Winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards Redefine the Notion of 'iPhone Photos'
The 19th annual competition features photographers from 48 countries, most using older iPhone cameras.
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The 2026 iPhone Photography Awards, announced Wednesday, showcase stunning photos captured with iPhone cameras, anchored by this year's Grand Prix-winning night photo of a volcano, taken with an iPhone 15 Pro by Robyn Jensen.
Whenever photos taken with phones gain attention, well-meaning people trot out photographer Chase Jarvis's adage, "The best camera is the one you have with you." But that much-cited quote is often delivered with the unspoken context of, "I guess an iPhone is better than nothing at all, but the photo would have been better if you had a real camera with you."
But the photos in this year's collection never feel like compromises. Without peeping at the pixel level, you wouldn't know that nearly all of the images came from Apple's smartphones. Only a couple of them look...
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