Professional Photographers of America is excited to announce the photographers for Team USA who will be competing in the World Photographic Cup. Teams from 32 countries will be participating in the 2025 World Photographic Cup. Historically, the aim of the competition is to unite photographers in the spirit of friendship and cooperation.

Each country is represented by one team chosen by a national association of professional photographers. Teams pick their own photographers and images to enter. They may submit up to three images in each of the ten categories: Commercial, Digital Art,Illustrative Portrait, Landscape, Natural Portrait, Reportage, Sports, Wedding Documentary, Wedding Open, Wildlife. Teams may choose to enter the images of a single photographer in multiple categories, but no single photographer may have multiple images entered into a single category. Click here to see Team USA's images!

Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals are awarded to the individual creator in each category for first, second, and third place. Teams are awarded points based on an aggregate score of the top ten images in all categories, and the World Photographic Cup is awarded to the national team that receives the highest overall score. World Photographic Cup winners will be named at the WPC Awards Ceremony in Ecuador on March 20, 2025. If you can’t make it to Ecuador, you can stream it LIVE.

Watch the World Photographic Cup Finalist and Best of Nation Announcement on Tuesday, December 17 at 4 pm ET! Cheer on Team USA and tune in over on WPC's YouTube channel.

Here’s a look at the 2025 Team USA photographers:

Commercial 

Travis Baranczyk
Sabrina Casas. M.Photog., CPP
Ben Shirk, M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr.

Digital Art

Ben Shirk, M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr.
Kenzie Hunter, M.Photog.M.Artist.
Richard Sturdevant. M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr.

Illustrative Portrait 

Ben Shirk, M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr. (Finalist)
Amber Damour, M.Photog.Cr. (Finalist)
Richard Sturdevant. M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr. (Finalist)

Landscape 

Kenneth Childress, M.Photog., CPP (Finalist)
David Soldano, M.Photog. (Finalist)
Lisa Asp, M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr., CPP

Natural Portrait 

Andrew Bowen, M.Photog., CPP (Finalist)
Heidi Margocsy
Amber Damour, M.Photog.Cr.

Reportage

John Gress, M.Photog.Cr., CPP (Finalist & Best of Nation)
John Gayler, M.Photog., CPP (Finalist)
Thea Martin, M.Photog.

Sports

Ellen Nelson, M.Photog., CPP (Finalist)
Sherry Bluemel, M.Photog.
Johnathan Fusco, M.Photog.M.Wed.Photog.

Wedding Documentary

Javon Longieliere, M.Photog.Cr., CPP (Finalist)
Oona Breyer
Kathleen Gemma

Wedding Open

Mario Munoz, M.Photog.M.Wed.Photog.Cr. (Finalist)
Marceliano Munoz, M.Photog.M.Wed.Photog.Cr.
Chris Keeley, M.Photog.M.Wed.Photog.

Wildlife

Portia Shao, M.Photog.M.Artist., CPP (Finalist)
Kevin Dooley, M.Photog.Cr.
Ellen Zangla, M.Photog., CPP

A huge congratulations to these photographers on their incredible achievement, go Team USA!