Prepare yourself for a serious visual feast! We’ve just celebrated the Emerge Awards, which means we can finally reveal all the well-deserved winners.

For the past six months, our Emerge challengers have been pouring their time and creativity into twelve fortnightly challenges, and we’ve been completely blown away by the standard of entries. Their imagination, originality, and determination to not only meet each brief but also elevate their work to new heights has been nothing short of inspiring.

Alright, enough chatter – let’s jump straight into the individual challenge winners and let their incredible images do the talking!

01 Framed

Winner: Kaori Stewart | Kaori Stewart Photography

02 Spaced Out

Winner: Kaori Stewart | Kaori Stewart Photography

03 Highs & Lows

Winner: Liz Dranow | TimePunk Pet Photography

04 Under Cover

Winner: Jo Lyons | Jo Lyons Photography

05 Pantastic

Winner: Polona Železnikar

06 All In The Details

Winner: Sara Steedman | oslo_oska_whippet_boys

07 Silhouetto

Winner: Yvonne Jansen | BlissfulTails

08 Slow Motion

Winner: Angela Schneider | Big White Dog Photography

09 Mirror Image

Winner: Carol Mudra | Apawture Studios

10 Double Trouble

Winner: Carol Mudra | Apawture Studios

11 Bokehlicious

Winner: Abi Bradbury | Abi B Photography

12 Shake!

Winner: Polona Železnikar

Overall Winners

Now it's time for the big winners, selected for their full set of twelve challenge images.

In third place...  

Angela Schneider

Second place goes to:

Sara Steedman

And our overall winner of Emerge 2025 is... 🥁

Polona Železnikar!

WOW, what beautiful work. Congratulations to all our winners for Emerge 2025! 🎉

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