Images from the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition will be on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney until 13 October.

Images from the exhibition, clockwise from left: Samuel Markham (overall winner), Matty Smith (winner, Animals in Nature category), Tom Owen Edmunds (winner Urban Animals category) and Coco Moens (‘Caught in the Act’, entry in Junior category).

This free exhibition, produced by the South Australian Museum, shines a light on the astonishing array of flora, fauna and landscapes found across Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea. It features more than 95 exhibition finalists images selected from over 2882 submissions across a wide array of categories, including: Animals in Nature, Urban Animals, Macro, Landscape, Threatened Species, Monochrome, Astrophotography, Junior, Our Impact, and Portfolio. Highlights include Matty Smith’s shot of male cuttlefish during courting season, which topped the Animals in Nature category, and Tom Owen Edmunds’s Urban Animals-winning iPhone 11 shot of a green tree frog at home in a steel toilet bowl. The exhibition’s overall winning image, My Country Burns, which also won the ‘Our Impact’ category, was taken by NSW photographer Samuel Markham, who took the winning photograph while defending his home during the devastating bushfires of 2019.

The images are on display in the Hintze Hall and entry to the exhibition is free of charge.

To coincide with the exhibition, the Australian Museum has developed a series of Digital Wildlife Photography Workshops, led by award-winning nature photographer and Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year finalist, Angela Robertson-Buchanan. The interactive workshops for both beginner and intermediate photographers shares the foundational and advanced techniques of ethical wildlife photography, and participants will be able to apply their new skills in photographing the AM’s taxidermy collection, as well as a selection of live native animals. The workshops will be held on 27 July and 7 and 8 September, with Beginners’ sessions between 10.30am and 1.30pm and Intermediate sessions (for 16+ years) from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. The fee for members is $140, non-members $175 and Concessions priced at $157.50. Click here for more information.