the judging is don’t anonymously. Our judges do not know who entered the images until after the judging is completed. Generative AI is not permitted and entrant must submit RAW files (or adjacent jpegs if not shot in RAW) for final judging. if these are not supplied then the image(s) will not be eligible to win.
We would like thank all our entrants for supporting us, together with our fantastic judging panel, who gave so much of their time to select the winners. The exceptional standard of entries for Travel Photographer of the Year continued in 2025… but judge for yourself.
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Overall Winners – Travel Photographer of the Year 2025
Athanasios Maloukos, Greece
Overall Young winner – Young Travel Photographer of the Year
Jamie Smart, UK (age 10)
Young TPOTY – 14 & under Winner
Naomi Cech, Czech Republic/Czechia (age 11)
Young TPOTY – 14 & under runner up
Zoe Wacker, USA (age 12)
Young TPOTY – 14 & under Highly Commended
Ankur Chatterjee, USA (age 14)
Young TPOTY – 15 to 18 Winner
Matei Maracineanu, Romania (age 15)
Young TPOTY – 15 to 18 Runner Up
Kabiur Rahman Riyad, Bangladesh (age 18)
Young TPOTY – 15 to 18 Highly Commended
Indigo Larmour, Ireland (age 17)
Travel Image of the Year
The Travel Image of the Year is a new award. It is chosen from the four winning images from the One Shot categories plus the four winning images chosen as the Best Single Images in a Portfolio (below)
The winner is Dana Allen’s black & white image of the elephant in the dust.
Portfolio – Adventures & Experiences
Winner, Sara Bardotti, Italy
Portfolio – Adventures & Experiences – Runner Up
Teo Chin Leong, Singapore
Portfolio – Adventures & Experiences – Highly Commended
Alessandra Manzotti, Italy
Portfolio – Adventures & Experiences – Joint Commended
Angiolo Manetti, Italy
Portfolio – Adventures & Experiences – Joint Commended
Katy Gomez Catalina, Spain
Portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs – Winner
Mitchell Kanashkevich, Australia
Portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs – Runner Up
Dashwater Gopalkrishna Bade, India
Portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs – Highly Commended
Teo Chin Leong, Singapore
Portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs -Commended
Thibault Garibaldi, France
Portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Winner
Paul Sansome, UK
Portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Runner Up
Suliman Alatiqi, Kuwait
Portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Highly Commended
Marek Biegalski, Poland
Portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Commended
Ignacio Palacios, Australia/Spain
Portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Winner
Mohammad Murad, Kuwait
Portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Joint Runner Up
Emma Parker, Australia
Portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Joint Runner Up
Panagiotis Dalagiogos, Greece
Portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Highly Commended
Giacomo Marchioness, Italy
Portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Commended
Suliman Alatiqi, Kuwait
Best single images in portfolios – Adventures & Experiences – Winner
Frederico Figueiredo Cerdeira, Brazil
Best single images in portfolios – Adventures & Experiences – Special Mentions
Clockwise from top right – F Dilek Yurdakul, Turkey; Beata Whitehead, USA; Liesel Geertsema, New Zealand; Two Chin Leong, Singapore; Yohan Terrazzo, France
Best single images in portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs – Winner
Dashwater Gopalkrishna Bade, India
Best single images in portfolios – Culture, Heritage & Beliefs – Special Mentions
Clockwise from top right – Tittu Shaji Thomas, India; Dashwater Gopalkrishna Bade, India; Guillaume Petermann, France; Trevor Cole, Ireland; Yousef Naser, Egypt
Best single images in portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Winner
Laetitia Guichard, France
Best single images in portfolios – Landscape, Weather & Climate – Special Mention
Clockwise from top right – Xuejun Long, China; Magdalena Strakova, Czech Republic/Czechia; Suliman Alatiqi, Kuwait; Pawel Zygmunt, Poland; Marel Biegalski, Poland
Best single images in portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Winner
Kevin Yu Shi, USA
Best single images in portfolios – Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife – Special Mention
Clockwise from top right – Javier Herranz Casellas, Spain; Charlie Wemyss-Dunn, UK; Catherine Holmes, UK; Ponlawat Thaipinnarong, Thailand; Yoshiki Nakamura, USA; Emma Parker, Australia; Falko Dusterhoft, Germany; Mohammad Murad, Kuwait
One Shot – Green Planet – Winner
John Edward, USA
One Shot – Green Planet – Runner Up
Yuan Xu, China
One Shot – Green Planet – Highly Commended
Teo Chin Leong, Singapore
One Shot – Green Planet – Commended
Trevor LaClair, USA
One shot – Slow Travel – Winner
Teo Chin Leong, Singapore
One shot – Slow Travel – Runner Up
Yousif Albadi, UAE
One shot – Slow Travel – Highly Commended
Tori Savage, Australia
One shot – Slow Travel – Commended
Thibault Gerbaldi, France
One Shot – Travel in Monochrome – Winner
Dana Allen, USA
One Shot – Travel in Monochrome – Runner Up
Prashant Chacko, India
One Shot – Travel in Monochrome – Highly Commended
Shyjith Onden Cheriyath, India
One Shot – Travel in Monochrome – Commended
Robert Bolton, UK
One Shot – Travel Portraits – Winner
Rahsan Firtina, Turkey
One Shot – Travel Portraits – Runner Up
Teo Chin Leong, Singapore
One Shot – Travel Portraits – Highly Commended
Rahsan Firtina, Turkey
One Shot – Travel Portraits – Joint Commended
Trevor Cole, Ireland
One Shot – Travel Portraits – Joint Commended
Alessandra Manzotti, Italy
Rising Talent – Winner
Marusa Uranjek, Slovenia
Rising Talent – Winner
Silke Hullmann, Germany
Rising Talent – Winner
Christopher Harrison, UK
Rising Talent – Winner
Sue O’Connell, UK
Rising Talent – Winner
Liesel Geertsema, New Zealand
Video Categories
Our World
Over the years we’ve had some great entries in the video category, but the 2025 entries were disappointing, either lacking a clear impactful narrative or a polished or tight ending.
As a result, only two videos in the Our World category were awarded highly commended (videos will appear here shortly).
Christian Weiser (Germany)
Joy Saha (Bangladesh)
However the judges felt no entry merited winning this award.
Shooting Travel
In the Shooting Travel category none of the entries fulfilled the brief of showing how a photographer works, so the judges decided not to award a winner.
People’s Choice Winner
Mark Julian Edwards, UK
Congratulations of all the winners and thank you to everyone who entered the 2025 awards.
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