Huawei announced the winners of the XMAGE Awards 2026 mobile photography contest in Paris. The jury selected three main prize winners from a pool of 820,000 submissions, while 100 finalists were chosen for the final exhibition at the Grand Palais.
The top winners include Ali Abdul Hamid Al-Arbash, who captured Parisian life with a Huawei P60 Pro, Mai Shunxi for the portrait work 'Fleeting Encounter', and Wan Ben for the black-and-white composition 'Gaze Through Time and Space'.
Each of the three main winners will receive a creative grant of $10,000. Additionally, the 97 other photographers included in the XMAGE 100 list will be awarded $1,500 each, with all amounts subject to taxes.
The exhibition titled 'A Life-Affirming View of the World' was organized in partnership with the Paris Photo fair. It features three thematic zones and a retrospective section documenting the ten-year history of the competition.
The event follows the 2025 edition of the contest, which received 743,000 entries from 78 countries and regions. The current exhibition at the Grand Palais is scheduled to run from November 12 to November 15.
