Open House Festival 2025 Photography Competition
Colour Match London with V&CO
Introducing the winners of the Open House Festival Photography Competition 2025…
This year, we teamed up with V&CO to celebrate the theme Colour Match London. We invited you to capture the colours of the capital through Festival events and architecture, from bold and bright to subtle and unexpected. The first prize was a £250 voucher to spend on V&CO paint and a pot of paint mixed to match their winning colour.
Here’s a gallery of the winners, plus some of our favourite highly-commended entries.
Thank you so much to everyone who took part.
WINNERS
WINNERS
1st Place — Atonal wash of white. Photo: Rola Adefarasin
2nd Place — Peek Into Green Palatial Gardens. Photo: Kalpesh Bulsara
3rd Place — Earthen Glow. Photo: Andrew McKee
4th Place — Electric London. Photo: Ugur Vidinligil
HIGHLY COMMENDED
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Tangerine Dream. Photo: Kim Taylor
Evergreen. Photo: Maximilian Yang
Catford Crimson. Photo: Emily Barron
Soaring Blue. Photo: Zijian Wei
Hazy Shade of Autumn. Photo: Caroline Gannon
Sunlit Fern. Photo: Hi Ming Michael Chiang
Golden Buzzing. Photo: Jiazhen Cai
Car Park Copper. Photo: Simon Piesse
Light Between Eras: Borough Brick Meets Cerulean Dream. Photo: Tzu-Jou Hsiao
Orange in the House. Photo: Yuen Yee Cheng
Ismaili Blue. Photo: Guy Shackle
Bauhaus White. Photo: William Wong
Amber on Terracotta. Photo: Lingxi Li
Golden Scales. Photo: Liz Brinklow
St Pancras Black Steel Shadows and Reflections. Photo: Jake Vaughan Ireland
Lavender Mist. Photo: Hi Ming Michael Chiang
London Stone White. Photo: Katherine Liao
Millenium Mud. Photo: Michael Wheeler
Ravensbourne Purple. Photo: William Wong
Brutal Beige. Photo: Joanne Cole
Pale Plank. Photo: Lu Bai
Warm yellow ceiling glow. Photo: Kalpesh Bulsara
Green Kingsland Basin. Photo: Anna Marsden
St Anne's church Kew stain glass. Photo: Natalia Bobrova
Brewery Aged Green. Photo: Sharon Rapose
Library Leather Brown. Photo: Emily Morgan
Fiery Dusk. Photo: Tracy George
High Pink and Dry Green. Photo: Simon Piesse
Red Bridge points to ballet heaven. Photo: Helen Kerslake
Hounslow Old Blood Red. Photo: Mary Barlow
Ivory Dream. Photo: Nadia Savvopoulou
St Pancras Sandstone Red, Forest Green. Photo: Jake Vaughan Ireland
Scarlet Obsidian. Photo: Andrew McKee
Gothic Shadow in Pewter Light. Photo: Lingxi Li
Terracotta Glow. Photo: Hi Ming Michael Chiang
A study in Scarlet. Photo: Liz Brinklow
St Pancras Cinnamon. Photo: Louise Thwaite
Millennium Taupe. Photo: Michael Wheeler
Poplar Red. Photo: Peter Dawson
Restoration and a slash of red. Photo: Richard Cross
Rising Red. Photo: Paul Vincent
Verdant Vain (bookend marble detail). Photo: Lu Bai
Wardian’s Prime Meridian (Greenwich). Photo: Yaseen Docrat
Linnean Olive. Photo: John De la Cruz
Yellow Bench, Blue Sky. Photo: Gautier Houel
Blue up there! Photo: Juli Bon
Bartholomew Goldenhue. Photo: Carolyn Jenkinson
Black becomes blue. Photo: Mike Standing
Autumnal Baroque. Photo: Andrew Warrender
Peckham Clay. Photo: Natalie Arestis
Printmaker's Green. Photo: Maria Leeke
Thamesmead Grey. Photo: Mark Samuels
New Town Blue. Photo: Ros Mitton
Layers of Green. Photo: James Munro
Boston Manor ‘Cygnet-Ure’ brown. Photo: Marion Ball
Royal Railway Red. Photo: Taffy St Bean