Oct 06, 2025 | Source: IPAThe 22nd edition of the International Photography Awards (IPA) proudly revealed its two top honorees, selected from among 22 outstanding category winners and finalists, during the prestigious Lucie Awards Gala held on October 5, 2025, at the Benaki Museum in Athens. The museum came alive with hundreds of photographers and industry professionals in attendance, including this year’s category winners from both the Professional and Non-Professional divisions, along with many distinguished guests and supporters of the photographic arts.
IPA Photographer of the Year 2025, Abdelrahman Alkahlout, received this honor for his searing and deeply human series “Echoes of Genocide: Gaza’s Civilian Suffering.” Since October 2023, Gaza has been transformed into a harrowing landscape of destruction and loss — brutal airstrikes tearing through once-peaceful neighborhoods, as the cries of the wounded echo amid the ruins. Through his lens, Alkahlout’s work stands as a haunting visual testament to endurance, faith, and humanity’s will to survive amid unimaginable darkness, compelling the global community to witness, to remember, and to act.
