The winners of the WallMag Creative Photography Awards 2026 are here — chosen from a Top 100 shortlist of India's most imaginative image-makers. Where Imagination Meets the Frame
🔗 Award Page: https://wallmag.io/awards/wallmag-creative-photography-awards-2026
- 🏆 Winners Announced: 27 July 2026
- 📅 Finalists Announced: 20 July 2026
How Were the Winners Decided?
Every entry earned a community score from the votes it received. The hundred highest-scoring creators became our finalists — and then our jury joined in. Final placement combined community votes (20%) and jury evaluation (80%), each measured against the strongest project in the award. The three creators who topped that combined score are the winners you see below. The full standings are public.
📖 Learn how our voting system works →
Meet the Top 3.
🥇 1st Place — Creative Photography
By: Souhityo Das
A photographer who treats every frame as a sentence — and the whole series as a story you can't stop reading.
Every great photo is a story waiting to be told.
🏆 Prize: The Creative Photographer of the Year 2026 title + a Cover Story in WallMag Creator Magazine, plus the shared winner benefits below.
🥈 2nd Place — The Golden Gaze ️
By: Manojit Sasmal
One boy, one river's edge, one look — and a warmth that outshines everything gold was ever meant to mean.
A boy from the edges of the river, where life is simple but never easy - yet his eyes glow with a strength richer than gold.
🏆 Prize: The Creative Photography Runner-Up 2026 title + a Featured Interview in WallMag Creator Magazine, plus the shared winner benefits below.
🥉 3rd Place — Creative series
By: Shounak Pal
Rural Bengal, reimagined — conceptual frames that find the surreal hiding inside the everyday.
This series shows a set of creative and conceptual photos from a Rural setup in Bengal.
🏆 Prize: The Second Runner-Up 2026 title + a Spotlight Q&A in WallMag Creator Magazine, plus the shared winner benefits below.
What Every Winner Receives
Every winner takes home the same core recognition: a verifiable WallMag Winner's Certificate, a hero feature across WallMag's channels, collaboration opportunities with our photography-industry partners — camera, lens, print, and creative-tools brands — and ₹5,000 in partner-brand perks. On top of that, each podium place earns its own spotlight in WallMag Creator Magazine: a Cover Story for our Creative Photographer of the Year, a Featured Interview for the Runner-Up, and a Spotlight Q&A for the Second Runner-Up.
Want to Be Next?
New WallMag Awards open regularly — across genres, for creators at every level. If your best work is sitting on your phone right now, this is where it gets seen, scored by a real community, and put in front of a jury that matters. Explore what's open: wallmag.io/awards
🎉 Congratulations to Souhityo, Manojit, and Shounak — and to every creator who put their vision forward. Every one of you made this award what it is.
