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FORM PHOTO AWARD
2025 FINALISTS
A conversation with Vladimir Seleznev about the merging of the Church and the militarized state in contemporary Russia
Photo © Justin A. Carney
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Form Photo Award 2025. This year, the standard of work is exceptionally high, reflecting the incredible talent and creativity of contemporary photographers from around the world. Each longlisted artist brings a unique perspective, a fresh aesthetic, and thought-provoking ideas that challenge and inspire.
The Form Photo Award, supported by Scope Miami Beach 2025, Picter, Photo Basel, and Form Magazine, is dedicated to discovering emerging voices in photography. It aims to foster global dialogue, intellectual exchange, and cross-cultural solidarity within the art community. Every submission represents a new vision, a story waiting to be shared, and the longlist is a testament to the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary photography today.

This year’s shortlist demonstrates just how extraordinary the field of contemporary photography has become, and we are proud to celebrate the vision, originality, and skill of all the artists included.
Andrea Sarcos
Remember Me as a Place is a long-term documentary project exploring migration, memory, and identity through the Venezuelan diaspora, including the artist’s own family. Born in Caracas to a Venezuelan father and Ecuadorean mother, she immigrated to the U.S. as a child and grew up undocumented in Florida. Since 2019, she has documented relatives and other Venezuelan migrants through portraits, landscapes, and archival materials, tracing hope, trauma, and resilience across generations. The work emphasizes dignity, cultural continuity, and the emotional weight of memory, reclaiming and preserving these stories for the future.
Andrea Sarcos is a Venezuelan-American photographer and educator based in Boca Raton, Florida. Born in Caracas, she immigrated to the U.S. as a child and lived undocumented for much of her youth. Her work explores migration, memory, and identity through portraiture and documentary storytelling. Her long-term project Remember Me as a Place traces Venezuelan diasporic journeys, blending personal and collective memory. Sarcos has exhibited nationally, received recognition from Photolucida, the Lucie Foundation, and the Eddie Adams Workshop, and was selected for the 2025 New York Times Portfolio Review. She also teaches photography for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County and serves on the board of Six Eye Films.
Marie Wengler
In her series The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages (2022–),Marie Wengler explores the intergenerational legacies of gender, creativity, and constraint. The work centers on Kate, the artist’s great-grandmother, portrayed at the same age as the artist today—100 years apart. Kate, an only child raised under strict gender norms, endured an arranged marriage, early motherhood, and lifelong, undiagnosed depression, while her intellectual and creative ambitions were constrained.
Using layered visual narratives—collages of analogue and digital photography, archival images, site revisits, and staged self-portraits—the series examines parallels and divergences between past and present. Time is presented as lived, embodied, and contested, highlighting how societal norms and inherited psychic structures continue to echo across generations. The project asks how far we have truly progressed and what returns when old ideologies resurface.
Marie Wengler (b. 1992, Copenhagen) is a lens-based visual artist and researcher (PhD; PostDoc Fellow) working at the intersection of medium-format photography and social inquiry, often in dialogue with other mediums, such as poetry, performance, and archival materials. In her practice, she explores and exposes the limits of ’normalcy’ in society. Her work has recently been shown in group exhibitions in NYC, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Deauville and Paris. Marie has won and been shortlisted for several awards, and has been featured in reputable publications such as the Prix Pictet Publication (HUMAN; 2023), facilitated by The V&A Museum. In 2024, she participated in the fully funded Tremplins Jeunes Talents residency in France, and in 2025, residence 25. Next year, she will take part in a three-month, full-grant residency in China. Marie’s works are held in the permanent collections of museum Les Franciscaines and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.
Ying Ang
“Present Griefs, Recent Disappointments” is a process of reconciling with my teenage self using the photographic practice as a therapeutic tool. By visually poeticizing feelings of self-doubt, insecurity and body discomfort, I am reconstructing aspects of my past with greater control and agency as an adult woman. Τhrough reshaping everyday objects, I explore the ways that texture, weight and placement can alter an object’s purpose. My main focus is placed on commonly used symbols of girlhood and on the awkwardness of the body during puberty. Through this process, my aim is to replace feelings of shame with a sense of (constructed) nostalgia over that period.
Eva Vei’s artistic practice focuses on themes of intimacy and self-reflection through non-linear visual narratives. By integrating photography with influences from painting and sculpture, she delves into everyday encounters, seeking to express and enhance her understanding of the emotional landscapes that shape interpersonal and intrapersonal communication. In 2022 she was one of the Fresh Eyes Talents by GUP Magazine and in 2023 she was nominated as a Futures Talent by Void, Athens. In 2024 she graduated from Valand’s Academy MFA on Photography in Gothenburg.
Ying Ang
Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines mushrooms as both biological forms and feminist metaphors, exploring non-reproductive cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Photographed in inner-city parks in Melbourne, the series examines how cultural fetishization of fertility shapes perceptions of women, nature, and reproduction. The mushrooms—solitary, clustered, decaying—become stand-ins for the female form, resilient and sensuous, challenging hierarchical notions of fertility and celebrating communal, rhizomatic, and transformative power beyond reproduction.
Ying Ang is a Melbourne-based photographer and author whose practice spans long-form storytelling across Singapore, Sydney, New York, and Australia. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally and includes collaborations with editorial and cultural institutions. She teaches at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, directs Reflexions 2.0 in Europe, and serves on the board of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne. From 2019–2024, she co-founded and curated Le Space Gallery. Her first book, Gold Coast, won multiple international awards and is held in the collections of MoMA and the State Library of Victoria. Her second book, The Quickening, received awards across Europe and Asia and has been exhibited at Rencontres d’Arles, the NGV, CCP, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and the V&A Museum. In 2025, her Gold Coast series will return to Rencontres d’Arles alongside her latest publication, Fruiting Bodies.
Julia Parris
Dreamscapes and Constructed Realities. Constructing as a form of mediation, I blend cut-paper collage with photography to create intimate, surreal landscapes. These imagined spaces become portals into my subconscious—where the silent weight of witnessing ongoing environmental trauma lingers. My work explores how collective ecological grief seeps into our personal lives, shaping inner worlds as much as outer ones.
Julia Parris is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist working in cut-paper collage and photography. She creates surreal, layered worlds that explore the subconscious and the personal and global impacts of climate change. Using everyday objects and printed ephemera, Parris merges unexpected elements into vivid, dreamlike environments. Tearing and cutting add texture and movement, which she preserves through careful lighting and photography. Her work evokes symbolism, mortality, time, and fleeting moments of euphoria.
Yana Hryhorenko
When the war began, the question “How are we?” echoed across Ukraine and beyond. Over time, answering has grown unbearably difficult. The war in Ukraine is, in many ways, the first online war, where Ukrainians process thousands of images and texts daily. Most construct an imagined, multidimensional reality from fragmented reports, documentaries, and eyewitness accounts. These internal landscapes make it hard to connect with one’s own psyche, which operates in emergency mode under the weight of constant vigilance. The images in the artist’s collages, made with a 3D smartphone scanner (Polycam), reflect this complex, volumetric reality of Ukraine.
Born in 1988 in Bila Tserkva (Ukraine). Based in Kyiv. Her artistic practice is built on the peculiarities of physiological and mental states (congenital anomaly of vision and anxiety/obsessive-compulsive disorders). Chaotic and abstract elements, the combination of several images in one, uncontrolled intuitive processing and the use of a 3D scanner, which takes elements of the image out of context, all this is a part of her medical history and artistic method at the same time. Member of Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization and MYPH. Participant of the international exhibitions and photo festivals in Ukraine, Poland, Italy, France. Germany, Great Britain, Korea, USA, etc. The works are kept in private collections in different countries of the world.
Marta Syrko
Marta Syrko is an artist who works in various mediums and techniques to explore the intersection between art history, social issues, and the human body. As a photographer and art director, she uses her skills to create fine art photographs that are visually stunning and thought-provoking. Her conceptual correlations with art history suggest that she is interested in how the past informs the present, and how we can learn from the artistic traditions of previous generations. Additionally, her use of portrait photography to address social issues indicates that she is also engaged in exploring contemporary concerns and questions surrounding identity, representation, and the body. By investigating the human body as a marker of identity in its imperfection, she is likely challenging conventional notions of beauty and perfection, and highlighting the diversity and complexity of human experience. Overall, Marta Syrko is an artist who is deeply committed to exploring the many facets of the human condition through her work, and who uses her skills and talent to create powerful, thought-provoking art. Marta Syrko's experiences as a Ukrainian artist living in Amsterdam have inspired her to use her platform to raise awareness of the conflict and turmoil taking place in her home country. Her collaboration with the Dutch National Opera & Ballet suggests that she is using her artistic skills to address these issues in a creative and impactful way.
other articles
  • Darius Himes
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    International Head of Photographs at Christie's Darius Himes oversees a global team in three locations producing auctions, exhibitions and catalogues as International Head of Photographs at Christie's. Prior to joining Christie’s in Fall 2014, Himes was director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco from 2011–2014. In 2007 he co-founded Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts. While working with artists such as John McCracken and Lee Friedlander, he is most proud of publishing first monographs for over a dozen emerging artists.

