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THE 21st LUCIE AWARDS add
ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVING IMAGE, SPORTS, and
VISIONARY AWARD for 2025
LUCIE TECHNICAL AWARDS CONFERRED
LIVE, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2025 at 6 PM, CET
FOR THE FIRST TIME in OSTUNI, ITALY
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MEDIA KIT AVAILABLE HERE
Media Contact: sberger@luciefoundation.org
March 28, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA) - This year, the Lucie Awards is proud to add the new category of Achievement in Moving Image. Justine Evans is the recipient of this honor for her body of work. Nino Migliori will receive the Visionary Award, and Peter Robinson will be honored for his Achievement in Sports Photography.
The prestigious Lucie Awards gala will be held in Ostuni, Italy, for the first time in its history. Once again, we will celebrate photography with a stellar lineup of deserving honorees. The Impact Award recipient will be announced at a later date. The ceremony will be held at the Palazzo Municipale, Ostuni's town hall, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Lucie Foundation is scheduling related events and celebrations in Ostuni from June 19-22, details of which will be announced soon. Tickets are available here.
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Justine Evans, photo by Nick Turner Photography
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Moving Image Award to go to Justine Evans
Justine Evans, a British cinematographer and wildlife filmmaker, will receive the first-ever Lucie Moving Image award. Known for her work on productions for the BBC, Disney/National Geographic, and Netflix, Evans will be honored for her vision and excellence in her creative endeavors.
Justine is a well-known wildlife cinematographer and filmmaker whose career has spanned over three decades. Her work can be seen on many landmark BBC, National Geographic, Disney, and Netflix productions such as Planet Earth 1, 2, and 3 (BBC), Queens (Disney+), Seven Worlds (BBC), Dynasties (BBC), Night On Earth (Netflix) to name just a few.
She has been seen in front of the camera for the popular BBC Expedition series and many ‘behind the scenes’ segments of major wildlife documentaries. She is primarily a long lens cinematographer specialising in detailed animal behaviour and teasing out strong stories. She has worked extensively in the tropics and is very experienced at filming from height, especially in the tropical forest canopy, and she is also well known for her iconic night filming, often of never seen before animal behaviour.
Justine also mentors less experienced filmmakers making their way into the industry and has an active role with the UK’s National Film and Television School, mentoring students on the Science and Natural History MA course.
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Nino Migliori by © Antonella Minzoni
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Visionary Award to go to Nino Migliori
Since 1948, Nino Migliori has been developing some of the most well-articulated and interesting research in European image culture.
From the very beginning of his career, he produced neorealist sequence-narration photographs, as well as original and new experimentations in various materials. Migliori created a body of work linked to the outstanding stylistic manner of that period, Neorealism: a vision of reality based on the supremacy of popular culture with influences of regionalism.
His off-camera works have no comparison within the boundaries of the photography world. We can understand them when they are compared with the most advanced side of the informal European style, often conceived earlier than the most famous paintings. His research in the subsequent years includes other materials and techniques such as Polaroids and bleachings.
At the end of the sixties, Migliori’s work took on many conceptual aspects, a trend that prevailed in the following years.
Experimenter, sensitive explorer, and alternative thinker, his production has always been characterized by great visionary ability, which he infused in his original and brand-new work. New scenarios and seductions occur in his work, where the project becomes compositions, explored territory, and a point of critical reflection. A reflection on the use of photography, on its evidence through the discovery of renewed gestures and contaminations. He is the ideal author to communicate the ways photography is a document that assumes the values and content of art and culture.
Today, we consider Migliori a true architect of vision. Each of his productions is the result of a precise project on the power of vision, a subject that has characterized all his work throughout his career. His works are held in important private and public collections, among them Mambo, in Bologna; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, in Torino; CSAC, in Parma; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Pecci, in Prato; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, in Roma; Calcografia Nazionale, also in Roma; MNAC in Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; Bibliothèque National in Parigi; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; Musée Reattu in Arles; SFMOMA in San Francisco, and others.
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Peter Robinson, photo by Natsuhi Ochi
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Achievement in Sports awarded to Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson MA ( RCA ) was born in February 1944 and educated at Leicester College of Art and The Royal College of Art. During his long career as a documentary photographer, he also shot some sports events. These include 13 World Cups and 10 Olympic Games, not to mention the hundreds of football matches in England and Europe in the 60s & 70s. Many of those early images were published in Football League Review, which sold for one shilling (5p). Later, he worked for more expensive magazines, such as ‘ONZE’ in Paris, and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in New York.
