The Largest Photography Competition | CEWE Photo Award

Entries to the CEWE Photo Award 2025 have closed

The worlds largest free photo contest has finished for this year, receiving an amazing 656,547 entries making it the biggest CEWE Photo Award ever. Keep an eye out for news about the winning photos.

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Explore the different categories

No matter what your photography style or passion, there’s a perfect category waiting for you to showcase your talent and enter.

Discover the prizes to be won

There’s over €250,000 worth of prizes to be won. You can still win something, even if you place in the 1000th place. From a dream holiday to photography equipment, learn about the range of prizes on offer.

Learn about our charitable partnership

Participate and do good. For every photo entered into our photo competition, we donate ten Euro cents to our charitable partnership with SOS Children's Villages International

The world’s largest free photography competition

The CEWE Photo Award manages not only to reach and connect photo enthusiasts across the globe but also to showcase and celebrate earth’s beauty.

We’ve got ten different categories for you to submit your greatest photos to, all under the slogan “Our world is beautiful”.

Image: Manfred Voss, "Frozen Lighthouse" (CEWE Photo Award 2021 Overall Winner)

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Over €250,000 in prizes to be won

The CEWE Photo Award is a photo competition free to enter and open to anyone who enjoys capturing the beauty of our world. Your photos will be judged by a panel of recognised industry experts, journalists and professional photographers.

1st place

The main prize is a unique trip worth 10000 euros, a voucher for photo equipment worth 5000 euros and a voucher for CEWE photo products worth 2500 euros.