Black and White Photo Awards 2026 winning photographs
Discover the winning photographs of the Black and White Photo Awards 2026. In this fifth edition, explore the awarded works across all six categories, along with the Gold, Silver and Bronze Mentions and finalist photographs. A selection of images that showcases the talent and creativity of photographers from around the world and will become part of the history of this black and white photography competition.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Absolute Winner
Bishwa Ijtema 2
Shengwei Dai
The Overall Winner of the Black and White Photo Awards 2026 is Shengwei Dai, with his photograph Bishwa Ijtema2. The image, which captures the spectacular moment of a man leaping between two trains as dozens of people look on, has earned him the title of Black and White Photographer of the Year 2026 and a €1,500 cash prize, the largest in the competition’s history.
Category Winner Architecture
Urban landscape 7
Qian Shen
Category Winner Street
Cow Watching
Chongfeng Wu
Category Winner Portrait
Behind the Silence
Happy Mukherjee
Category Winner Fauna and Flora
Silent Majesty
Mohammad Mirza
Category Winner Landscape
Flamingo in Flight 2
Jie Fischer
Category Winner Open Theme
Convergence
Lloyd Lane
Other Award Winners in Architecture
Golden Mention
Inspiration
Calvin Binnema
Silver Mention
Silver Waves
Stefan Lenz
Bronze Mention
Spiral of Light
John Twiname
Other Award Winners in Street
Golden Mention
Train Festival 7
Xiaoyue Yan
Silver Mention
Wheel Rolling
Xu Liu
Bronze Mention
Walk on stilts
Aimin Chen
Other Award Winners in Portrait
Golden Mention
Old Teahouse 2
Qin Tang
Silver Mention
Donna Samburu
Caterina Romeo
Bronze Mention
An innocent view
Mohammed Muhtasib
Other Award Winners in Flora and Fauna
Golden Mention
The Last Titans
Srikanth Santhinathan
Silver Mention
Elder
Cliff Spooner
Bronze Mention
Fitness
Vittorio Ricci
Other Award Winners in Landscape
Golden Mention
Under the sun
Mats Carduner
Silver Mention
Silence in Monochrome
Antonello Proietti
Bronze Mention
CHI´GAG : El volcán de fuego
Francisco Cortes Arias
Other Award Winners in Open Theme
Golden Mention
Uyghur 2
Lung-Tsai Wang
Silver Mention
Back to the Past
Jurica Galic
Bronze Mention
On her way
Jana Kreuz
Finalists
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Look who is in transit ! , by Marco Signoretto
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Dancing trees 3 , by Mohammed Muhtasib
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Ship Breaking Yard , by Mohammed Muhtasib
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Within the Folds of a Building , by Haibin Tang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Encauzado , by Joaquín Pastor Genzor
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Spirit of Pottery , by Nguyễn Ngọc Thạch Thạch
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Banished , by Bakang Baloi
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Celebration , by Shengwei Dai
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – The Living Chain , by Divyanshu Verma
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Holy Journey , by Jason Hioe
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Flowing Shapes , by Florian Kriechbaumer
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Arquitectura de luz y fe , by Ximeana Garrigues
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Curves , by Anna Wacker
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Mirror of Silence , by Saleh Alshamali
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Eyes Carrying Untold Worlds , by Happy Mukherjee
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Vertical City, Silent Peak , by Shuchuan Liu
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Bridge Stories of Berlin , by Jana Kreuz
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Exposure Line , by Robert Sic
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Paths of everyday life , by Divyanshu Verma
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Market in Daliang Mountain , by Shengwei Dai
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Water forest4 , by Fengying Long
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Untitled , by stephen pierce
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Trophy hunter , by Jonathan Wosinski
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Mongolian Herder , by Bing Zhu
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – From the bottom of the ocean , by João Coelho
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Above the Burning World , by Srikanth Santhinathan
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Xueli , by Jonathan Knowles
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Bright silence , by Michael Wiese
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – The strange embarkment on the train , by Md. Arifuzzaman
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Lone survivor , by Vittorio Ricci
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Point of Pause , by Huo-Lun Hsu
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – The cyclist , by Rini Braber
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Above the Clouds , by Saleh Alshamali
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Turiya , by Anant Raje
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Lake Bled Sunrise , by Nina Lozej
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Curve , by Sihang Chen
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Eclipse , by Remuna Beca
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Lost In Thought , by Adam Neuba
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Crown of Darkness , by Antonello Proietti
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Crossing , by Uku Sööt
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Own shadow , by Julian Łoziński
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Baitul Mukarram National Mosque , by Jose Manuel Almodovar Muñoz
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Nilgiri at Dusk , by Florian Weiß
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – The Elegance of Attitude , by Dayle Ann Clavin
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – A sense of Control , by Craig Williams
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Magnetosphere V , by João Pompeu
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Sri Lanka15 , by Xiaoyue Yan
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Life beside the rails4 , by Yichao Chen
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – The Weight of Ritual , by Connal McClure
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Lady Goubert , by Mats Carduner
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Where Light Sleeps , by Thomas de Franzoni
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Walking at Night , by Jie Fischer
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Untitled (Vivian on Hawaii) , by Michael Potts
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Bangladesh Impression , by Yongchao Guo
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Train Through Stone Forest2 , by Haibin Tang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – yearning , by 大樹 青木
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Tua Pek Gong , by Ailing Zhang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Postcard , by Florian Kriechbaumer
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – La bruixa i les estreles , by Fernando Gómez Gonzalvo
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Devotees of Wari Yatra , by Abhishek Basak
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Short-eared Owl2 , by Fengying Long
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – The Beauty of Endless Winding , by Xiaoping Chen
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Umbrella Workshop , by Youzhen Wu
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – I don’t aspire….I savor , by Michele Chichierchia
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Microspur1 , by Lung-Tsai Wang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Rest , by Jurica Galic
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Mosque , by Dorota Yamadag
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Celler Ysios. , by Jordi Egea Torrent
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Scenery4 , by Yun Lin
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Silence , by Jun Ding
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – A light will come , by Stefano Caccia
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Keeper of the Sky , by Saleh Alshamali
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Into the Storm , by Venkat Iyer
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – White Tidal Trees , by Ruijuan Huang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Perfect portrait , by Marcello Galleano
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Leopard cub under , by Willem Kruger
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Fauna and Flora Finalist – Pensive in the Canopy , by Christine Dorrestein
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Connected , by António Manuel Correia Luís
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Mundari every day , by Svetlin Yosifov
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Landscape Finalist – Dreamlike Karst Landscape , by Liu Ruiqian
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Convergence , by Jim Signorelli
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Flow , by Masayoshi Mizuno
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Whispers Above the Clouds , by Ramin Barzegar
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Street Finalist – Anonymity in Motion , by Ben Speed
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – The attire of indigenous people , by Junjie Chen
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Architecture Finalist – Bierpinsel , by Martin Wacker
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Fishermen with tresses , by Salvatore Franco
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Portrait Finalist – Life in western Hunan26 , by Xiaoyue Yan
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – Picking Vegetables , by Kenan Wang
Black and White Photo Awards 2026 – Open Theme Finalist – El hijo , by Leny Pellitero Cabero
On behalf of the Black and White Photo Awards 2026 organization, we would like to congratulate every award-winning photographer.
Thank you to everyone who made this edition of the Black and White Photo Awards possible. Above all, to all the participants and the jury.
And to those who didn’t make it onto this list, we wish you the very best of luck in the next edition.