{"id":119301,"date":"2025-08-29T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:15:12","slug":"the-finalists-of-the-aop-photography-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119301\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finalists of the AOP Photography Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Simon Hill, Blackpool, Central Pier, Balloon Seller \u00a9 Simon Hill. Courtesy AOP <\/p>\n

The UK-based Association of Photographers (AOP) has announced the finalists for its 40th Photography Awards. <\/p>\n

The AOP is a professional trade association based in London that advocates and acts as a directory for photographers. <\/p>\n

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the AOP Photography Awards, celebrating excellence in the creative photography and image-making industry. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Greg Funnell, Ratcliffe on Soar \u00a9 Greg Funnell. Courtesy AOP \"Shadow<\/a>Dan Burn-Forti, A Western Wonder 2. \u00a9 Dan Burn-Forti. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Nick David, El Jadida \u2013 City of the Horse. \u00a9 Nick David. Courtesy AOP
\n \"A<\/a>Richard Pullar, Fish fingers, crinkle chips and beans on a broken plate \u00a9 Richard Pullar. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Simon Winnall, Six Senses \u00a9 Simon Winnall. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Tom Parker, Shape Shifting the Steppes \u00a9 Tom Parker. Courtesy AOP <\/p>\n

Sponsored by MPB, this year\u2019s headline sponsor, the awards focus on human creativity and professional practice. The Gold and Silver winners will be announced live at the AOP Annual Showcase event in London on October 9, 2025, where, alongside selected finalists, the winning entries will also be exhibited. <\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the plethora of photography awards across our industry today, it\u2019s even more special that the AOP Photography Awards has stood the test of time, celebrating 40 years of professional practice, in which we have seen many photographic styles and trends come and go over four decades,\u201d says Isabelle Doran, CEO of the Association of Photographers. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s both positive and rewarding to see the continuation of visual rigour from this year\u2019s finalists\u2019 entries, from profound realism to highly conceptual imagery, each sharing a multitude of facets spanning the lives humans lead, whether captured in the format of stills or moving images.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Simon Hill, Horden, Co Durham, Giving the Side Eye \u00a9 Simon Hill. Courtesy AOP
\n \"Black<\/a>Wendy Carrig, Ghost Gear \u00a9 Wendy Carrig. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Henrik Knudsen, Surfer, Venice Beach \u00a9 Henrik Knudsen. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Alun Callender, Margo McDaid \u2013 Margo In Margate \u2013 Photographed by Alun Callender at her Margate Gallery and Ramsgate Studio. \u00a9 Alun Callender. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>Hugh Fox, In Her Own Time \u00a9 Hugh Fox. Courtesy AOP \"A<\/a>James Day, Au (Z79) \u00a9 James Day. Courtesy AOP <\/p>\n

The 40th AOP Photography Awards comprises ten individual subject categories, plus additional awards for Best Commissioned, Best Personal, and Best Moving work which are considered by key industry figures from all the selected finalists. <\/p>\n

These professional Awards are open to all AOP accredited photographer and assisting photographer members. As in previous years, stills, moving image, and innovation can be entered into each category. All still and moving images have been created by a human creative or published as new from January 2024, with the exception of the Project category, which has no date limitation but must be a proven ongoing project. <\/p>\n

The award categories are: Documentary, Environment, Fashion and Beauty, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Portrait, Spaces, Still Life and Object, and Project. <\/p>\n

The full gallery is on the AOP website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Hill, Blackpool, Central Pier, Balloon Seller \u00a9 Simon Hill. Courtesy AOP The UK-based Association of Photographers (AOP)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[76882,228,226,227,229,88,14366,76883],"class_list":{"0":"post-119301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-aopawards","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-photocompetition","15":"tag-photographyawards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}