OPPO has announced the winners of its 2025 Photography Awards, the contest celebrating images captured using the brand’s smartphones.
This year’s edition received around two million submissions from 87 different countries, the highest number ever reached by the competition. The award ceremony will take place today, December 18, in Cairo, and will bring together creators from all over the world.
“Mobile photography is more than a tool, it has become a global stage for creative voices,” said Ling Liu, OPPO Overseas CMO. “Through the OPPO Photography Awards, we aim to support creators, give their perspectives global visibility, and inspire audiences to discover the extraordinary in everyday life.”
The 25,000 dollar Gold Award went to creator boooya for “Dialect, The Fading Voice”, a project that uses images to explore the crisis of local languages and their gradual disappearance. The Silver Award was instead presented to three photographers. Among them was Ray Cheung, who with the photo “Person from Another Place” managed to capture the uniqueness of a moment, a girl sitting on a bus, turning “a fleeting winter scene in Saint Petersburg into a poetic reflection on youth and solitude.”
Finally, the six Bronze Prize winners highlighted cultural diversity through their photographs. Among them stands out the work of Abdullah Salah, who documented the El Mermah equestrian festival in Egypt using an Oppo Reno 14 5G.