Smithsonian Photo Contest 2025. More than 30,000 photographs were submitted, but only 60 have made it to the finalist stage. Over the last 20 years, readers have submitted more than 470,000 images to smithsonian’s annual photo contest.

All winning photographers will be exhibited at photo london 2025, a photography fair which brings together the world’s leading galleries, publishers and collectors, as well as an ambitious. The following six contest categories are drawn from subjects of special interest to smithsonian magazine: