The iPhone Photography Awards competition has been running now for 19 years, and the 2026 winners have just been announced.
In addition to four overall winners, there are first place awards in a wide range of categories, including abstract, animals, architecture, children, cityscape, landscape, lifestyle, nature, and people …
The IPPAwards organisers say that the quality of the photography demonstrates the truth of the old adage that it’s not about the camera, it’s about the photographer.
Abstract to architecture, landscape to lifestyle, portraits to street corners—the range is wide and the work speaks for itself. None of it came down to fancy equipment. It came down to paying attention.
Top billing went to a spectacular night shot of a volcano erupting in the Cayman Islands, taken on an iPhone 15 Pro. The gold, silver and bronze awards were won by strikingly different types of photos.
I find it’s always interesting to see the judges’ choices in photography awards. There are usually a great many shots where it is immediately clear why they were selected, as well as one or two that make one wonder.
Check out all the winning shots over on the IPPAwards site.
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