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PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant

9th edition

PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant

© Verdiana Albano

Results

Main Prize

1st Prize
I Ain't From No East Coast by Verdiana Albano

€5,000, plus a projection at PhotoVogue Festival 2026 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

2nd Prize
Don't Cry For Me When I'm Gone by Irene Antonia Diane Reece

€2,000, plus a projection at PhotoVogue Festival 2026 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

3rd Prize
(Tsy) Possible by Charlotte Yonga

€1,000, plus a projection at PhotoVogue Festival 2026 and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

“In her layered and multi-dimensional project Verdiana Albano moves through the remnants of East Germany as if sifting through a family attic—lifting files and photographs, as well as furniture. Her work investigates the architecture of a childhood shaped by a white mother, a Black father, and a system already cracking at its seams. Between the posed and the documentary, she threads her own image alongside institutional archives, reminding us that the personal is always political. What emerges is a quiet insistence that identity is not inherited whole, but assembled – piece by piece –across time, place, and possibility.”
Katy Hundertmark, Independent Judge, on Verdiana Albano's I Ain’t From No East Coast – PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant 1st Prize Recipient

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New Generation Prize

New Generation Prize Recipient
Time Is A River by Niharika Chauhan

€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2026, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

"Through collages, photographs, and film, Niharika Chauhan traces the slow, uneven drift of time across Shahpur, the artist’s homeland. Niharika turns to four fragile witnesses, the crumbling ancestral home, the vanishing Sambar, the restlessly shifting Yamuna, and the memory of a grandfather, to reveal a village caught between what it has shed and what it has yet to become. Time is A River reveals a precision and emotional depth. It transforms personal memory into a wider meditation on ecology, inheritance, and the delicate space where the old dissolves and the new is still forming. Through this body of work, Niharika has crafted a vision of metamorphosis that feels at once intimate and universal".
Amak Mahmoodian, Independent Judge, on Niharika Chauhan's Time is A River – PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant New Generation Prize Recipient

Results

Solo Exhibition at PhMuseum Lab


To be announced in early 2026

Results

Features in PhMuseum's printed annual magazine


To be announced in early 2026

Results

6 Free Portfolio reviews

Each photographer will be granted a 60-min free portfolio review with a mentor of their choice from the PhMuseum Education Program.

Horas Mías (Hours Of Mine)
by Justina Leston

I Still Do Not Know Him
by LIYING HUANG

Vanities
by Najla Said

Look At Us Tenderly
by Natalya Madilyan

Cuevas De Sacromonte
by Perla Bayona

Chronicles Of The Ongoing
by Segolene Ragu

About

PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant

$11,000 in cash plus an exhibition at PhMuseum Lab, screenings at PhotoVogue Festival, and more

The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 9th edition, aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Its mission is to support the growth of new generations and promote stories narrated from a female perspective while responding to the need to work for gender equality in the industry.

To participate, you are invited to submit work centred around a specific theme, narrative, or concept. All approaches are welcome, from classic to more experimental projects, and you may present more than one body of work. By applying, you retain full copyright of your images at all times, and we will ask for your permission to share them on our social media channels.

The judging will take place between October and November, with the shortlist to be announced before November 20. Thank you for considering this opportunity, and best wishes for your applications!

Prizes

Supported by

Independent jury

  • Monica de Miranda
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    Monica de Miranda

    Visual Artist, Filmmaker, and Researcher

  • Katy Hundertmark
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    Katy Hundertmark

    Curator and Managing Editor of Foam Magazine

  • Amak Mahmoodian
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    Amak Mahmoodian

    Multidisciplinary Artist and Educator

  • Diana Markosian
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    Diana Markosian

    Documentary Photographer, Writer, and Filmmaker