Wellcome Photography Prize 2025
Exhibition at the Francis Crick Institute from 17 July to 18 October 2025.
Free entry
The Wellcome Photography Prize brings together stories of health, science and human experience. This exhibition showcases the most thought-provoking entries, from captivating medical imaging to stories of the alarming health impacts of climate change.
With images submitted from over 100 countries, our judging panel has selected the top 25 entries across three categories: Striking Solo Photography, The Marvels of Scientific and Medical Imaging and a Storytelling Series. Created using a range of techniques from drones to microscopes, you don’t need to have expertise in photography or science to appreciate them. Only a passion for great imagery and a fascination for health and human connection.
The exhibition also features images from ‘Things We Left Unseen’. A series by young, aspiring photographers documenting the personal experiences of health challenges being faced by local communities in South Africa.
The Wellcome Photography Prize exhibition is running for a limited time only. Discover whole other perspectives on health, science, and human experience by planning your visit today.
Exhibition highlights
This is the inner structure of Trypanosoma cruzi, or T. cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a tropical illness transmitted by biting insects or contaminated food. Over time, it can cause serious heart conditions and digestive issues, especially if left untreated. Chagas disproportionately impacts low-income and rural populations in the Americas, and is considered to be an under-studied disease. Image technique: False-coloured cryo-scanning electron microscopy. Scale: Cell diameter is approximately 2.5 micrometres.
Ingrid Augusto, Kildare Rocha de Miranda, and Vânia da Silva Vieira / Wellcome Photography Prize 2025
Plan your visit
Dates
17 July - 18 October 2025
Wednesday 10:00 – 20:00
Thursday – Saturday 10:00 – 16:00
Sunday – Tuesday closed
Free entry - no need to book
It takes around 30 minutes to go through the full exhibition.
Location
The Francis Crick Institute
1 Midland Road
London, NW1 1AT
Contact
Content note
Two text panels in the exhibition make reference to baby loss and domestic abuse.
When you're there
You can purchase sandwiches, snacks and hot and cold drinks in the café. You can also bring your own food and drink. There are accessible toilet facilities and water fountains in the exhibition space. There is seating of various heights in the exhibition, and level access through the whole gallery.
It's a family friendly space. Although the content in our exhibition is designed for ages 12+, we welcome all ages to the gallery. There are playmats, high-chairs, games and books and a great café. It's a breastfeeding-friendly space.
Access resources will include an easy read guide, large print guides, audio descriptions and a BSL introduction.