VIEPA 2025: People & Portrait Winners Capturing Human Emotion

VIEPA 2025 – People & Portrait Photography

✨ Celebrating the Human Essence / Die Kunst des Gesichts

Menschen. Begegnungen. Charaktere.
Die Gewinner*innen der People & Portrait Photography Kategorie des Vienna International Photo Award 2025 erzählen in ihren Bildern von Emotion, Identität und Schönheit.

📍 Award Ceremony:
LIK Akademie für Foto und Design, Seidengasse 17, 1070 Wien
🗓 Date / Datum: 19. September 2025
🕖 Start / Beginn: 19:00 Uhr
👉 See the full gallery

🥇 GOLD MEDAL

Roberto Corinaldesi / Italy

🥈 SILVER MEDAL

Vicky Hodgson / United Kingdom / Lollipop Lips

🥉 BRONZE MEDAL

Roberto Corinaldesi / Italy

🎖 Jury Special Prize – Sponsored by B.EXCLUSIVE

Michael Potts / United States / Gazelle
🏕️ 6 nights for 2 people at the Lucky Bay Hideaway, Newfoundland, Canada
🎁 Prize value: €2,000
🔗 Lucky Bay Hideaway Info

🌟 Honorable Mentions

Michael Potts / United States – Gazelle, Kaela in Death Valley
Diana Burdein / Germany
Szergej Afanaszjev / Austria
Philipp Bauer / Austria – HMRSTL
Lilya Corneli / Netherlands – Self-Portrait with a Pearl Earring (Tobeamuse series)
Arman Zhenikeyev / Kazakhstan – Whisper Underwater
Anna Matysiak / Poland – The girl from the painting
Tom Zimberoff / United States
Heinz Innerhofer / Italy – faces
Enrica Ridolfi / Italy – Shot down, Solo per un attimo
Alexander Ivashkevich / Estonia – Mistress of Inheritance
Veronika Verbitskaia / Ireland – Cubism
Mari Inagaki / United States – A woman or A mother
Marc Schewe / Germany

👤 VIEPA 2025 – People & Portrait Photography

✨ Die Kunst des Porträts / Celebrating Humanity

In der VIEPA-Kategorie People & Portrait steht der Mensch im Mittelpunkt – in all seiner Tiefe, Fragilität, Stärke und Würde.

Die prämierten Arbeiten sind ab Herbst 2025 in Wien sowie online zu sehen:
👉 https://www.fotofestival-wien.com/people-portrait-photography-winners-viepa-2025