KBr Photo Award (25,000 Euros)

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About KBr Photo Award

In June 2025 Fundación MAPFRE is launching the 3rd edition of the KBr Photo Award, a biennial international prize that reaffirms the Fundación’s support for artistic creation. This support takes the form of promoting the winning photographer on a national and international level and furthering their career with a cash prize, two exhibitions and an associated catalogue. With this initiative Fundación MAPFRE is increasing its support for photography in the context of the KBr’s programme. Alongside the exhibitions, lecture cycles and activities associated with the programme, the new KBR Photo Award both consolidates and expands the Fundación’s activities relating to contemporary photography.

From June 1 to September 1, 2025, the call for entries is open for the third edition (2025) of the KBr Photo Award, the international competition organized every two years by the Foundation. This award seeks to recognize and highlight photographers with an established professional career whose work demonstrates artistic values of particular interest within the tradition of documentary photography.

The prize, which is awarded to unpublished projects, seeks to acknowledge and promote the work of the winner through a cash prize, an exhibition showcasing the project in the Foundation’s two galleries (KBr and Madrid), and the publication of an accompanying catalog.

• Sponsor Organisation: Fundación MAPFRE

Benefits of KBr Photo Award

The prize is 25,000 Euros.

KBr Photo Award Requirements

• The KBr Photo Award is open to Spanish and non-Spanish photographers
• Aged over 18 
• Those that will produce a new photographic project or complete an already undertaken one, both previously unpublished and which have not been entered for any other similar competition.
• Candidates must already have a career in which they have already had at least one individual exhibition or have one publication.

Application Date and Process

The selection process comprises 2 stages:

Stage 1: A pre-selection committee at Fundación MAPFRE will assess all the entries and select the entries considered most suitable for presentation to the jury.

Stage 2: An international jury will select the winning entry. The jury will consist of 4 members who are prestigious figures in the international art world, selected by Fundación MAPFRE, in addition to the chief curator of photography of said institution.

Available in Spanish and English.

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Application Deadline

01 September, 2025

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