Competitions

With the opening of the 2023 Head On Photo Festival only weeks away, the organisation is seeking submissions for the AddOn exhibition, which will close on 17 October.

The National Portrait Gallery will be accepting entries for the 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize from 1 November 2023 to 7 February 2024.

José D. Riquelme from Spain is the Pano Awards’ 2023 Open Photographer of the Year.

Sydney photographer, Les Irwig has taken out the Smartphone Weather Photographer of the Year prize with a shot of a surfer contemplating the heavy clouds of an impending storm.

Sydney-based artist Anne Zahalka has been named winner of the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for her work ‘Kunstkammer’ (2023).

Sydney’s Northern Beaches Council is again running its underwater photography competition as part of the eight-day Ocean Festival which kicks off on Sunday 26 November.

A portrait of a woman who was the victim of serious burns scarring has been chosen as the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award in the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Entries for the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition will open on Monday 16 October 2023 and close at 11.30am GMT on Thursday 7 December 2023.

The film ‘Big Chef, Little Chef’ created by Kerrod Cooper has been announced as the overall winner of Panasonic’s Lumix 72-hour Filmmaking Challenge for Australian filmmakers.

Winning entries have been announced in the third annual Catchlight Film Festival, which recognises filmmakers from Australia and New Zealand who use Sony cameras.