Winner Announcement: June 18–21, 2026
Winners of the Impact Prize, Jury Prize, and People’s Choice Prize will be announced live at the Ostuni Foto Festival (June 18–21, 2026)

Current Jury

The PJP is juried by a group of experts with unbiased views based on these Judging criteria: News Value, Human Interest, Visual Storytelling, Versatility, Photographic Quality, Editing, Writing, and Overall Reporting.

Magdalena Herrera

Art Director / Photo Editor

Ron Haviv

Director/Co-Founder of VII Foundation

Natasha Egan

Executive Director / Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago

Alexia Singh

Senior Lecturer, BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication

Elizabeth Krist

Visual Thinking Collective

Mike Davis

Visual storytelling consultant / Editor / Educator

Jim Colton

Head of Jury / Editor at Large at ZUMA Press Wire

Pia Peterson Haggarty

Photo Director at Lonely Planet

Sarah Gilbert

Features photo editor at The Guardian

Sandra M. Stevenson

Writer / Visual Editor / Curator

Jim Powell

Photo Editor at The Guardian

Tara Pixley, PhD.

PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM & MEDIA STUDIES / LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY

James Nacthwey

Photojournalist

Steve McCurry

Photographer

Paolo Pellegrin

Lucie Honoree, Achievement in Photojournalism

Alison Nordström

Independent Curator and Historian of Photography

Ismail Ferdous

Photographer and Filmmaker

Alex Pollack

Director of Photography at National Geographic

Svetlana Bachevanova

Director of the FotoEvidence