Epson announces winners of 2025 Epson International Pano Awards

Last Fireworks

The winners of the 2025 and now 16th Epson International Pano awards have been announced and amongst an abundance of ultra-wide panoramas, the overall winner of the 2025 Open Photographer of the Year and the Nature/Landscape category is Alessandro Cantarelli from Italy for his entries Last Fireworks, Jackpot and Mann.

Describing Last Fireworks Cantarelli said, “As the sun went down, the sky literally exploded. Layer after layer of clouds lit up, painting the desert with fire and gold. Using my Sony A7 IV with a fisheye lens on a tripod, I captured a full multi-exposure sequence at f/8 and ISO 100, rotating carefully around the nodal point to create a seamless 360° panorama”.

Cantarelli is an Italian fine-art landscape photographer known worldwide for his pioneering work in extreme panoramic landscapes. Through years of experimentation and fieldwork, he developed a unique panoramic technique capable of merging multiple perspectives into a single immersive vision

Describing Mann, a 270° panorama captured in the Italian Dolomites, Cantarelli says, “For years I’ve been fascinated by the way lunar light reveals every texture of the snow, every pattern shaped by the wind. To bring this vision to life, I worked through the night at -15°C, using a Sony A6600 with a fisheye lens at 10mm, f/5.6, 10 seconds, ISO 1250, building a 270° panorama in the freezing wind”.

The Epson International Pano Awards has grown and continues to be the largest global competition for panoramic photography as it showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide.

As always, entrants this year competed for thousands of dollars in cash and hardware prizes from main sponsors Epson Australia and Epson Southeast Asia.

Other key awards include The Epson Digital Art Prize which is decided by the executive team at Epson Australia from the top 50 entries in the Open competition. In addition to their creativity, these entries must show excellence in digital post processing as well as exceptional photographic technique.

The winner of The Epson Digital Art Prize 2025 was Daniel Viñé from Spain who commented on his image saying, “In this coastal village of Vietnam, survival is woven in silence. These women, working in morning shade and salt-laden air, are the unseen guardians of sustenance. The nets they mend are not mere tools, but lifelines binding sea and community together.”

Epson Australia MD, Craig Heckenberg, said, “The Pano Awards entries are always exceptional and this year the creativity has been taken to the next level. It’s great to see so many more wide and ultra-wide panoramic shots this year, a format close to our hearts, as they are able to be truly and properly represented by Epson wide-format photo printers. The Pano awards entrants are an inspiration for all photographers of all skill levels. At Epson we pride ourselves on embodying innovation and creativity, hence why we continue to support and sponsor these unique awards”.

Daniel Viñé also took out the RAW Planet Award for Cathedral of Shadows, Hanksville, Utah which he describes as, “Witnessing a fleeting alignment of light and form revealing the sun blazing on one side, the vast shadow stretching on the other and the raw, timeless silence of Utah in between”.

The Pano Awards Southeast Asia Open Photographer of the Year 2025 winner

As Heckenberg mentioned this year’s entries saw a prevalence of ultra-wide panoramas, led by the overall winner Alessandro Cantarelli, who has many such images in the top 50.

Southeast Asia also continued to be very well represented following the addition of Epson Singapore as joint major sponsor in 2024, with the award for The Pano Awards Southeast Asia Open Photographer of the Year 2025 going to William Chua from Singapore.

The Amateur Photographer of the Year First place Nature/Landscape category went to Kevin Nyun, USA for his entries entitled The Altiplano Landscape, Frozen and Remnants.