Winners Announced: Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2025

We are delighted to announce Silvana Trevale and Gabriel Pinto as joint winners of the 2025 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.

Selected by the Photo London Curatorial Committee from a shortlist of 10 outstanding emerging photographers, the joint winners will receive a range of Nikon camera kit.

“At the heart of Nikon’s business is our mission to empower photographers to tell the world’s most important stories. Over the last six years of supporting this prestigious award alongside Photo London, we have seen story and art converge in myriad and breathtaking ways. This year’s shortlist is no different, and it remains one of our great privileges as a brand to play a part in the future of these talented creators.”

— Julian Harvie, Nikon’s Marketing Director for Northern Europe

Silvana Trevale

Represented and exhibited by Photo London 2025 exhibitors Sorondo Projects (Barcelona), Trevale’s series Alma Llanera reflects on the construction of national identity in Venezuela through the traditions of the plains, and the lived realities of its youth. Evocative, intimate and politically charged, her work speaks to the endurance of culture and the beauty found in resilience.

Gabriel Pinto

Represented by Photo London 2025 exhibitors BETA Contemporary (Barcelona), Pinto is an Afro-Venezuelan artist. In El Mampulorio, Gabriel Pinto presents a powerful photographic series based on a funerary rite of African origin practiced in parts of Venezuela. In this tradition, the death of a young child is not seen as a tragedy, but as a transition into angelic existence. The community gathers not to mourn, but to celebrate: dressing the child in festive garments, adorning the space with flowers, and offering music, dance, food, and prayer. It is a farewell rooted in joy, not sorrow.

Pinto’s work approaches this ritual with profound care and reverence. His images do not simply document; they participate. Through composed, intimate frames, he captures a worldview where death is not an end, but a transformation—where the soul survives, and the community affirms life through collective remembrance.

This series stands as a testament to the spiritual and cultural resilience of Afro-Venezuelan communities. In witnessing El Mampulorio, Pinto offers a vision of mourning that is also a celebration—one that reclaims the funeral as a space of beauty, belonging, and continuity.

Click here to learn more about the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.