Press Photo Serbia 2026 Exhibition Opening and Awards Ceremony

The best press photographs of 2025 are finally coming before the public. The Photography Development Centre is proud to announce the opening of the Press Photo Serbia 2025 exhibition on Sunday, 21 June 2026, at 7 p.m., at the City Gallery, KC Grad, Belgrade (Braće Krsmanović 4).

The Press Photo Serbia 2025 exhibition presents a selection of 185 of the best press photographs taken between November 2024 and November 2025. The exhibition features awarded, commended and other selected works from the 27th edition of the national Press Photo Serbia competition, one of the most important photography competitions in the country.

The exhibition will present works that marked the previous year, offering a powerful and multi-layered visual record of social, political, cultural and sporting events in Serbia. After a detailed review of more than 500 submitted works, the expert jury selected the award winners across several categories, evaluating the photographs based on authorial approach, documentary value, ethics and social relevance.

Press Photo Serbia 2025 Grand Prix

By unanimous decision of the jury, the Press Photo Serbia 2025 Grand Prix was awarded to Andrej Hložan for his photograph “Kobre”.

The photograph was taken in Novi Sad during a public protest, on the night between 13 and 14 August 2025, and shows members of the Special Purpose Military Police Detachment “Kobre” at the moment of confrontation with demonstrators.

Award winners and jury commendations

Awards by category were presented to the following authors: Anđela Stevanović Živković (News) for the photograph “Sazvežđe”; Armin Durgut (News Reportage) for the reportage “Studentski protesti”; Nenad Mihajlović (Flash Reportage) for the reportage “Blokada suda u Novom Sadu”; Uroš Arsić (People Reportage) for the reportage “Na korak do pravde”; Irfan Ličina (Life) for the photograph “Studenti Sava iz Ćuprije i Nadija iz Novog Pazara”; Peđa Milosavljević (Sport); Konstantin Novaković (Sports Reportage) for the reportage “Buzkaši, nacionalni sport Avganistana”; and Mina Delić (Arts Reportage) for the reportage “La Beata”.

The jury also awarded commendations to the following authors: Anđelko Vasiljević (People Reportage), Milica Macanović (Portrait), Mina Delić (News), Ana Batrićević (News Reportage) and Anđela Stevanović Živković (Life Reportage).

The awards were decided by an expert jury composed of: Vladislav Mitić, photo editor of Nova, Radar and Radar Online; Marija Janković, photo editor of the weekly magazine Vreme; Predrag Uzelac, graduate photographer and lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad; Oliver Bunić, photojournalist at Blic; and Zvezdan Mančić, president of the Photography Development Centre.

The exhibition is being organised as part of the project “Photography Without Artificial Additives: For Media Literacy and Visual Truth in the Age of AI Images”. The project is implemented within the programme “EU Resource Centre for Civil Society in Serbia”, carried out by the Belgrade Open School in partnership with civil society organisations: Novi Sad School of Journalism, ENECA, Užice Child Rights Centre, New Planning Practice, Safe Paths, Young Farmers of Serbia, and the international partner Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. The project is supported by the European Union and will be implemented in the period from 2023 to 2026.

About the Press Photo Serbia competition

Press Photo Serbia is a national competition for the best photographs in the media, with a tradition spanning more than 25 years, organised by the Photography Development Centre. Since its founding in the late 1990s, the competition has been dedicated to promoting authorial and documentary photography, developing professional and ethical standards in the media, and protecting photographers’ copyright.

For more than 25 years, the national Press Photo Serbia competition has continuously affirmed authorial, documentary and press photography, with a particular focus on professional and ethical standards in visual reporting.