Awards and jury

Awards

Jury 2025

Entries for Lens op de Mens 2025 are closed

An international jury made their selection from the submitted photos and assigned the awards.

Awards

All photos selected for the exhibition compete for these awards.

Amateur Photographers

  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Honourable Mention

Professional Photographers

  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Honourable Mention

Special Awards

  • Award for the most promising young photographer under 30 years of age (born 1994 or after)
  • Award for the photo that most aptly captures the sub-theme ‘human vulnerability’
  • Award for Creativity

The winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in both categories and of the special awards will be invited to submit five photographs and a brief CV for a special guest exhibition during the next edition of Lens op de Mens in 2027.

Jury 2025

Johan Brouwers | © Caroline Tanghe
Johan Brouwers

Jury Chairman

BEL

Caroline Alida
Caroline Alida

Jury member

BEL

Zjuul Devens
Zjuul Devens

Jury member

BEL

© Andy Hens
Andy Hens

Jury member

BEL / DEU

Carla Kogelman | photo Sonja Liebhart
Carla Kogelman

Jury member

NLD

© Jim Lowe
Jim Lowe

Jury member

GBR

© Carol Olerud FRPS
Carol Olerud

Jury member

NLD / AUS

Nooshin Vafadar
Nooshin Vafadar

Jury member

IRN

Our judges are all photographers themselves. We will exhibit about five works by each of them in a separate guest exhibition at Dokter Molemansstraat, the path between Oude Markt and Lod Lavkistraat, POI 14.

More on this page.

A big thank you to our jury members for their enormous effort to view and judge so many photos
Thanks to them we can uphold the artistic quality of our festival

LodM 2023 | Jury | Paadje Oude Markt - Lod Lavkistraat
LodM 2023 | Jury | Paadje Oude Markt - Lod Lavkistraat
LodM 2023 | Jury | Paadje Oude Markt - Lod Lavkistraat
LodM 2023 | Jury | Paadje Oude Markt - Lod Lavkistraat