KBr Photo Award

KBr Photo Award

The KBr Photo Award is a biennial international prize has been promoted by Fundación MAPFRE to contribute to the recognition and visibility of authors with a professional career already underway and whose work shows artistic values of special interest within the tradition of documentary photography.

The prize, which is awarded to unpublished projects, aims to distinguish and promote the career of the winner by means of a cash prize (€25,000), the exhibition of the project in the Foundation’s two galleries (KBr in Barcelona and Recoletos 23 in Madrid) and the publication of the respective catalogue. 

Created in 2021, the KBr Photo Award’s first three editions have gone to Anastasia Samoylova (2021), Felipe Romero Beltrán (2023) and Gloria Oyarzábal (2025).
Anastasia Samoylova
© Gloria Oyarzábal.

Year 2025

Gloria Oyarzábal has won the third edition of the KBr Photo Award for her project Appunti per un’Orestíade africana_una democracia en fatiga II.

Proyecto Bravo
© Felipe Romero Beltrán.

Year 2023

Felipe Romero Beltrán winner of the II Edition of KBr Photo Award with his project Bravo.

Anastasia Samoylova

© Anastasia Samoylova.

Year 2021

Anastasia Samoylova, winner of the first edition of the KBr Photo Award with her project Image Cities.