Our iPhotography 2025 Member Awards have once again been a massive success with a huge number of uploads and votes cast in this year’s photography contest.
Now it’s time to reveal all the finalists and winners.
What’s Being Announced?
This year we will be crowning multiple winners in this photography contest. With the addition of a new category in 2025, there’ll be 8 winning members announced today.
Firstly, we’ll be announcing our iPhotography Animal, Monochrome, Creative, Landscape, Nature and Portrait and Macro images of the year.
Finally, we’ll be announcing the big winner of the contest – iPhotography’s Photographer of the Year 2025.
2025 Member Award Winners
Though the iPhotography tutors selected the shortlists, it was you who voted for the overall winners of this year’s categories.
Our tutors review this year’s uploads and look at aspects of creativity and execution to help them select the shortlisted photographs.
Votes were cast by iPhotography members over 7-day period. They have been checked and verified so without further ado here are the winners…
Animal Image of the Year - WINNER
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Monochrome Image of the Year - WINNER
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Macro Image of the Year - WINNER
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Creative Image of the Year - WINNER
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Landscape Image of the Year - WINNER
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Nature Image of the Year - WINNER
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Portrait Image of the Year - WINNER
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Photographer of the Year 2025
There have only been 9 previous winners of POTY (Photographer of the Year) so this year’s champion is in a prestigious group.
In a change in approach our community have been voting for nominees all year long and the top 10 performing members formed this year’s shortlist. It was then down to you to decide on the overall winner of this top award.
Photographer of the Year is not about a one-off shot, this is about a selected body of work.
1st Place Winner – Jayne Williams
Congratulations to Jayne for being voted by our member community as the iPhotography 2025 Photographer of the Year!
Jayne, a former winner, is the first member to come back and claim the title of POTY after missing out in 2024. While awards don’t make a photographer better, it’s a great nod to her passion and development to continue to grow and improve.
This year each nominee for POTY were asked to select their strongest 5 images to form the showcase. Jayne’s images stretched the globe from the UK to West Coast USA and her adaptablity as a landscape photographer shines through with a strong style, great detail and elite compositions.
We are proud to see Jayne pick up the title of Photographer of the Year in a category that is always decided by just a handful of votes – and this year was no different!
Runners Up
Congratulations to our runners-up who were only within a single-digit number of votes to the eventual winner.
Everyone who made the shortlist fully deserves their spot for outstanding photography this year. Thank you to everyone who entered and voted in our end-of-year member photography contests.
2025 – Jayne Williams
2024 – David Allerton
2023 – Jayne Williams
2022 – Deborah McPhail
2021 – Deborah McPhail
2020 – Deborah McPhail
2019 – Barbara Coulson
2018 – Kari Davis
2017 – Anna Chmura-Jenkins
2016 – Tony Lawrence