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!
- Winner: Voices of Survival by Rayhan Ahmad
- Second Place: One Note Against a Thousand Bombs by Mouneb Taim
- Third Place: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by Mohammad Ezzattalab Moghaddam Kodehi
Runners-up
This section includes the runners-up in alphabetical order.
- Voices of Resistance by Rayhan Ahmed
- Throat Cancer Survivor Working His Workshop by Tapas Halder
- The Blue Fig by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
- Remains by Agata Joukov
- Kissed by Scarcity by Ololade Olawale
- After The Storm, Nothing Remains Still by Shubhodeep Roy
- Act of Justice by Sujan Sarkar
- Liberation by Damira Tagaeva
- Rock Breakers, Northern Pakistan by Christopher Wilton-Steer