  • Hayley Smith
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    Director of SCOPE Art Show and Sotheby’s Institute of Art alumna, leads the premier platform for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Hayley Smith is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world, best known for her role as the Director of SCOPE Art Show, a leading global platform for emerging contemporary art. Under her leadership, SCOPE has continued to expand its reach, showcasing a diverse array of artists and galleries from around the world. Her work emphasizes inclusivity, innovation, and the support of emerging talent

  • Sven Eisenhut-Hug
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    Co-Founder and Founding Co-Director of Art Salon Zürich, and the Director and Co-Founder of photo basel GmbH—Switzerland's first international art fair dedicated exclusively to photography. Held annually during Art Basel week, photo basel features approximately 40 international galleries showcasing a wide range of photographic practices and artists. Under Eisenhut-Hug’s leadership, the fair has successfully expanded to Berlin and Miami, becoming a pivotal event on the international art calendar. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in photography

  • Virginia Damtsa
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    Co- founded iconic gallery Riflemaker, counts Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran and Michael Seresin, cinematographer of Harry Potter, amongst her collectors. Annie Lennox has also been a long-standing enthusiast of the gallery’s representation of visionary powerful artists. Virginia Damtsa is also working with musician Peter Gabriel on a collaboration of art and music for his new i/o album, which features works by prominent artists such as Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Cornelia Parker, Olafur Eliasson, Annette Messager, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs, and others.

  • Dimitri Bogachuk
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    Founder of Form. Gallery / Publishing / Magazine - co-founder of Photo Kyiv Fair, artist and curator he graduated from the National Academy of Culture and Arts in Kyiv, where he majored in art expertise.  Numerous of photography educational programs he share his experience to audience and create a powerful base and ecosystem for young talented wave of young photographers - some of them now established photographers exhibited in galleries, museums, fairs around the world, including Fotografiska and Center Pompidou, Paris.