Competitions

Edgar Su’s image ‘Carlos’ shadow hits a ball’ has been announced as the overall winner of the record-breaking, Canon-sponsored 2026 World Sports Photography Awards competition.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale has presented the 2025 GradFoto award of AU$1000 to Minh An Pham from RMIT University for his series Rồi một ngày con sẽ mất – Someday I will lose you.

Entries to the annual Sony World Photography Awards competition will close in early January for three of the main competitions.

Angela Farnsworth has been named the inaugural winner of the BirdLife Photographer of the Year for her photograph of a Brush-turkey preening its feathers.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale is seeking entries for GradFoto 2025, which celebrates the works of graduating students from selected institutions in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

BirdLife Australia and BirdLife Photography have announced the finalists of this year’s competition, which attracted thousands of entries from some of Australia’s best bird photographers.

The LOBA Women Grant, a new category of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) has been introduced to provide project funding for a project concept by a female photographer.

Judges have chosen “Shakul’s Eyes” by Marijn Fidder of Uganda as the Professional Photo of the Year, and “Makalika and her son post-surgery,” by Darren James in Samoa, as the Amateur Photo of the Year.