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PISPA 2025 - The Annual Exhibition !

We invite all our participating photographers, winners, and finalists to Naples to attend our annual exhibition, which will take place from September 18 to 21, 2025 at the Magazzini Fotografici Center.

An opportunity to come together around an exceptional event in a dynamic city that breathes street photography.

Schedule and key dates for the PISPA exhibition :

- September 18 :Festival opening for the public and newcomer photographers
- September 19 : Photographers' reception opening (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
- September 20 : Public opening verinissage (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
- September 21 : Last day of the exhibition. Removal at 6:30 PM

Maggazzini Fotografficci opening hours : 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM

PARIS INTERNATIONAL STREET PHOTO AWARDS 2025

Whatever your nationality or the country where you live in, submit us without delay your best street photography projects. Take part in our contest and give yourself a chance to face the constructive critical eye of our expert influental jury.

A new edition, a new dimension: heading to Mexico !

We are proud to announce that the 2025 edition of the Paris International Street Photo Awards is taking a historic step forward :

Our winners, jury's special nominees, and finalists will be showcased at the largest festival dedicated to Street Photography in Latin America, in the vibrant city of Querétaro, Mexico, at the end of October 2026.

A unique event that will bring together enthusiasts, collectors, and experts from around the world, at the heart of a celebration that shines an international spotlight on street photography.

Querétaro, a global cultural stage

After Naples, a mythical destination for street photography, we now take you on an unforgettable experience in Mexico, in a city where colorful streets, bustling markets, and rich culture create a dream setting for image lovers.

During this exceptional festival, our award-winning photographers will be at the heart of a major international exhibition. But that’s not all :

- Conferences, workshops, portfolio reviews

- Meetings with publishers, gallerists, and key players in photography

- A full immersion in one of the most influential Street Photography festivals

Grand Prix 2025 : Capture the street with excellence

This year again, we reward creativity with an iPhone 16 Pro – 1 TB.

An exceptional tool to capture the street with power, precision, and freedom.

Snap Collective, renewed partnership:

This is a partnership that we introduced last year with the aim of giving our two great winners the opportunity to print their first monograph, entirely supported by our partner publishing house Snap Collective. To our great surprise, Snap Collective went even beyond the objective we had set for it, which was to print the work of our two grand prizewinners in a Coffee Table Book, to the extent that this publishing house specializing in Print On Demand also printed the books of 5 other street photographers who are : Charlotte Stone, Txomin Rodriguez, Bernd Wickermeier, Matias Fuentes, and Jaejoon Ha. Street photographers who all have in common that they participated in our Paris International Street Photo Awards photo contest. We are therefore proud and happy to continue this adventure with this loyal and promising partner who, thanks to our work, now gives more space to street photography in its catalogue.

Be on the cover of a major contemporary photo magazine:

One of the two grand prizewinners, whether it is the street photographer of the year 2025, or the best Street Photo project will be on the cover of the photo magazine FotoSlovo which is now our partner.

And that's not all:

The works of the two grand prize winners will also be published in another magazine which is also our partner, Openeye, a magazine whose editorial line is focused on contemporary photography, and which now gives more and more space to Street Photography.

Interview with Victor Gassmann, Premium Partner and General Secretary at Groupe PICTO

Could you give us a brief overview of the history of the PICTO lab, its evolution over the past 20 years, and who it serves today?

A family business founded in 1950 and certified as a Living Heritage Company, PICTO is today the leading photographic laboratory in France. The story of PICTO began with Pierre Gassmann and the great photographers close to the Magnum Photo agency (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, William Klein, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat).

Read the full interview

Interview of Jo Voets, the "Best Street Photo project" 2024

Hello Jo, you are the "Best Street Photo project" 2024. What do you think about being selected as a winner among hundreds of other photographers ?

Having been 'seriously' into photography for more than 30 years, I've always stayed under the radar, maybe because I'm not great at networking.

So, I was mainly very surprised, but also proud and happy to have won this wonderful award.

Lire l'interview complète

Why participating in a photo contest is an important step for a Street Photographer's CV ?

We really want you to be motivated by unleashing your talent, improving your skills, by connecting with our large community of beginner, expert and renowned PISPA street photographers.

Don't keep your photos just for you thinking that your work is still not mature or not ready enough to be shown in public ! Having such a kind of mindset can be damaging to your photographic self-esteem for the middle, long term.

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Our years of experience doing photo contests has taught us that almost all photographers in some moment experience that paralyzing feeling of never being ready.

Those who succeed are those who are going one steep further believing that a street photo journey is a learning process like in any other fields.

The reason why at a given moment they stop being shy by taking the effective action of submitting their work to be seen by other photographers and evaluated by jury experts.

