Bennett Prize
Image: Amy Werntz, Carlyla, oil on panel, 2024, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of The Bennett Prize.
ART
Amy Werntz
Bennett Prize
Dallas-based Amy Werntz was named the winner of the fourth Bennett Prize. Her paintings reveal an obsession with time and the everyday moments and experiences that define most of our lives. The artist focuses on an older generation of people, and how their posture, clothing and bodies reveal the stories of their lives. In depicting elder subjects, she hopes to counteract the ways in which "society has become so focused on youth as the representation of beauty and seems to have lost the reverence for age and experience," and to challenge the viewer to confront fears of aging and an impulse to overlook our seniors as a result.
Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2025
Image: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Family group photo on a Christmas day, South Africa, Johannesburg, Thokoza, 2017. © Lindokuhle Sobekwa
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Johannesburg-based artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa is the 29th recipient of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his book I carry Her photo with Me. Deeply personal, the project began when Sobekwa found a family portrait with his older sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. When the siblings were seven and thirteen, she chased him and he was hit by a car and badly injured. She disappeared hours later, only returning a decade later, ill. By this time Sobekwa had become a photographer. He tried to take her portrait, but stopped when she reacted angrily. Ziyanda died soon after. Through this scrapbook-like publication, Sobekwa explores the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history.
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Prix Niépce 2025
Image: © Ed Alcock / MYOP
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ed Alcock
Prix Niépce
Ed Alcock is the winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2025. Born in the UK in 1974, Ed Alcock has lived in France for 25 years. A member of the MYOP agency since 2011, after working as a correspondent for The New York Times, he collaborates with various titles in the French and international press, including The Economist, Elle, Le Monde, Le Nouvel Obs and El País. At the same time, Ed Alcock is developing a personal body of work on family, heritage and identity, including Home, Sweet Home, a series produced over four years, focusing on the upheavals caused by the Brexit. He describes his photographs as "somewhere between documentary and autofiction", offering "an intimate, narrative exploration of reality".
Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
Image: Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, community centre in Makli, Pakistan, 2017, designed by the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and built by local people.
ARCHITECTURE
Yasmeen Lari
Achievement Award
Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa has announced that Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari is the winner of the 2025 Achievement Award. After a successful career based in Karachi, Yasmeen Lari retired from her architectural practice in 2000 and focused on the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, dedicated to local, sustainable, vernacular architecture. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in 2005, Lari expanded her practice by embracing a bottom-up "humanistic humanitarian action" and rewriting the role of contemporary architecture. In response to the catastrophic floods that hit Pakistan in 2022, Yasmeen Lari pledged to help build over one million houses, guided by her "four zeros" philosophy: zero carbon, zero waste, zero donors and zero poverty.
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Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts
en photographie 2025
Image: Le geste, 2000. © Sarah Moon © Adagp, Paris, 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sarah Moon
Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en photographie
The Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en photographie 2025 has been awarded to Sarah Moon. With a career spanning more than fifty years, Sarah Moon is distinguished for her work in perpetual metamorphosis always carried by a singular signature: a dark and dreamlike atmosphere, often crossed by the recurring motif of childhood. Since her beginnings in fashion and advertising, Sarah Moon has worked to make a photograph "a one-second fiction." Each of her images is a story that she does not tell but suggests by containing it in the suspense of a gesture or the enigma of a look: a whole possible world, not yet happened, that she was able to perceive and that she gives us a glimpse of. (Anne Maurel)
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DIVIA Award 2025
Image: Tropical Space, Premier Office, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2022. © Trieu Chien
ARCHITECTURE
Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn
DIVIA Award
The Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) Award 2025 has been awarded to Vietnamese architect Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn, founder of Tropical Space. The prize honors women architects whose work contributes to cultural diversity and inclusion in architecture. Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn's architectural practice, Tropical Space, is based in Ho Chi Minh City and is known for its use of local brick, commitment to climate-conscious design and sensitive engagement with local building traditions. Notable projects include the Cham temple-inspired Premier Office in Ho Chi Minh City and the Terra Cotta Workshop in Quang Nam Province.
RIBA UK Awards 2025
Image: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Tower Hamlets Town Hall, London. © Timothy Soar Photography
ARCHITECTURE
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
RIBA London Award
RIBA London Building of the Year
AHMM's transformation of the Royal London Hospital into the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall has been named as RIBA’s 2025 London Building of the Year. The scheme on Whitechapel Road has added a contemporary extension to the Grade II listed former hospital, parts of which date back to the 1750s. It now functions as the headquarters of the council, which had decided to use the neoclassical building to bring its operations together into a single location after the hospital moved out in 2012 to an adjacent site. RIBA described the scheme as a "tour de force of reinvention, combining a sensitivity to the existing building’s story with a sharpness of contemporary detailing".
