Competitions

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.

The 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at the Australian National Maritime Museum today, showcasing the best photographs from more than 15,000 submissions from around the globe.

The winners of the 2025 and now 16th Epson International Pano awards have been announced, with the competition attracting an increasing number of entries showing innovative perspectives and interesting and unusual subjects.

The World Photography Organisation is seeking entries to the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious photography competitions, which is open to all.

The winners of the two photography awards, the Felix Schoeller Photo Award and the German Peace Prize for Photography, were announced on Thursday, 25 September.

Sony has announced the winners of its tenth annual Sony Alpha Awards, which celebrate the spectacular talents of Australian and New Zealand photographers captured on Sony Alpha cameras and lenses.