Competitions

The National Portrait Gallery has announced the winners of the People’s Choice Awards in the Darling Portrait Prize and the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Three Australians – Antoine Veling, Craig McGowan and Adrian Guerin – are among the winners in the Open competition, with five shortlisted in this year’s competitions.

Entries to this year’s Drone Photo Awards, a project of Siena Awards, will close on 15 June.

Entries have opened for the 2020 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards, which this year have the special theme of Fairy-wrens, Emu-wrens, and Grasswrens.

Winners have been announced in the 2020 Head On Photo Awards, an international competition for professional and amateur photographers with a prize-pool of $70,000.

Yasuyoshi Chiba has been announced as World Press Photo of the Year winner for 2020 for an image titled Straight Voice, taken in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June 2019.

Entries will open on Friday, 15 May for the 2020 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards, which introduces two new categories.

Three Australian photographers have taken out the highest awards in their categories in this year’s Sony World Photography Awards competition.

Western Australian photographer, Ren McGann, has taken out the Nikon Surf Photo of the Year Award with his image ‘The Right’ (shown below).

A panel of 10 high-profile judges from within the surfing industry has chosen the top 20 finalists for the prestigious Nikon Surf Photo and Video of the Year Awards.