Featured above, 2024 winning photos taken by (left to right) Taylor Mason, Valerie Ramshur and Zai.
Check out the ‘Top 50’ Gallery for more from 2024.
The Brian Lehrer Show - The Best Photo Sitting on Your Phone: 2025 Edition
WNYC x Photoville
Every year, The Brian Lehrer Show teams up with the Photoville team to present listeners with this challenge:
What’s the best photo sitting on your phone?
Back for its 6th edition, The Brian Lehrer Show is asking listeners and our photo community to share with us the best, most beautiful, most interesting, hilarious, and/or spectacular photo you took this year by December 11, 2025 at 11:59PM ET!
But! We have one rule: No babies and no pets (sorry, it’s just too easy!) Photoville, along with our special guest judge, photographer David Gonzalez, will help to pick our favorites. Winners get bragging rights and a chance to talk about their picture on the air.
Last year, you submitted over 700 photos – and in 2025 you topped that with more than 800 entries! Photoville, along with our special guest judge, photographer and photo editor David Gonzalez, picked the top photos. Then Brian and the team joined in to help select three winners to present their photos live on the air during the show on December 11th.
Previous guest judges include: Janette Beckman (2020), Michele Agins (2021), Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (2022), Meryl Meisler (2023) and Edwin Pagan (2024)!
