Shortlist 2025 | British Photography Awards

Shortlist 2025

This is a gallery of all the talented photographers who made it into the shortlist. There are 400 images taken all over the world, showcasing the best of British photographic talent.

Select your favourite from each category and help us choose the People's Choice Award.

Landscape
Street
Low Light Photography
Birdlife
Drone
Event
Fashion
Pets & Domesticated Animals
Water Life
Documentary
Wedding
Commercial: Product
Architecture
Portrait
Land Animal
Self Portrait
Macro
Sports
Fine Art
Food & Drink

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Landscape

All the Gear
Blushing Lake
Cold Shoulder
Dune Tree
Eigg Gold
Emerald Jewel
Entwined
Ghost Ship
Hideaway
Ice
Limbs
Lone tree at Slioch
Moody Lighthouse
Mow Cop - Mist and the Morning Light
Reflections
Serenity
Skye light
The Pinnacles
The Quiet Caldera
Winter’s Breath

Street

08 from the series The Triangle
A magical historic town.
A Moment On The Lips
Carrying Joy
Dracula Nightmare
From the mist of the Ganges
Night Driver
Poolside
Rickshaw Dreamer
Saying Goodbye
Summer Construction in London
Summer Silhouettes
Tete a Tete
The Border
The Coldstream Guards
Vape attack
Walking Alone
Why walk
Without Sight
wrapped in love

Low Light Photography

All in 29 Seconds
Ancient Light
April in Hoi An
As the City Sleeps
Aurora at Mwnt
Aurora's edge
Between Earth and Stars
Coffee
Cosmic Within
Eternal Gaze
Find The Way
Gothic Ingram Street
Harvest Supermoon at Durdle Door
Kumano Hanabi
London in Motion
Milky Way over the West Pier
Other Sides Of The Moon
Southern Star Trails
Tower Trails
Vanishing World

Birdlife

Babysitting
Bad Hair Day
Champagne Bath
Chinstrap Mountain
Colour Fast
Crowned by Dust and Colour
Deity...
Drinking on the wing
Eye contact
Gannet Get Together
Help!
Hunting in the mud
Knot in Focus
Lunar
Tapestry woven by nature
The Kings Chick
Watcher
Where eagles dare
Where Ice meets Sea
Yellow-billed Hornbills

Drone

A Quiet Slovenian Morning
Before the fall
Bemersyde Loop, River Tweed, Scottish Borders
Braids of Erosion
Carried by Shadows
Caught in the moment
Crown of Light
Everything the light touches
Hastings: Past and Present
Late Night Rides and Fireworks
Momentary Glow
Picturesque Sicilian Village
Rowing in Water Flowers
Sculpted
Strada a serpente Passo Giau
The Final Resting Place of a Giant
The Little Church in the Sea
The Long Shadow
Unloading the Wheat
Walking along the waters lips

Event

All Is Love
Atherstone Ball Game 1
Back to Back to Back
Cooper's Hill
Curtain drop
Drink!
Drummers Circle
Gurkhas Attestation Parade at Pokhara, Nepal.
in the crowd
King Charles III views the Pyroton fire demonstration during a visit to the CSIRO
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Utilita Arena, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Notting Hill Carnival
Plane Spotters
Shred
Snap Out Of It
Springtrap, deconstructed
Surf
Swish and Swirl
The Rev
The Victory Parade

Fashion

A Primary Coloured Princess
All the colours of Autumn
Charlie & Tyler
Christall
Come Out And Play
Diamonds of Infinite Colour
Feathered Beauty
Flower Fairy: Adukita
Game, Set, Poise
Golden Hour
History tailored for today
House of Lunaria
Isolated Heroes
Justice
Luminosity
Ray of Sunshine
Sunset Chrome
This Figure
Unbound
Voltage

Pets & Domesticated Animals

"Noble Companion"
Desert Companions
Elegance in Bare Skin
Feed Me
GLOUCESTER GOES RETRO IN GLOUCESTER PAUL NICHOLLS PN1
Good For Your Heart
Mini Marvel
Pull…
Run
Sally
Standing pretty in a sea of purple on the heath
Sun Salutation
Sunrise at Tynemouth
Tails in Bloom
The Golden Statue of Lammas Park
The Horse Guards
The Rat Pack...
Unbound
Westruther Sheep Show 2025 , Scottish Blackface sheep
Workers on the moors

Water Life

A rush of red
African Crocodile with carcass
Baby Seal
Clowning around
Compass Jelly
Courtship in colour
Crab attack
Curious Eye
Dahlia Anemone
Ghost squid
Haulout
Just Chilling
Living in a maze
Playtime
Reaching Brittlestar
red fish in the red sea
Taken by a Ghost
The Ballet of the Reef
The Look
Toad's love

Documentary

(3) In Sickness and in Health
01 from the series The Triangle
Catherine Caughan
Climate Catastrophe
Crosses on a Mountainside
End of the Day
euphoria
Face Off
Home
Ice fishing
Lion's Roar
Peacefully Defiant
Putting out the blaze at 420
Swing Of The Thurible
The intelligence of the working hand.
The Necropsy
The Southernmost Post Office in the World
The Worker
You
Young at heart

Wedding

Big Day At Big Ben
Bride and the flower girl
Champagne Supernova
forever young
Haldi Hands
Lost in The Moment
Oulton Hall
Parallel Paths
Pendle Snow Queen
Right Time, Right Place.
Secret Kiss
Sunlit Promise
The Bride as DJ of Her Own Night
The Couple
The Little Oratory
The Look of Love
Tipsy Bride
Veil
Wedding Under The Stars
Weve done it !

