Seventh International Felix Schoeller Photo Award and German Peace Prize for Photography

The renowned international Felix Schoeller Photo Award will take place for the seventh time in 2025. Professional photographers are invited to submit their work in the two categories "Sustainability" and "Young Talent" by April 5, 2025. Only those who are currently training to become a photographer can enter the prize for the best young talent. The competition for the "German Peace Prize for Photography", which is also only open to professional photographers, will be held at the same time. The deadline for submissions is also April 5, 2025. The Peace Prize was first launched in 2019 as a joint project between the city of Osnabrück and paper producer Felix Schoeller. The company has been a pioneer in the production of specialty papers for photography since 1895.

Excellence in photography is the focus of the international Felix Schoeller Photo Award

The international Felix Schoeller Photo Award was launched in 2013 and has gained an excellent reputation in the global professional photography community in the seven editions to date. Professional and emerging works from over 100 countries testify to the high level of attention that the award generates among professional photographers. At the same time, the outstanding standard of the submissions testifies to the shared global aspirations of photography. Works can be submitted for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award in two categories: "Sustainability" and "Newcomers". Prize money of 5,000 euros is awarded in each of the two competition categories.

The Young Talent Award 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. Interested photographers can submit their work until April 5, 2025.

Photography promotes exchange on the topic of peace

The German Peace Prize for Photography honors work that deals 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.

Michael Dannenmann hands over the chairmanship of the jury to Simone Klein.

Michael Dannenmann, founding member of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award and jury chairman from the very beginning, is devoting more time to his own photographic projects, 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 and 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 Kunsthaus Zürich, the Director of 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.

All information including uploads at https://www.felix-schoeller-photoaward.com/

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About Felix Schoeller
Felix Schoeller harnesses the power of paper. The specialty paper manufacturer empowers customers and partners to develop solutions that benefit people and the planet. Founded in 1895, the family-owned company offers proven paper solutions ranging from photographic and digital printing papers to decorative papers for the furniture and wood industries, release papers for medical products and industrial applications, sublimation papers for fashion, sportswear and home furnishings, and flexible paper composites for packaging. In addition to proven paper solutions, Felix Schoeller promotes the use of paper in new applications and replaces limited resources with paper as a renewable raw material. True to the vision of making life better with paper, the company follows the central brand promise PAPER MADE FOR LIFE. Hans-Christoph Gallenkamp has been managing the Osnabrück-based family business in the fifth generation since 2018. felix-schoeller.com

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