Felix Schoeller Photo Award / Deutscher Friedenspreis für Fotografie
In the organizer's words:
The opening ceremony of the photography prize exhibition is on 25.9.25, Free admission.
For the fourth time, the City of Peace Osnabrück is calling on the international community of professional photographers to submit their work on the theme of peace to the German Peace Prize for Photography 2025. The prize was launched in 2019 as a joint project between the city of Osnabrück and the paper manufacturer Felix Schoeller, which has been a pioneer in the production of specialty papers for photography since 1895. Professional photographers can submit their work from January 20, 2025. The deadline for submissions is midnight on April 5, 2025. This also marks the start of the call for entries for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2025 in the two categories "Sustainability" and "Young Talent". Only those who are currently training to become a photographer can enter the award for the best young talent.
It is no coincidence that this Peace Culture Prize is based in Osnabrück. Osnabrück is a city of peace: the Peace Treaty of Osnabrück and Münster was signed here in 1648. The signing of the Peace of Westphalia brought the Thirty Years' War to an end. It is a lesson in history on how peace can be achieved.
The German Peace Prize for Photography is awarded to works that deal with the topic of "peace" photographically and conceptually. The definition of the term "peace" should be explicitly broad: From peace between peoples and countries to peaceful coexistence in the city and country, in the family or in groups, to the pictorial representation of the inner peace of individual people. The winner of the German Peace Prize for Photography can look forward to prize money of 10,000 euros.
In addition to the German Peace Prize for Photography, professional photographers can also apply for the international Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2025 in the "Sustainability" category.
The sponsorship award in the "Young Talent" category is aimed at photographers who are studying, undergoing vocational training or are photo assistants. Young talents can express themselves creatively here, as there are no thematic restrictions. Prize money of 5,000 euros is awarded in each of the two categories.
This year, Michael Dannenmann is handing over the chairmanship of the jury to Simone Klein. As a founding member of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award and jury chairman from the very beginning, he will be devoting more time to his own photographic projects in future, but will remain involved with the award in an advisory capacity. The new chair of the jury is Simone Klein, who has already been a member of the jury three times. Klein is currently an art advisor as well as an independent, publicly appointed and sworn expert for photography in Cologne. She studied art history, Romance and German studies in Bonn and at the Sorbonne, Paris. Following her position as Director of the Photography Department of Sotheby's Europe with auctions in Paris, London and New York, she most recently took over as International Director of the Print Sales Department at the Magnum Photos agency in Paris. The jury also includes art historian and curator Cathérine Hug from the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Director of the Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Nils-Arne Kässens, and Hannah Schuh, Visual Director of the art magazine ART.
For the German Peace Prize for Photography, the jury will be expanded to include Ulrich Schneckener, Professor of International Relations & Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Osnabrück. The winners will be announced and honored at a festive award ceremony on 25 September 2025. The award-winning photographs and the works of the nominees will then be on display in an extensive exhibition in the Museumsquartier Osnabrück.
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