Commercial: Product

911 Blues
Also available in oak.
Beware of the Crocs.
Clean shot
Derby, Served
dmm austria
Doggy Armour
Endurance — Everlast Concept Campaign
Hypervision — Oakley Concept Campaign
Koshi Bench
Mike's Hard Lemonade
Pop Pressure
Santa Fe: Black Rock Sands
Summer Essential product
Surface Interval
The Darkest Highlight
The Kings Messenger
Tomato soup the Bosch way
Valentino
Valhalla

Architecture

City on the Edge of Forever
Copper Twirl
Corridor of Light
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Engineered to Endure
Exit to Blue
Gropius's Studio Steps
Long Acre Building with a Twist
Modern Offices
Pastel beauties...
Salisbury Cathedral
Shadows of Industry
Sky Swimming
Station
Sun-drenched Atrium
The Morning After
The poetry of perspective.
Torii
Wave
Winter’s Silence in Bibury

Portrait

"Mum said I came out of the womb depressed."
09 from the series The Triangle
A Story in Motion: The Young Farmer in the
Abẹ̀fẹ́ (Beloved One)
Above and Beyond
Big Riverz
Bobby Vylan at Notting Hill Carnival, London August 24th 2025
Born in Scotland
Brandon Daord abover Liverpool skyline
Breath Before the Storm
Faith – Islam
Fragile Strength
Gregory Porter
Karate Family
Lee Child
Muscle and Milk
Paediatric Consultant Dr Dewi Evans, chief prosecution expert witness in the Lucy Letby trial, at his home near Carmarthen, Wales, UK
Performers from the Out There Festival
Shayno
William Kentridge with his sculpture 'Laocoon'

Land Animal

Arctic Fox carefully stepping forward
Arctic Wanderer
Chameleon Bokeh
Dominion
Eyes of the night
Fighting tigers
Focus
Fragile Giant
Grin and Bear it
Incoming forager
Mist maker
Mother Love
Peeping Tom
Red eyed tree frog
Strike a Pose
Sunset Giraffe
Take That
The Garden Visitor
There's a Dinosaur in the Garden
Zebra Crossing

Self Portrait

Above the Clouds
Between Me and Myself
Blue Planet
Carving Through The Peaks.
Come yum cha with me
Echo Chamber
Face to Face with the Kelpies
Handle With Care
Hold my... building?!?
In a Fantasy World
Inspired by Frida
Layered Into London
Out of Office
Shooting Sewage
Sitting in the Sky
Sunflower Girl
Swarm
The road to the mountains
Viewed through a filter.
Welcome To My World

Macro

"Suspended in Light"
"Tortoise Beetle Larvae"
Bluebell
Cicada Exuvia
Collaria arcyrionema
Demoiselles At Dawn
First Breath
Glistening Slime mould
Labyrinth of Sclaes
Let’s dance!
Mother of the Dunes
Pain Killer
Pink Elephant
Reticulated glass frog
Semelparity
Stag beetle
The Alchemy of Colour
The Colour of Stress
The Elephant in the Room
Time to Leaf

Sports

A study in concentration
Anticipation
Arron the Fell Runner
Ben Healy uncorks the big one. Tour de France stage 6 2025
Bowl Rider
Chaos
Chasing Tomorrow
CLASSIC RELIABILITY TRIAL STROUD AND DISTRICT MOTOR CLUB LTD SUNDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2025 PAUL NICHOLLS PN1
corps a corps
Defying gravity
First Ollie
Ford vs Chevy
I see colours
Ironman
Novak Djokovic’s “tweener” at Wimbledon 2025
Proud Dad Moment.
Shot Put in Action
Swimming in the Sky
The Grip
Young Surfer Study

Fine Art

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A Young Astronaut Lost in Space
Aidentities
Dance of the Dunes
Entanglement
Floating on air
Gin & Tonic
Hangar 57
Hiraeth
In the shadow of deception
Lily (Respect / Consent)
Sculptured in Stillness
She never cried
Tainted
Tangled thoughts
The last forest
The Rose of the Mediterranean
THIS IS HOW I FEEL WHEN I THINK ABOUT YOU
Untethered

Food & Drink

A Cut Above
A tray of windfall apples in mum's Shed
Charcuter-tree
Conception
Cream & Crunch
Crepes and Berries
Epic Sandwich
Figs Still Life
Healthy greens broth
Layers
Mushroom & Cheese Toastie
Mussels in a Parisian Bistro
Spring Onions on Hot Coals
Take a chip
Tea with Shadows
The Rhythm of the Farm
Time to Celebrate
Vegan Summer Tea
Verde
Wheat Beer