Competition entries

2025 ZEKE Award

Exhibit Title Photographer Country Home page Year(s)

Beyond the Lake

ZEKE Award: Shared First Place Winner

Tony brought home nuts, claiming Rosemary gave them to him, though she existed only in his dreams. Adolf and Raúl’s house was burned down...

Carlos Folgoso Sueiro Spain   2020 - 2024

Healing Wounds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rw...

ZEKE Award: Shared First Place Winner

Thirty years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, remarkable partnerships have emerged: survivors reconciling with those who killed their loved ones&mdash...

Jan Banning Rwanda 2024 - Same

Eustasy

ZEKE Award: Honorable Mention Winner

Atafona, a small town located in the delta of the Paraíba do Sul River, is caught in the grip of environmental change. Over the past few decade...

Felipe Fittipaldi Brazil   2015 - 2024

One Landscape Divided: Border Wall and Human Crisi...

ZEKE Award: Honorable Mention Winner

Decades of political gridlock have prevented comprehensive immigration reform in the US, with bipartisan efforts stalling again in 2024. The border ha...

Laurie Smith United States and Mexico 2018 - 2024

NET-ZERO TRANSITION

ZEKE Award: Honorable Mention Winner

Facing the urgent climate crisis, "NET-ZERO TRANSITION" documents innovative solutions across Europe aimed at reducing emissions and promoti...

Simone Tramonte Europa   2020 - 2025

“Were Afghan Women to Unveil Their Tales”

ZEKE Award: Honorable Mention Winner

“Were Afghan Women to Unveil Their Tales” is a project that gives a close and respectful look into Afghan women’s lives, showing wha...

Valentina Sinis Afghanistan   2024 - Same

I Grant You Refuge - Gaza Photo Exhibition

ZEKE Award: Honorable Mention Winner

I GRANT YOU REFUGE, is a collective photo exhibition featuring extraordinary images by six photographers from the Gaza Strip, representing the dozens ...

I grant you refuge Photo Exhibition Palestine 2023 - 2024

Manuela de Nazaré

Despite the fact that Nazaré is known in the world for its gigantic waves, with the surf competition "Nazare Tow Challenge” made fam...

Martin Miklas Portugal 2022 - 2023

Operation Identification

Operation Identification The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State began a service-learning project�'Operation Identification (OpID) led ...

Kevin Downs United States 2024 - Same

LO QUE LE PASO A HAWAii // WHAT HAPPENED TO HAWAII

Puerto Rico exists within a unique neo-colonial liminal state - American enough to pay federal taxes, but not American enough to have the right to vot...

Jesse Ilan Kornbluth Puerto Rico   2024 - 2025

Philadelphia Chinatown and the 76ers Stadium

The proposed development of the 76ers basketball arena threatens Philadelphia's Chinatown, a central community hub for Asian Americans. The propos...

Rodney Atienza United States   2022 - 2025

American Muslim Experience

In the symphony of American life, the nuances and harmonies of the Muslim community often remain unheard. “American Muslim Experience” see...

Syed Yaqeen United States 2020 - 2024

Culture + Climate on PEI: Family Potato Farm

Renowned for its seafood, potatoes, and Anne of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island (PEI) is an ideal vacation getaway. However, it’s currently e...

Angela Rowlings Canada 2022 - 2024

Lamproba 🌀

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Zakaria Chelidze Georgia   2024 - Same

Lebanon 2024: A Wartime Olive Harvest

Lebanon's 2024 olive harvest took place in October and November as Israel carried out airstrikes across the country. Pickers gathered in olive gro...

Elizabeth Fitt Lebanon   2024 - Same

Slavic Village StoryProject

Visual images shape the narratives people and communities carry, whether based on illness or healing. This narrative framework forms a lens through wh...

Mark Silverberg United States   2022 - 2024

Coney Island People 50 Years

These images, found in my 10th and latest book, Coney Island People 50 Years, are from 1970-2021. They simultaneously look back in time while giv...

Harvey Stein United States   2014 - 2021

Impact of war

The following project is a long term examination of consequences of war in Ukraine through visual documentation of its impact, highlighting multitude ...

Patryk Jaracz Ukraine   2022 - 2025

Hostages

After the horrors of October 7, 2023, the families of at least 341 missing Israelis began advocating for their return. Among the missing were seniors,...

Adar Eyal Israel   2023 - 2024

Election night in Montevideo, Uruguay

Voting in elections in Uruguay is mandatory for citizens eighteen and over.  Uruguay uses a two round system that if no presidential candidate ob...

Frank Mobilio Uruguay   2024 - Same

New Orleans Cultural Traditions

Lovell is passionate about photographing people within their cultures. Upon moving to New Orleans in 2008, he began documenting the city’s secon...

Charles Lovell United States   2019 - 2024

Lost life

He stayed alone many years ago. First he lost family - wife and son, then he lost work, then flat and the last he lost was the interest in life. He mo...

Yana Raaga Latvia   2022 - Same

wave

I wanted to show the resonance between Kamakura's sea and surfers in a new way

ZHU ZHETAO Japan   2024 - Same

RISING THREAT: Livelihoods Under Threat Along the ...

Along the Bay of Bengal, where nearly 1.4 billion people live, water has become perilously unpredictable. On the coast of India’s Odisha state, ...

Michael Robinson Chávez India   2023 - Same

Tinuola, story of Mary

That’s the story of Mary, born on the 2nd of May 1994 in Mushalash, a small town in Lagos State in Nigeria. Her grandmother called her Tinuola, ...

Federico Tisa Italy 2018 - 2024