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Kiana Hayeri: No Woman’s Land (solo show)
Muska, 14, returned to Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan from Pakistan with her family in February 2024. She was going to school in Pakistan and is determined to continue her education. “Here the restrictions are more than in Pakistan. I used to go to a Madrasa in Pakistan, but here I cannot go. I’m good at reading and writing. I’d rather live in Pakistan, there I could at least pursue my education.” The Canadian-Iranian photographer’s show at Area Verde Camollia 85 tells a collective story of the lives of Afghan women under the Taliban regime.
Photograph: Kiana Hayeri/Siena awards festival 2025
Katie Orlinsky: Vanishing Caribou (solo show)
Caribou just outside the Nunamiut community of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska in April 2021. Anaktuvuk means the place of many caribou droppings and Anaktuvuk Pass is located along the traditional migration routes for the Western Arctic and Teshekpuk caribou herds in the heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range. In the Arctic, climate breakdown has dramatically reduced caribou populations from 5m to 2m in a few decades. Orlinsky has documented indigenous communities in Alaska and Canada for more than 10 years.
Photograph: Katie Orlinsky/Siena awards festival 2025
Muhammed Muheisen: Life and War (solo show)
A child reacts as youths playing with toy guns scare him in an alley of the Palestinian refugee camp Al-Amari, 2009. The Jordanian photojournalist’s show is hosted at the La Tenaia cultural centre. The Pulitzer prize winner has spent half of his life documenting the effects of conflict through the eyes of the most vulnerable. His images capture the life that continues even in the heart of war: makeshift games in the rubble, fragile smiles, acts of courage and resilience – testimonies that can break down stereotypes and give voice to the voiceless.
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/Siena awards festival 2025
Adrees Latif: Mexico Border (solo show)
Eliana, 22, a migrant from Venezuela, holds her three-year-old daughter as she shouts towards a National Guard soldier after he halts her from breaching a razor-wire fence along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, Texas, 2024.The theme of borders emerges powerfully in the project on display at the Accademia dei Rozzi, documenting the tension between hope and desperation of people on their way to a new life along the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border.
Photograph: Adrees Latif/Siena awards festival 2025
Jianxing Zhu: Journeys & Adventures (Sipa award)
Fruit trees growing in tents.
Photograph: Jianxing Zhu/Siena awards festival 2025
Michiel van Noppen: Tales of the Forest Keepers: Safeguardian a Fragile Bond (Sipa award: storytelling | nature, environment and conservation issues)
Mamita, a GPS-collared tapir in the Tapir valley, guides Julian to the different Jicaro Danto trees, ensuring that the next generation of tapirs keep an endangered symbiosis alive. The Tapir valley nature reserve serves as a living testament to the unwavering commitment of the local community in preserving the region’s unique biodiversity.
Photograph: Michiel van Noppen/Siena awards festival 2025
Jabin Botsford: The Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump (Sipa award: storytelling | general news)
Members of the US secret service scramble toward the stage as the Republican presidential nominee and former president, Donald Trump, fell while speaking as shots from an attempted assassin rang out toward him during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. on Saturday 13 July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Photograph: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Siena awards festival 2025
Shane Gross: Cloud of Life (Sipa award: underwater life)
Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) tadpoles among lily pads in a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Photograph: Shane Gross/Siena awards festival 2025
Levi Goldbaum: Plane Overload (Sipa award: street photography)
Photograph: Levi Goldbaum/Siena awards festival 2025
Jana Margarete Schuler: Between Blood and Glitter (Sipa award: storytelling | daily life and contemporary issues)
Cross Innovation Day 2024. Atziry, 9, stands in her courtyard in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, holding one of seven dogs that provide security in a dangerous environment. In Juárez, where women face persistent threats, even home isn’t always safe. As the daughter of Baby Star, a former Juárez champion, Atziry is part of a family with a long wrestling tradition. Already accompanying her mother to the ring in costume, she may one day step into the ring, continuing her mother’s legacy.
Photograph: Jana Margarete Schuler/Siena awards festival 2025
Santi Palacios: No One Arrived in Time (Sipa award: storytelling | general news)
Pablo Mendoza, a 21-year-old biology student from Cádiz, south Spain, studying in Valencia, rests on the mud at the end of a workday after helping clean the flood-ravaged streets of Paiporta for six consecutive days, in Sant Josep Street, one of the most affected areas, 4 November 2024.
