In earlier years, the successful entries of the annual Minimalist Images Awards have shocked us with their embrace of surrealism and putting simplicity. In 2025, nonetheless, most of the compositions that took podium positions throughout classes inform layered, expressive tales of the human situation, and our connection to the world round us.
Now in its seventh version, the competitors attracted greater than 2,600 entries captured by photographers from over 50 international locations. The judges evaluated some 7,000 pictures spanning 12 classes earlier than conferring the title of Minimalist Photographer of the Yr 2025 to Alexandros Othonos for his sequence “Threads of Reminiscence’s.” Othonos’ assortment of photos superbly blends classic household pictures with brightly coloured thread, including a wholly new dimension to every composition.
Alexandros Othonos
The younger conceptual photographer, who hails from Greece, famous, “This mission can also be a retrospective on previous occasions, with my very own artistic intervention in every {photograph}. Again then, issues had been totally different, and in my view, though I didn’t expertise most of that period, there was a novel appeal to it. As I searched by these pictures, I felt a deep sense of nostalgia and emotion for my household. I consider that anybody who flips by an previous household album will really feel the identical method, experiencing the burden of time and the feelings it carries.”
There’s extra the place that got here from among the many roster of first place entries, together with Giuseppe Gradella’s portrait titled “Previous Current”, and Renzo Cicillini’s “Night Peace” sequence within the open class, which “captures this quiet transition between gentle and nightfall, a meditative interval the place nature and humanity meet with out phrases.”
Giuseppe Gradella
The winners from different classes, together with Structure, Panorama, and Photomanipulation, are not any much less beautiful. Feast your eyes on the bunch in our gallery.
Renzo Cicillini
It’s also possible to get pleasure from extra images from every successful sequence, together with runners up entries, on the Minimalist Photography Awards website. And if you cannot get sufficient visible minimalism, return in time to see a few of our favourite images on this type from 2024 and 2022.
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