With the support of Scope Miami Beach 2025, Picter, Photo Basel and Form. Gallery, we are proud to launch the Form Photo Award 2025. This annual photography competition is dedicated to discovering emerging voices, fresh aesthetics, and thought-provoking themes. It aims to foster global dialogue, intellectual exchange, and cross-cultural solidarity within the art community.
Last year, alongside receiving a cash prize, the winners of the Form Photo Award had their projects exhibited in Paris at Form Gallery. For 2024, the total prize fund of €4,500 will be awarded to three individual photographers or collectives. In addition, the winners will receive free participation in Scope Miami Beach 2025 during Miami Art Week.
Exhibiting at this leading-edge art fair—attended annually by over 500,000 gallerists, curators, collectors, critics, and photography professionals—offers an unparalleled opportunity to reach new audiences, gain meaningful recognition, and connect with key figures in the international photography scene.
The winning projects will also be featured in Form Magazine, providing further exposure to an international readership and enhancing the artists’ professional visibility.
May 2025 - submission
August 2025 - end of submission
September 2025 - shortlist with 10 projects is announced
September 2025 - winners announcement
- Applications are accepted online only.
- Each application must include the following materials:
- A short biography (up to 150 words)
- A project description (up to 400 words)
- 1–8 photographs taken between 2020 and 2025
Director of SCOPE Art Show and Sotheby’s Institute of Art alumna, leads the premier platform for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Hayley Smith is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world, best known for her role as the Director of SCOPE Art Show, a leading global platform for emerging contemporary art. Under her leadership, SCOPE has continued to expand its reach, showcasing a diverse array of artists and galleries from around the world. Her work emphasizes inclusivity, innovation, and the support of emerging talent
Co-Founder and Founding Co-Director of Art Salon Zürich, and the Director and Co-Founder of photo basel GmbH—Switzerland's first international art fair dedicated exclusively to photography. Held annually during Art Basel week, photo basel features approximately 40 international galleries showcasing a wide range of photographic practices and artists. Under Eisenhut-Hug’s leadership, the fair has successfully expanded to Berlin and Miami, becoming a pivotal event on the international art calendar. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in photography
Co- founded iconic gallery Riflemaker, counts Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran and Michael Seresin, cinematographer of Harry Potter, amongst her collectors. Annie Lennox has also been a long-standing enthusiast of the gallery’s representation of visionary powerful artists. Virginia Damtsa is also working with musician Peter Gabriel on a collaboration of art and music for his new i/o album, which features works by prominent artists such as Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Cornelia Parker, Olafur Eliasson, Annette Messager, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs, and others.
Founder of Form. Gallery / Publishing / Magazine - co-founder of Photo Kyiv Fair, artist and curator he graduated from the National Academy of Culture and Arts in Kyiv, where he majored in art expertise. Numerous of photography educational programs he share his experience to audience and create a powerful base and ecosystem for young talented wave of young photographers - some of them now established photographers exhibited in galleries, museums, fairs around the world, including Fotografiska and Center Pompidou, Paris.
• Each candidate must provide:
- A short biography
- Description of the project.
- From 1 to 8 photos taken or published in the last 5 years (starting in 2019)
- Digital images must be provided in JPG format, with a resolution no more than 2000 pixels in length. The image file size should be at most 2 MB.
• professionals or amateurs, art school students or the school of photography, independent photographers.
• all nationalities.
• over 18 years old.
Copyright:
The participants retain the copyright to all their photos.
In case the work is selected for the exhibition, the participants undertake to ensure its safety. They are responsible for checking that the saved photos do not violate the rights of third parties or organisations.
Participants whose applications have been accepted grant the Form Photo Award the right to use their photos for marketing purposes at the exhibition, including publications in the exhibition press, posting on the FORM website and in all communication media related to the FORM.
Registration is open from May 20, 2025, until August 1, 2025 (23:59 CET)
The submitted photos can be either black and white or colour.
They must belong in whole or in part to a series of photographs.