The winners of the Silk Cities Photo Festival 2025 have been officially announced, celebrating powerful visual stories centered around the theme "Rebuilding Life." Highlighting human resilience, community recovery, and urban renewal in the face of adversity, displacement, and change, the winning photographs capture the physical, social, and emotional dimensions of survival. These works from global photographers are now showcased in the open-access Silk Cities Digital Gallery and will be featured in both an official festival eBook and a special exhibition at the 5th Silk Cities International Conference.

Winners

Here are the winners of Silk Cities' International Photography Competition!

  • First place:
    Rayhan Ahmad - Voices of Survival
  • Second slace:
    Mouneb Taim - One Note Against a Thousand Bombs
  • Third place:
    Mohammad Ezzattalab Moghaddam Kodehi - Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Runners-up

This section includes the runners-up in alphabetical order.

  • Agata Joukov – Remains

  • Christopher Wilton-Steer – Rock Breakers

  • Damira Tagaeva – Liberation

  • Mohammad Rakibul Hasan – The Blue Fig

  • Ololade Olawale – Kissed by Scarcity

  • Rayhan Ahmad – Voices of Resistance

  • Shubhodeep Roy – After The Storm, Nothing Remains Still

  • Sujan Sarkar – Act of Justice

  • Tapas Halder – Throat Cancer Survivor Working His Workshop

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