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The Photo Review: Best of Show 2025

09/04/2025
11/02/2025

About the Exhibition

This exhibition presents the work of the prizewinners of the 2025 International Photography Competition, organized annually by Photo Review, a critical journal of national scope and international readership. This year’s Photo Review International Photography Competition is juried by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman. Now in its 40th year, the annual competition, first held in 1985, attracts submissions from established and aspiring photographers. Prizewinning works have been acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Haverford College.

About the Photo Review

The Photo Review is a critical journal of international scope and readership. Publishing since 1976, The Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for the Mid-Atlantic region. With incisive reviews, exciting portfolios, lively interviews, the latest in books and exhibitions, The Photo Review biannual journal has earned a reputation as one of the best serious photography publications being produced today. Writers — including A.D. Coleman, Stephen Perloff, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power — have weighed in on subjects as varied as the posthumous publication of work by Diane Arbus, women in photography, the growth of digital media, the historical movement from Pictorialism into Modernism, etc., etc. In his ongoing series, “The Censorship Diaries,” Editor Stephen Perloff was at the forefront in covering the controversy over funding for the NEA and censorship of the arts.

The Photo Review has earned a reputation for lucid and incisive writing aimed at an intelligent and informed audience, but free of the cant and jargon that infects much contemporary writing about art. Thus, both arts publications and the popular press have looked to us for interpretations of what’s happening on the photography scene. Articles have been reprinted in such publications as AfterimageTo, Photography in New YorkAmerican Photo, and others.

Editor Stephen Perloff, a respected writer, educator and photographer, has been interviewed for The New York TimesThe Toronto Globe & MailThe Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Photo District News, and the New York Observer. He has received two critic’s fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Colin Ford Award for Curatorship from the Royal Photographic Society.

About the juror

Born in London, Peter Fetterman has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 40 years. Initially a filmmaker and collector, he set up his first gallery over 30 years ago in 1988. The Peter Fetterman Gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th-century photography in the country, particularly in humanist photography. Diverse holdings include work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Willy Ronis, André Kertész, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lillian Bassman, Pentti Sammallahti, Sarah Moon, and Jeffrey Conley. Peter has also written multiple books on photography, including The Power of Photography, Women: A Celebration, and Cornell Capa. His daily blog, The Power of Photography, has promoted the work of scores of photographers and is seen by many thousands of people around the world, including leading museum curators and serious photo collectors.

Exhibition events

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 4 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
FREE

Please join us for an opening reception celebrating the Photo Review: Best of Show 2025 on Thursday, September 4, 2025, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Register here.