{"id":246889,"date":"2025-09-22T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:08:20","slug":"the-spotlight-awards-celebrates-the-very-best-of-commercial-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246889\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spotlight Awards Celebrates the Very Best of Commercial Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Grand prize winner and Sport winner. Photo by Todd Antony. United Kingdom. <\/p>\n

The 15 winners of the 2025 Spotlight Awards have been announced, a competition that celebrates commercial photography and its practitioners. <\/p>\n

UK-based photographer Todd Antony claimed the Grand Prize for his work in the Sport category. Antony traveled to the country of Tajikistan to photograph \u201cBuzkashi\u201d or \u201cgoat-pulling,\u201d which is a centuries-old Central Asian sport often compared to polo. <\/p>\n

But while polo may bring up images of the English landed gentry galloping around a pristine playing field, Buzkashi players must hold on to a headless goat carcass and try to carry it over a line. <\/p>\n

\u201cFierce chapandaz battle for control in chaotic scenes that spill into the crowd, matches lasting for hours until one rider drags the goat across a dirt goal line. Once a nomadic pastime, it remains a dramatic highlight of festivals and weddings today,\u201d says Antony. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Food and Drink Winner. Photo by Jeremy Baile. United Kingdom. \"A<\/a>Emering Talent Winner. Photo by Victor Boccard. France.
\n \"A<\/a>Kids Winner. Photo by Si Cox. United Kingdom. \"A<\/a>Corporate and Industrial Winner. Photo by Alex Wallace. New Zealand. \"Two<\/a>Still Life Winner. Photo by Sven-Anton. United States. \"A<\/a>AI Image Developing and Creating Winner. Photo by Vilka (Somm_Bird). Australia. \"A<\/a>Advertising Winner. Photo by Delaney McQuown. United States. \"A<\/a>Travel, Documentary, and Landscape Winner. Photo by Connor Langford. United Kingdom. \"A<\/a>Architecture and Interiors Winner. Photo by D\u00e1maso Avila. Spain.
\n \"Two<\/a>People and Lifestyle Winner. Photo by Dan Hack. United Kingdom. \"A<\/a>Fashion Winner. Photo by Stefan Groepper. Germany. \"A<\/a>Cars Winner. Photo by Bam. Germany. \"An<\/a>Portraiture and Celebrity Winner. Photo by Hanna Kantor. Poland. \"A<\/a>Beauty Winner. Photo by Leo Rohrsetzer. Germany. <\/p>\n

Now in its eighth edition, the Spotlight Awards focus on advertising photography. This unique event targets commercial photography and has a panel of more than 50 judges composed exclusively of industry experts and potential clients. <\/p>\n

According to the competition\u2019s organizers, Production Paradise, some of the top creatives from the most influential brands, ad agencies, and magazines in the world took the time to pick out the best of the Spotlight Awards talents from thousands of entries. <\/p>\n

For more, head to the Spotlight Awards website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand prize winner and Sport winner. Photo by Todd Antony. United Kingdom. The 15 winners of the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[131213,648,1032,28062,42378,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-246889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-advertisingphotography","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-commercialphotographer","12":"tag-commercialphotography","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115249290497294243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}