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Top 20 Storytellers of the Year 2022

A Family Story Award is given to the very best series of 15 – 20 images, all of a single family – and winning one is incredibly difficult! A photographer needs to demonstrate a world-class level of creativity, storytelling and consistency, across all those images, and our judges typically award just the top few percent of submissions. Winning a single Story is an achievement in itself; to have won multiple Stories within the same year – as all these photographers have done – is truly incredible.

Special congratulations to our joint Storytellers of the Year: Els Korsten, Kristof Claeys, and Rebecca Walters, who all won 5 Family Story Awards each. You can see some of their winning Stories above.

You can also view our Top 100 Photographers Worldwide, and we also have Top 10 rankings for the following countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, and the USA.

*Ranking is determined by overall number of Awards won in 2022; in the case of a tie, the photographer who won the most Family Story Awards ranks higher.

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=#1. Els Korsten

5 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#1. Kristof Claeys

5 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#1. Rebecca Walters

5 Family Story Awards in 2022

UK

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=#4. Sabine Doppelhofer

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

Austria

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=#4. Marisa Martins

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

Portugal

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=#4. Agata Szymanowicz

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

UK

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=#4. Menino Conhece Menina

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

Portugal

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=#4. Elke Van Rulo

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#4. Ang Waterton

4 Family Story Awards in 2022

Canada

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=#10. Louise van den Broek

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#10. Linda Bouritius-Colenbrander

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#10. Theo Manusaride

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#10. Tobias Löhr

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Germany

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=#10. Simona Dietiker

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Switzerland

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=#10. Yvonne Glaser

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#10. Karolina Horner

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Austria

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=#10. Sophie Callewaert

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#10. Christophe De Mulder

3 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#19. Kirsten Bethmann

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

USA

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=#19. Moira La Plante

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

USA

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=#19. Laura Beth Davidson

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

USA

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=#19. Ana Backhaus

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

United Arab Emirates

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=#19. Evelien Van Den Bossche

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#19. Joosje Janssen

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Netherlands

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=#19. Julia Völzow

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Germany

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=#19. Katrin Küllenberg

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Germany

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=#19. Olivier Bolte

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

France

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=#19. Hilde Hoebers

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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=#19. Julia Rose-Greim

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Germany

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=#19. Nina Gebke

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Germany

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=#19. Didier Bunkens

2 Family Story Awards in 2022

Belgium

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