12 Of The Most Beautiful Shots, As Selected By The Dog Photographer Of The Year 2022 Awards

Winners of the Dog Photography Awards received prizes of up to €2,000 in cash (€500 for each category) as well as recognition from top media and newspapers. For this year's edition, we received about 1400 applications from 50 different countries!

We are amazed by the quality of the work submitted and how different the winning images are. We are also happy about their originality, coming with the wonderful stories behind them, which makes the competition even more interesting also for us, judges and creators of the competition, discovering new talented photographers around the world.

Our 2022 jury was composed of six different renowned dog photographers: me, Audrey Bellot, - a 25-year-old dog photographer from France, Claudio Piccoli - a professional dog photographer from Italy, Iza Łysoń - a 25-year-old photographer and an ambassador for 500px photography website, Heike Willers - dog photographer based in Germany, Travis Patenaude - a studio dog photographer based in the United States and Anne Geier - a dog photographer from Austria.

Our criteria for choosing the winners were the following for this 2022 edition: a dog's body language refers to the expression of the dog and its posture. Settings refer to the sharpness of the subject, the overall exposure and the lightning used for studio images. Composition is about colors, light, layers, story and overall impact of the image. Artistic choices are related to the chosen idea and its execution, its difficulty of realization and its rarity. Editing refers to the final look of the image and the techniques that seem to be used. We can detect problems in the editing such as masks, color banding, unrealistic flares, overlays, etc.