We present the winners and finalists of the 6th Edition of the International Photography Contest, held in 2025 under the theme “Age does not define us. Our gaze does.”

This edition confirmed something the contest has defended from the very beginning: here, photography does not compete — it converses. It does not aim merely to please: it challenges, raises questions, and shifts the focus. And when we talk about longevity — a reality already reshaping routines, care, and expectations — that conversation is not a cultural ornament; it is a necessity.

The 6th edition brought together 1,138 photographers from multiple countries and cultures, reinforcing the international character of the competition. This diversity is not an ornamental detail: it reflects a genuine meeting point between sensibilities, visual traditions, and universal questions.

Renowned authors took part, as well as young photographers finding their voice; analogue perspectives and digital narratives; intimate scenes, portraits, landscapes, memory, everyday life… all connected by a common thread: looking at longevity without stereotypes. With the works added this year, CENIE now surpasses 15,000 photographs received since the contest began. It is not just a collection: it is a living archive that documents how our perception of age evolves and, at the same time, compels us to refine our gaze.

Each edition adds images that avoid easy nostalgia or fragility as the only narrative, and instead portray longevity as what it truly is: a rich, diverse, sometimes contradictory, and always deeply human experience. The 6th edition is a milestone in itself, not only because of its scale, but because of what it represents: confidence in a cultural project that brings together science, art, and social sensitivity, and that understands photography as a tool for thought. Because, ultimately, participants did not send photographs “about age”: they sent gazes. And those gazes are what make this contest remarkable.

This edition also featured an international jury composed of Isabel Muñoz, Manu Brabo, Sandra Balsells, Stéphanie Van Duin, Antonio López Díaz and José Luis Amores — six leading figures who reinforce the cultural value of the competition.

The initiative is part of the project New Long-Lived Societies, approved within the framework of the Interreg VI-A Spain–Portugal Programme (POCTEP), 2021–2027, of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).