Photograph: Santi Palacios/Siena awards festival 2025
Ali Jadallah: Situation in Gaza Amid Ongoing Israeli Attacks (Sipa award: storytelling | general news)
Palestinians stand on a road as black smoke and flames rise over a building after Israeli attacks in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, 6 June 2024.
Photograph: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Siena awards festival 2025
Giacomo d’Orlando: Crocodile Keepers: The Guardian of the Sierra Madre Rainforest (Sipa award: storytelling | nature, environment, and conservation issues)
The local community of Dunoy is releasing a juvenile specimen in a small creek adjacent to the Disulap River. The release of juvenile crocodiles into the wild represents the culminating phase of the Head Start programme, which seeks to enhance hatchling survival rates and facilitate the recovery of the Philippine crocodile population. Crocodiles serve as a keystone species in freshwater ecosystems.
Photograph: Giacomo d’Orlando/Siena awards festival 2025
Thibault Gerbaldi: A Symbiotic Relationship (Sipa award: fascinating faces & characters)
Photograph: Thibault Gerbaldi/Siena awards festival 2025
David Lombeida: The Silent Displacement (Sipa award: documentary | photojournalism)
Abdu-Rahnan’s child sleeps outside on a property where the owners let the family use the land. Abdu-Rahnan used to live in a neighbouring village in Wadi al-Seeq with 31 other families. After 7 October an Israeli activist working with the community discovered a settler online chat forum calling for a massacre of Wadi al-Seeq. Settlers came into the village and started attacking the entire community of 250 members. The entire community left on 12 October, and have been displaced throughout the surrounding areas.
Photograph: David Lombeida/Siena awards festival 2025
Amit Eshel: Life on the Edge (Sipa award: animals in their environment)
Photograph: Amit Eshel/Siena awards festival 2025
Kiliii Yuyan: The Kayak and the Dogsled (Sipa award: storytelling | daily life and contemporary issues)
A dog team carrying hunters and narwhal mattak crosses over a crack in the sea ice on Inglefield Fjord, near Qaanaaq, Greenland, on 24 May 2023. Dog teams are the primary form of transportation in north Greenland, where few snowmobiles exist. This is due to a number of factors, chief among them a desire by hunters to keep from disturbing calving narwhals with noise, as well as the desire to keep the traditional culture of dogsleds alive.
Photograph: Kiliii Yuyan/Siena awards festival 2025
Dean Mouhtaropoulos: Six Sided Dice (Sipa award: sports in action)
Kazakhstan, Belgium and Japan compete in the men’s 5000m relay final B during the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships at the Ahoy Arena on 17 March 2024 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/International Skating Union/Siena awards festival 2025
Beniamino Pisati: Up There (Sipa award: storytelling | daily life and contemporary issues)
Women of the mountain pastures. Within the stations we find the calécc – primitive square structures of about 4 square metres, made of low stone walls. At the start of summer, the herds are taken to the first station of the pasture, at 1,400 metres. The station’s calécc is covered with a temporary roof structure.
Photograph: Beniamino Pisati/Siena awards festival 2025
Shirley Wung: Glowing Luminous Elf in the Forest (Sipa award: the beauty of nature)
Photograph: Shirley Wung/Siena awards festival 2025
Javier Aznar Gonzàlez de Rueda: Love, Hate and Rattlesnakes (Sipa award: storytelling | nature, environment and conservation issues)
Kids watch as Western diamondback rattlesnakes are accumulated in a pit during the annual Jaycee’s Rattlesnake Round-Up in March 2020. Many of the snakes later die from decapitation, while others succumb to the weight and asphyxiation within the pit. Started in 1958, held annually in Sweetwater, Texas, the event sees hundreds of snakes captured from the wild and accumulated in pits. After measuring, sexing and extracting venom from the snakes, they are killed for their skins, which are sold along with the meat and some organs.
Photograph: Javier Aznar Gonzalez de Rueda/Siena awards festival 2025
Dian Ji Wu: Eclipse of Motion (Sipa award: under 20)
Photograph: Dian-ji Wu/Siena awards festival 2025
