Winners Announced!
Sydney, Australia – Tuesday 2nd December, 2025
Professional and amateur photographers worldwide were invited to enter the 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.
From over 3600 entries from around the world, the winner of the 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year (based on a folio submission of at least 4 images) is J.Fritz Rumpf of the USA.
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2025 - Second Place - Karol Nienartowicz, Poland
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2025 - Third Place - Joyce Bealer, USA
The winner of the 12th International Landscape Photograph of the Year (awarded for a single image) is Lukas Trixl from Austria.
The International Landscape Photograph of the Year 2025 - Second Place - Albert Dros, The Netherlands
The International Landscape Photograph of the Year 2025 - Third Place - Dave Drost, USA
There are also some special awards which change each year to keep things interesting and the 2025 winners are:
The Black & White Award 2025 - Torsten Pull, USA
The Seascape Award 2025 - Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, Iceland
The Snow & Ice Award 2025 - Kung-Fu Li, Taiwan
The Stormy Sky Award 2025 - Dennis Hualong Zhang, Armenia
The Lone Tree Award 2025 - Benjamin Barakat, Switzerland
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards presents a selection of the world's best contemporary landscape photographs and our thanks go to our esteemed and expert judging panel for giving us their time, their consideration and their opinions:
-David Burnett, co-founder Contact Press Images, USA
-Tim Parkin, ON LANDSCAPE Magazine Editor
-Andrew Mielzynski, 2024 International Landscape Photographer of the Year
-Kaye Davis, NZIPP Grand Master of Photography
-Jim M Goldstein, Fine Art Photographer and Author, USA
Yet Another Level
“When you look at the photographs in this book, ask yourself if your landscape photographs are really good enough to sit alongside?
Maybe one or two are, but I know deep down that a lot of my favourite photographs wouldn't make the grade. It's not that they aren't 'great' in their own right or they are technically deficient, it's just that the Top 101 landscape photographs in this book are better in one way or another: better technically, better aesthetically, or of a more exciting subject, location or event. Perhaps they are better in several ways - if I knew the ingredient that makes that
difference, I'd be a very smart person!
Fortunately, I'm not a judge, just an administrator and in this role, I feel I have seen a noticeable lift in the level of work submitted – not just the Top 101, but the top 501. The work has been simply stellar.
However, we can only accept the Top 101 for publication and to win the major prize, the Landscape Photographer of the Year, requires more than a single good image – it requires four great photos. This is why we have two award categories – the photograph of the year (for single images) and the photographER of the year for a portfolio of work. While taking a single prize-winning image is challenging, creating four of them is more challenging still.
So, a big congratulations to J. Fritz Rumpf from the USA, our International Landscape Photographer of the Year for 2025.
This is the twelfth year of our awards. We received 3601 entries and the threshold for inclusion in the book (a Top 101 entry) was a score of 86.6%. And as we have done in previous years, we've included an online listing of the next 101 top scoring photographs (our Top 202+). Congratulations to all these photographers.
There is US $12,500 cash purse for the best Photograph of the Year (single shot, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), the best Photographer of the Year (portfolio of four photographs, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), and five special subject awards. All 11 winners also receive a physical copy of the annual Awards book.
Thanks of course to our judging team: David Burnett, Jim M. Goldstein, Kaye Davis, Tim Parkin and last year's winner, Andrew Mielzynski.
On behalf of David Evans, my co-convenor, we hope you enjoy the best landscape photographs in the world from 2025.”
Peter Eastway
Chairman of Judges
For all the details and winners, and the top 101 images, please visit the website to download the eBook:
