Announcing the 2025 competition Winners & Finalists!

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The people have spoken!

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The votes are in...

Congratulations to our second annual People's Choice Award winner: Philipp Egger! See his winning image Dance of the Elements, along with the 19 other contending People's Choice images right here — now in gallery and memory game format!

2024 exhibition now on view!

2024 exhibition now on view!

Come see the big picture!

BigPicture’s 12th anniversary exhibition is now open to the public at the California Academy of Sciences until April 12, 2026. See all the winning images and play this year’s interactive game, then see what else the museum has to offer. Plan your visit and tickets here.

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BigPicture's publication of photography and essays, Seeing It All: Women Photographers Expose Our Planet, is now in its 2nd printing! This inspiring collection features a foreword by Sylvia Earle and highlights the work of 11 remarkable female photographers—all award recipients and jurors of BigPicture.

An 2024 Indie Book Award Finalist, Seeing It All boasts over 125 dramatic images that illustrate the extraordinary complexity of the natural world and challenge our very relations and perceptions of it.
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