Night of Photography 2025 – competition results

The theme of this year’s Night of Photography competition was City Limits / Limits in the City.

The jury, consisting of Kamila Bondar, Tomek Fudala, Agata Grzybowska, Joanna Kinowska, Michał Łuczak, and Karolina Ziębińska, unanimously appreciated projects that thoroughly analyze the changing urban space, showing its boundaries—physical, social, and symbolic—from a local, historical, political, or personal perspective.

Four projects by established artists and two by a debuting artist and collective were awarded. The jury appreciated diverse projects that stood out for their formal coherence, consistency of action, experimental approach to the medium, and combination of documentary observation with poetic narration.

The winning works will be shown during the third Night of Photography, which will take place on September 12, 2025.

Thank you for all your entries!
Below are the winners of the competition – congratulations on your victory!

Person/collective with achievements

Marcin Nalepa Third Landscape

For raising an important local issue, capturing the unobvious areas of urban nature, including wasteland, and showing the value of green enclaves for city residents, as well as for the excellent title.

Dorota Raczyńska Beyond the Water

For a consistently executed, coherent project, revealing changing dividing lines through an original combination of photography and watercolor; for a visual dialogue between the natural topography and the administrative order of the city, and sensitivity to the relationship between the natural environment and urban space.

Maciej Stępiński Production of Space (cycle II)

For insightful reflection on the dynamically changing space of the suburbs around Warsaw; creative use of AI as a tool for creating a dystopian, multidimensional vision of contemporary urbanization; and for consistently pushing the boundaries between documentary and fiction.

Tytus Szabelski-Różniak Capital

For creating an evocative and formally coherent series; for an insightful analysis of urban space as a reflection of political changes in Eastern Europe and a consistent depiction of the homogenization of late capitalist architecture across national borders, taking into account the presence and experience of residents.

Debut person/collective

Anna Chyrykala and Darii Bogdanova In Between Places

For blurring boundaries, addressing the universal theme of identity and belonging through poetic visual storytelling; for the original, beautiful combination of urban landscapes of Warsaw and Minsk, and the subtle portrayal of emotions related to migration, longing, and friendship.

Tomek Cichorek Warsaw Dream

For sensitivity to detail and for showing everyday experiences of Warsaw as a space of senses, memory, and anxiety; for skillfully combining documentary observation with poetic metaphor.