After Rethinking Nature (2021) and Rethinking Identity (2023), the curatorial team of EMOP has chosen the theme of Rethinking Photography for its 2025 edition. Among a pool of artistic positions proposed and discussed by the curators of the EMOP network within the framework of this theme, the following five artists, all of whom live and work in Europe, have been nominated for the EMOP Arendt Award 2025: Sylvie Bonnot (Paris), Marta Djourina (Berlin), Raisan Hameed (Leipzig), Simon Lehner (Vienna), and Paulo Simão (Lisbon).

A publication, including monographic booklets, is published on this occasion by Café Crème asbl.

Members of the jury for this 7th edition were : Paul di Felice, President of EMOP, Rui Prata (Imago Lisboa), Delphine Dumont (Hangar, PhotoBrussels), Mona Schubert (Foto Arsenal, FotoWien), and Maren Lübbke Tidow (EMOP Berlin).