We believe that the confrontation of ideas and the comparison of talents is an effective way and a short path to success. Is it probably the best way that exists, to progress and increase your skills as quickly as possible.

For this, what could be better than participating in one of the best competitions in the world dedicated to street photography.

An exceptional edition, an exceptional jury:

As every two years, a good part of our jury changes in order to bring freshness and incorporate new profiles with innovative perspectives. What does not change is our commitment to build an inclusive jury with a certain parity at each edition, which this year is respected to the letter insofar as there are 5 women with exceptional profiles and 5 men with rich and experienced backgrounds. Who all have in common being fine connoisseurs of the world of contemporary photography with for many of them a sharp expertise in Street Photography as they master the past history but also current trends. Which does not make us doubt for a moment their qualities and what amply qualifies them to provide an informed judgment on the files of the candidate photographers.

Interview with our Premium Juror, Angela Ferreira, curator of the Museum of Photography in Fortaleza, Brazil, and artistic advisor to the FotoFestival SOLAR

You have an interesting profile because you are both a photographer and a curator, which makes your CV quite special. How did this transition happen for you? And at what point did you decide to step to the other side of the scene? Do you think that your background as a photographer gives you a particular advantage when it comes to curation ?

For me, there was never a radical transition from one role to another. It has always been a continuous, hybrid gesture, in which photography, curating and education intertwine. I see photography as a form of thought, a way of asking questions about the world and about myself.

Read the complete Interview

PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, YOU CAN NOW APPLY TO OUR COMPETITION WITH YOUR STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORK !

Become the Street Photographer of the Year 2025

3000 $ CASH PRIZE & MORE

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FAQ - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

+ Who should I contact if I have a problem with my entry, certificate or contest result or an exhibition ?

Write to our email address : contest@streetphotoawards.art

If you haven't received a response after 48 hours, your email may have gone to spam without us being able to see it.

In this case, contact us on Instagram : @pispa_streetphotoawards

DO NOT write to a member of the jury; they only handle the judging of applications at various stages. They will be unable to help you, and contacting them is a mistake.

The same goes for contacting one of our partners. They have no influence in the awarding of prizes and awards.

Simply follow the contact procedure via email and Instagram follow-up. Under normal circumstances, and outside of busy work periods, we respond on average within 72 hours.

+ Can we participate with work already submitted last year or with which we participated in another competition ?

Yes, this is not a problem, since our jury changes largely with each new edition. In addition, we do not take into account what is done elsewhere in other competitions. Our jury in its way of proceeding focuses only on the entries received in our competition.

+ Do photos have to be taken in Paris to enter the PISPA competition ?

FALSE. Although our competition is headquartered in Paris, our competition is “international”, as its title suggests. You can therefore participate with photos taken anywhere in the world, as long as your photo is “Street Photography”.

+ What are the technical requirements for the images that can be submitted ?

Participation is done with files sized for web format, namely 72dpi, sRGB format, and a maximum of 1500px for the longest side.

+ What do the Jury's Special Nominees and Finalists win ?

The works of the Jury's Special Nominees and Finalists will be exhibited in Queretaro, Mexico, end of October 2026 in a major event organized by PISPA. Their works will be published in FotoSlovo Mag in 2026 in a special issue dedicated to street photography.

+ Who are the members of the jury for this edition ?

Please refer to the page dedicated to the Jury.

+ What are the categories of the competition ?

Being the most detailed Street Photography contest in the world. We have a large list of categories that photographers can apply to because we believe in diversity of eyes when it's come to express and interpretate the Street. For more information please refer to our dedicated categories page.

+ Who can participate in our competition ?

All photographers regardless of the country they live in. Just apply with a simple street photo or a series of street photography.

+ What is the timeline of the competition ?

Please refer to our dedicated deadlines page.

+ What do the 3 big winners win ?

A cash prize worth $3,000 including the latest iPhone 16 pro. In addition, the work of these three winners will be exhibited in Queretaro, Mexico, at the end of November 2026 in a photo festival and in a major event organized by PISPA. One of the 3 winners will be on the cover of FotoSlovo Mag in 2026 during a special issue dedicated to street photography. To see the full packaging, please refer to our page dedicated to the prizes.

+ How much does participation cost ?

For full details please refer to our page dedicated to deadlines.

The opinion of Editor-In-Chief of Openeye Mag about Street Photography :

If we think about it, street photography is the essence of real photography. This is the photo in its purest state, without any artifice. It is the instantaneous taking of images in the urban setting, streets, railway stations, squares... everywhere men find themselves in the cities. It is the instant image of life, without filter and without embellishment. These are images that also show the great feelings: joy, love, pain, fear, hatred, death...