A landscape does not need color to make an impression. In black and white, mountains become bold shapes, snow turns into open fields of light, and forests can look almost graphic. The MonoVisions Awards 2026 Landscapes category brings together 50 photographs that use this limited palette to reveal nature in unexpected ways.
Among them, Eric Violette's "Unreal Mountains" stands out as the winning series, transforming the flat farmland of France's Beauce plain into what reads as a distant mountain range. Yevhen Samuchenko's "Winter Drawings" follows with quiet, snow-covered views of the Carpathian Mountains, while Yoong Wah Alex Wong's "The Aesthetics of Climate Change" turns the frozen surface of Lake Baikal into a study of texture and light.
Scroll through all 50 photographs from the MonoVisions Awards 2026 Landscapes category below and see how far photographers can take the natural world in monochrome.
