2025 LEICA WOMEN FOTO PROJECT AWARD

Unity Through Diversity

The sixth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award—a prestigious initiative dedicated to celebrating and empowering visual storytellers with a unique feminine perspective. This year’s theme, Unity Through Diversity, invites photographers to submit a photo essay exploring the importance of connection in times of division, using any make or model of camera.

The 2025 Leica Women Foto Project Award grant four photographers $10,000 each to help progress an in-progress, personal photo project expressed through the feminine point of view. In addition to the financial award, each winner will receive a Leica SL3 camera and a Leica Vario Elmarit-SL 24-70mm lens; to further support the completion or progression of a personal project, Applications for the Leica Women Foto Project Award will be reviewed by a panel of renowned figures in the world of photography.

Call for entries opens September 17, 2024, 9:00AM ET, and closes November 5, 2024, 11:59PM ET

The Contest is open only to individuals legally residing in the fifty (50) United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, or Canada (excluding residents of the province of Québec), in each case who are at least twenty-one (21) years of age at time of entry in the Contest.

Note:  All applicants must agree to the Official Award Rules prior to submission. View the Official Award Rules here.