His football images from 102 countries have been featured in more than 50 books, thousands of magazines, and liberally sampled by football social media. His 2005 monograph 'Football Days' is a best-selling illustrated book of football and is regarded as a definitive work on the subject. The follow-up book ‘1966 Uncovered‘ - a visual record of the 1966 World Cup - was completed in 2006.
Both were awarded ‘Illustrated Sports Book of the Year’.
FIFA’s Official Photographer for over two decades in 2015, Peter was appointed the photography consultant to THE FIFA MUSEUM in Zurich. In April 2022, an article in The Athletic / New York Times sports journalism website declared he was “arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer.“
Institutions that have his work in their collections include Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, Germany, Museo Historico Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and The National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
Recently, his work was showcased at Xposure, the leading global photography festival in Sharjah, UAE (February 2025. RED DOT, a workshop producing fine art prints from his photo archives, will be operating beginning in July 2025.
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Two LUCIE TECHNICAL AWARDS will be presented: Best Camera and Achievement in Innovation
The Lucie Technical Awards honor and recognize the companies and organizations that, each year, contribute to the advancement of photographic technology. These awards shine a spotlight on the innovations and technical breakthroughs that shape the way imagery is captured, processed, and displayed. By acknowledging these achievements from organizations large and small, the awards aim to encourage further advancements in the field and the continued evolution of the tools behind the photograph. The Lucie Technical Awards is a program of the Lucie Foundation, and a sister program of The Lucie Awards.
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Below is the full list of Lucie Honorees for 2025:
Massimo Vitali will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award
Adger Cowans for Achievement in Fine Art
Martin Schoeller for Achievement in Portraiture
Marco Glaviano for Achievement in Fashion
Paolo Pellegrin for Achievement in Photojournalism
Cristina García Rodero for Achievement in Documentary
Hélène Binet for Achievement in ArchitecturePeter Robinson for Achievement in Sports
Nino Migliori will receive the Visionary Award
Justine Evans will receive the Moving Image Award
James Balog will receive the Humanitarian Award
CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia - will receive the Spotlight Award
The Impact Award will be announced closer to the Awards ceremony. This award is given to a photographer whose image or body of work has created a difference in a given year.
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Massimo Vitali, photo credit Settimio Benedusi
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Adger Cowans, photo credit © Gail Nogle
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Peter Robinson, Photo by Natsuhi Ochi
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Martin Schoeller, self portrait
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Marco Glaviano, by Giovanni Gastel
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Paolo Pellegrin, self portrait
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Nino Migliori photo by
© Antonella Minzoni
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Hélène Binet,
photo by Jasmine Bruno
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Justine Evans, photo by Nick Turner Photography
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CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia,
photo by ©Andrea Guermani
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James Balog, photo by Greg Gorman
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Cristina García Rodero, self portrait
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“The Lucie Awards honor the most accomplished in the field. We are proud to confer the Lucie Award on eleven accomplished photographers and one organization for their extraordinary work, with one more award to be announced in a few months. Massimo Vitali is the recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. Later, we will announce the recipient of this year’s Lucie Impact Award, to acknowledge the impact of a photograph or a body of work in a given year. We are thrilled to celebrate these extraordinary careers on June 21, at the Palazzo Municipale, in Ostuni, Italy,” said Hossein Farmani, Founder of The Lucie Awards.
Additionally, the Lucie Awards honor the year’s best photographic achievements in the industry by presenting several Support Category Awards. Nominations are now open; please click here. These awards often include Book Publisher of the Year, Photo Program of the Year, and Photo Curator of the Year, among others. The Support Category Awards acknowledge the individuals and institutions that play a critical role in crafting and promoting the photographic image. The nominees will be announced, and winners will be revealed live at the awards in June. We will also bestow two Lucie Technical Awards at this time: the Best Camera and Achievements in Innovation.
The Lucie Awards is the signature program of Lucie Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization. Tickets will go on sale later this spring.
About Lucie Foundation - Lucie Foundation’s mission is to honor master photographers, recognize current photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide. The foundation presents year-round programming to support emerging photographers through the Lucie Scholarship Program and master photographers through The Lucie Awards. Other programs include The Lucie Technical Awards, The Lucie Photo Book Prize, exhibitions, talks, and workshops at the House of Lucie Galleries.
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Lucie Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation, thanks the municipality of Ostuni, Italy. www.luciefoundation.org
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