Announcing the 2025 APA Award Winners

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 APA Awards.
With just three photographers per category, here are the photographs for this year’s competition;
 

Best of Show, Mahayla Rheanna

Architecture / Interiors

1.    Greg St.Johns
2.    Yasser Alaa Mobarak 
3.    Brad Feinknopf

Beauty/Fashion

1.    Jingyi Yu
2.    Feiyu Feng
3.    Jess Lynn Goss

Celebrity/Musicians

1.    Jeff Harris
2.    Art Streiber
3.    Elisabeth Caren

Conceptual/Altered

1.    Jingyi Yu
2.    Heidi Margocsy
3.    Yana Mostitsky

Corporate/Industrial

1.    David Westphal
2.    Dan Poyourow
3.    Terry Vine

Documentary/Street Photography

1.    John Blais
2.    Brendan North
3.    Tal Shpantzer

Food/Still Life

1.    Scott Senner
2.    Travis Fitzgerald
3.    Kate Cauffiel

Fresh (new work created 2025)

1.    Steven Cheadle
2.    Brendan Byrne
3.    Jordan Tiberio

Lifestyle

1.    Aaron Packard
2.    Moritz Leisen
3.    George Craig

Nature/Animals

1.    Tadd Myers
2.    Xiaoping Lin
3.    Miranda Penn Turin

Personal Project

1.    Moritz Leisen
2.    Sami Drasin
3.    Annet Katan

Portrait

1.    Miranda Penn Turin
2.    Maya Guice
3.    Christopher Dowell

Sports/Adventure

1.    Liam Man
2.    Anthony Nex
3.    Kaddy Tsang

Travel/Landscape

1.    Noah Willman
2.    David Fouts
3.    Rob Bovarnick/Rob-Harris

Thank you, the jurors, for your careful consideration in selecting the winners  - the jurors go through multiple rounds -they do not see the names of the photographers or even the titles of the photos (except for the Series in which they see the full description). The jurors see all photos submitted, and there is no pre-edit. 

Matt Denten, Executive Vice President, Creative Director at Arc Worldwide
Karly DeWees, Senior Producer at Apple (Contract)
Marjorie Fajardo, Content Producer at The Martin Agency
Nikita S. Freyermuth, Art Director at Annex88 + Freelance
Scott Hohman, Associate Creative Director at FCB Health NY
Juliana Hong, Senior Producer at Amp Agency
Paul Keskeys, Publisher & Editor in Chief, Architizer
Lisa Lee, Executive Producer (Freelance)
Lizzy Lehn, Producer at GALE
Odalis Lopez, Senior Producer/EP at Accenture Song
Sharon Mendelow, Executive Producer (Freelance)
Nicole Oliha, SVP Creative and Brand Strategy at City National Bank
Sharon Romang, VP, Creative at Front Row
Brandon Ruffin, Multi-Disciplinary Artist at Ruff Draft
Craig Shipman, Global Head of Photography at LGA Management
Diego Valdez, Global Content Studio Manager at ASICS Corporation

Thank you, APA partners, who provided valuable prizes 

• Sony
• Adobe
• Agency Access
• Blazing Editions
• Blink Bid
• Capture One
• Cradoc fotoSoftware
• Found
• ImageRights
• Nanuk
• Photocloser
• Photoshelter
• Tether Tools
• Think Tank

More about prizes can be found here:

Please be sure to view the Awards gallery to view full images full-framed

SERIES and AI winners will be posted soon. 

Additionally, the jurors found many of the other submissions equally compelling.
We will highlight additional images in another post or on social so follow APA on IG. 

Let's celebrate photography!