These winning photos from the Dog Photography Award 2024 are the perfect doomscrolling antidote

Alex Baker

Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

If you need a dose of extreme cuteness today, then check out the winning images from the Dog Photography Awards 2024. The contest showcases the best images each year of man’s best friend and is split into five categories, with 2024 adding a new Documentary section.

This year’s winners include action shots, tender moments, and some striking portraits that encapsulate the love we have for our dogs. If nothing else, they will get your tail wagging! Here are the winning images:

Action

First place: Regine Jensen

“Moving in Time”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

Second Place: Anastasia Vetkovskaya

“Burst of energy”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

Third Place: Anne-Laurie Léger

“Floating”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
Maze was trotting and I was lucky enough to have the perfect timing for this shot. She’s just floating and her paws touching make it exquisite.

Documentary

First Place: John Fabiano

“Greenlandic Flat Tire”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
This photo was taken while traveling through a blizzard from Siorapaluk, the northernmost indigenous village in the world, to Qaanaaq, Greenland. We did not have a GPS, cell service, or the ability to communicate more than a few words in English. Our protection if we were to run into a polar bear was a rifle from 1940 and the fight within our 13 Greenlandic Huskies. We had to stop so my guide, Ilannguaq, could untangle the sled ropes. The dogs watched on and patiently waited until they could get back to doing their favorite thing in the world – running.

Second Place: An Di Prima

“Safe”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
This is Santos, a podenco rescued by Hope For Podencos. I visited them in Albacete, Spain, as part of my book project on Podencos,
Podencos are a horribly abused hunting dog breed in Spain. Every year, after the hunting season ends, thousands get dumped, and a few lucky ones are saved by rescue organisations such as Hope For Podencos. With my photography, I try to help as much as I can: Together, we are stronger!

Third Place: Angela Sulser

“Follow your origin”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
German Wirehaired Pointer bitch Lemon during a hunting test exercise. (duck retrieve)

Dogs & People

First place: Jane Thomson

“The Princess & the Pea”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
I wanted to bring children’s fairy tale stories to life with my studio portraiture for the BC Children’s Hospital Pet Therapy program calendar for 2025. Celebrating the strength of these incredibly brave young hospital patients along with with the beautiful dogs enrolled in the pet therapy program was the most enriching project I have ever worked on.

Second Place: Ida Levin

“Growing older together day by day, my dog is my reason to stay”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
This is Rune 90 years old and his dog Hajen. Rune is a man with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to his long work at a concrete factory, and his only happiness in life is his dog Hajen. If he loose Hajen he will probably die in some few days, since he will loose all meaning of live and give everything up. Their bond is so strong, and they really love each other.

Third Place: Moa Näslund

“Silent Connection”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

Portrait

First Place: Rhea Nellen

“Ready for Takeoff”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
Every muscle in white shepherd ‘Kooki’ is ready! Any second now he’s going to jump.
At first we let Kooki just stand in front of the museum but he wanted to play. So his dogmum threw his frisbee into the air and I managed to caputre this pose.

Second Place: Lea Styger

“Hunted Architecture”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
Lucerne Hound Zora sneaked through the Maurerhalle in Basel as if she were hunting, typical of her breed.

Third Place: Sophia Hutchinson

“Hot off the Press”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos
This photo was taken in Leadenhall Market, a historic London landmark dating back to the 14th century, where it once thrived as a center for trading meat, poultry, and game. The Wirehaired Vizsla, known for its role as a hunting dog, finds its place amid the market’s warm glow and rain-soaked cobblestones – reflecting the heritage of the breed and the market’s rich past.

Studio

First Place: Valeria Barbara Barriera Cassina

“Metamorfosis canina”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

Second Place: Donna Victor

“Mila”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

Third Place: Regine Jensen

“I see you”

Dog Photography Award 2024 winning photos

All of the winning photographs and Honorable Mentions can be viewed on the Dog Photography Awards website.


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Alex Baker

Alex Baker

Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

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3 responses to “These winning photos from the Dog Photography Award 2024 are the perfect doomscrolling antidote”

  1. Kathy Delk Avatar
    Kathy Delk

    Why did you put soooo much writing over the pics. I wanted to see the dogs

    1. Tamara Avatar
      Tamara

      That’s exactly what I want to know! I’m sure the photos are amazing, but who would know with writing all over them!

  2. Nan MacGinnis Avatar
    Nan MacGinnis

    lovely but I couldn’t see some of the photos because of the overlaying text