2025 Winners

First Place - 2025 General News

The mothers of Danylo Nikittskyi, 15, left, and Alina Kutsenko, 15, who were killed by a Russian missile, grieve as they pay their final respects during a funeral ceremony in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 7, 2025.

Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press

First Place - 2025 Feature

BROKEN FAMILY Anita falls asleep embracing her girls, Scarlett, 10 and Ashley, 3 holding onto fragile hope as they await an uncertain destiny at their apartment in Brooklyn NY on October 4, 2025. The migrant family from Ecuador struggles after her husband Hermel was detained by ICE following his immigration court hearing leaving a broken family. Children are traumatized, caught in the crossfire of Trumps controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort. Why are you taking away my father from me, Scarlett wept. He is the only one I have. Her biological dad was murdered, and this is a second painful loss in her young life. She was emotionally shut down, making drawings asking Jesus to protect her Papa and watching TikTok videos about saying goodbye. Ashley just celebrated her 3rd birthday without her father who is missing these moments in the life of his precious, precocious daughter as he languishes in detention. They are working to secure his release, insisting he has been wrongly accused. She tells him, Surrender to God. Youre not a criminal Youre not alone, you have us. They had traversed the notorious Darien Gap following their dream of a safer life in America. Anita seeks help at local churches assisting migrants with legal aid, therapy, and prayer as the family slowly adapts to a new normal without him. Her own hearing is looming. There is a vast political divide. Some protest, decrying a lack of due process. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

First Place - 2025 Sports Action

St. Louis Cardinals' Victor Scott II, bottom, scores against the San Francisco Giants on Brendan Donovan's double during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in San Francisco.

Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press

First Place - 2025 Sports Feature

Millington senior Reese Holmes looks for solace in the arms of a teammate while dealing with an emotional defeat in the Division 3 softball quarterfinal game on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at the Mott Community College softball diamond in Flint. Algonac defeated Millington 8-6.

Jake May / The Flint Journal, MLive Media Group

First Place - 2025 Portrait

ICE. Masked ICE agents and federal officers in balaclavas detain migrants after court hearings during the Trump administrations controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on July 16, 2025. Agents say the masks save them from doxing and protect their families from the animosity towards them in society. Critics believe masks are intimidating and further traumatize children witnessing detainments of their parents, and that they should be required to show their identity and be held accountable the same as police officers. Legal efforts to unmask them are ongoing. There is a vast political divide in America. Some protest, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

First Place - 2025 Domestic (U.S.) Spot News

A firefighter protects a beach front property while fighting the Palisades Fire Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif.

Jae C. Hong / Associated Press

First Place - 2025 International Spot News

Two women embarace in a shelter during a missle attack on Kyiv, Ukraine on the early hours of Sunday September, 7, 2025.

Svet Jacqueline

First Place - 2025 Chris Hondros Memorial International News (Excerpt)

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Jehad Alshrafi / Associated Press

First Place - 2025 Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story (Excerpt)

ICE agents and federal officers detain migrants after they attend immigration court hearings at the Jabob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on July 28, 2025. Many migrants initially react with shock, then hopeless acceptance or anguish and tears.

Carol Guzy

First Place - 2025 Domestic (U.S.) Spot News Picture Story (Excerpt)

A firefighter jumps over a fence while fighting the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

Ethan Swope / Associated Press

First Place - 2025 Feature Picture Story (Excerpt)

Samantha Kortenhoeven helps her mother, Bobby Stephens, put on her jacket on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in their home in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Stephens battles diabetes and dementia, both requiring hands-on help from her daughter. I started noticing subtle changes with her, like she'd leave the damn stove on and little things that she never used to forget, Kortenhoeven said.

Abbey Cutrer

First Place - 2025 Sports Picture Story (Excerpt)

80-year-old Bart Elmer joins fellow players for a group photo before Elmer plays in his final senior hockey league game at Tri Valley Ice Dublin in Dublin, Calif., on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

Scott Strazzante / San Francisco Chronicle

Below is a list of the winners from the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar's 2025 photo contest. Thank you to everyone who entered and participated in the contest, and congratulations to the winners!

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