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We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Photo Mode Awards — a celebration of creativity and visual storytelling in games. This year’s entries showcased the incredible talent within the virtual photography community.
A big thank you to the studios and publishers who supported this year’s event, including Bethesda, CD Projekt Red, Sucker Punch Productions, IO Interactive, Bend Studio, Frontier, Bandai Namco, PLAION, 505 Games, Santa Monica Studio, and Insomniac. Your backing helps highlight the importance of photo modes and creative expression in modern gaming.
We’re also grateful for the support of Animate Everything, VPRT, VGP Network, Society of Virtual Photographers, and Artists of Society, and to everyone who took part — from the photographers behind each entry to the developers building the worlds we love to explore and capture.
Watch the Photo Mode Awards 2025 on YouTube.
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This category celebrates the most exceptional photo mode experience within action games. It honours titles that not only bring thrilling gameplay but also provide players with robust tools to creatively capture dynamic moments, breathtaking combat, and immersive worlds.
This category celebrates the most remarkable photo mode experiences in the adventure genre. Focused exclusively on games that offer players the chance to explore immersive worlds and capture their journeys with photo mode, it highlights titles where visual storytelling and artistic expression thrive.
This category celebrates RPG games that provide outstanding photo mode features, enabling players to creatively capture and showcase their adventures. This award focuses on role-playing games where photo mode enhances the storytelling, character development, and immersive worlds that define the genre.
This category at the Photo Mode Awards celebrates outstanding independent games that offer players the tools to unleash their creativity through an in-game photo mode. This award honours the artistry and innovation of indie developers who have included this feature, allowing players to capture and share the beauty of their unique worlds. It’s a testament to the growing influence of photo modes in indie titles, where small teams deliver big visual experiences.
This category celebrates the finest photo modes in simulation games, highlighting those that offer players a chance to creatively capture stunning moments. From detailed landscapes and lifelike vehicles in racing games to immersive worlds in other simulation genres, this award recognises the tools that empower players to showcase the artistry and realism within these experiences.
Nominees in this category are recognized for their ability to elevate virtual photography through both their personal artistry and the broader impact they’ve made on the community.
This style of photography is all about trying to capture the personality, expressions, and emotions/connections of an individual (person or fantasy) or group individuals by utilizing the background atmosphere, poses, and lighting.
Architecture photography generally means photography that focuses on buildings, structures, and urban/fantasy environments, showcasing creativity in composition and design. It can include shooting building exteriors and interiors, as well as bridges, other structures, and cityscape.
Captures will contain a high intensity scene with dynamic moments, showcasing movement, energy, and vitality in various contexts, from sports to a fight scene.
Close up photography is focused on intricate details, capturing the beauty of small subjects often unnoticed by the naked eye. It’s an exploration of the world up close.
This category focuses on the unique and visually stunning worlds crafted by independent game developers.
Nature photography is focused on elements of the outdoors. Specific subjects may include landscapes, wildlife, flora, and other elements of the environment.
Starts June 10th, 2025
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