Dog Photography Awards organizes monthly contests for professional, amateur and student photographers worldwide, as well as an annual competition creating one of the most interesting contests in dog photography today. Our purpose is to promote talented dog photographers all over the world thanks to our worldwide known and experienced judges specialized in dog photography.
There were four categories for the 2022 Dog Photography Awards: Portrait & Landscape, Studio, Action and Dogs & People. Judges worked hard to select the first, second, and third-place photos from each category. This year’s winners are some of the most beautiful dog images you’ll ever see.
#1 Francesco Mura, 1st Place Winner In The Action Category
Winners of the Dog Photography Awards received prizes of up to €2,000 in cash (€500 for each category) as well as recognition from top media and newspapers. For this year’s edition, we received about 1400 applications from 50 different countries!
#2 Dalia Fichmann, 1st Place Winner In The Portrait & Landscape Category
#3 Kjara Kocbek, 2nd Place In The Action Category
The first edition of the Dog Photographer of The Year took place in 2021. The response was amazing as well as the level of the entered images in each category. We are two founders at this competition: Claudio Piccoli and I (Audrey Bellot). We decided to create this contest first of all because we are dog photographers ourselves, and this helps a lot in judging the pictures knowing what’s correct and what’s not.
#4 Daniela Schmid, 3rd Place In The Studio Category
#5 Sophia Hutchinson, 2nd Place In The Portrait & Landscape Category
Our 2022 jury was composed of six different renowned dog photographers: me, Audrey Bellot, – a 25-year-old dog photographer from France, Claudio Piccoli – a professional dog photographer from Italy, Iza Łysoń – a 25-year-old photographer and an ambassador for 500px photography website, Heike Willers – dog photographer based in Germany, Travis Patenaude – a studio dog photographer based in the United States and Anne Geier – a dog photographer from Austria.
#6 Su Kaye, 1st Place Winner In The Studio Category
#7 Sophia Hutchinson, 3rd Place In The Portrait & Landscape Category
Our criteria for choosing the winners were the following for this 2022 edition: a dog’s body language refers to the expression of the dog and its posture. Settings refer to the sharpness of the subject, the overall exposure and the lightning used for studio images. Composition is about colors, light, layers, story and overall impact of the image. Artistic choices are related to the chosen idea and its execution, its difficulty of realization and its rarity. Editing refers to the final look of the image and the techniques that seem to be used. We can detect problems in the editing such as masks, color banding, unrealistic flares, overlays, etc.
#8 Julia Haßelkuß, 3rd Place In The Action Category
#9 Jane Thomson, 2nd Place In The Studio Category
We are amazed by the quality of the work submitted and how different are the winning images. We are also happy about their originality, coming with the wonderful stories behind them, which makes the competition even more interesting also for us, judges and creators of the competition, discovering new talented photographers around the world.
#10 Sabrina Theden, 1st Place Winner In The Dogs & People Category
#11 Russell Charters, 3rd Place In The Dogs & People Category
#12 Sarah Ebner, 2nd Place In The Dogs & People Category
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