EARLY BIRD EXTENDED - NOW CLOSES 11PM 4th MAY!
Open to professional, amateur and student photographers from Australia and around the world.
With over 2,500 entries from 21 countries, 2025 was our biggest competition ever, and 2026 is going to be even better!
Key features of the Australian Photographic Prize are the diverse range of categories to enter, high quality of online feedback and livestream judging for the top 30 entries in each category where entrants can see their images scored and discussed by a panel of leading photographic experts.
Entry Cost: $35 AUD per image or $140 for 5 images
Early Bird: $30 AUD per image or $120 for 5 images
Written Feedback: $10 AUD per image
Images may be uploaded at any time prior to close of entries
The 2026 Competition Features:
Photo: Frances Suter
Thursday 16 April we held a special impromptu Judge Advice Panel. It was a fantastic chance to spend some time with a world-class panel of experienced judges, picking their brains about all the different aspects of entering competitions - curating your work, tuning it, choosing titles, thinking about how judges will approach your images... so many different aspects of how to go through the process and prepare your entries.
We held our rescheduled critique session with the images submitted for the first session.
Critique session entries are completely free, with no obligation to enter the main competition. Limit of 1 per person.
Critique session entries are completely free, with no obligation to enter the main competition. Limit of 1 per person.
Opening 6 May
Critique session entries are completely free, with no obligation to enter the main competition. Limit of 1 per person.
Opening 20 May
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1. Purchase Your Entries |
2 April - 31 May | ||
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2. Upload Images |
Before 31 May | ||
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3. Round 1 Closed Judging |
8 - 21 June | ||
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4. Live Stream Judging |
8 - 31 July | ||
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5. Awards Ceremony |
13 August | ||
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6. Results and Feedback |
Results: 14 August Feedback: 31 August |
The Australian Photographic Prize is an annual all-embracing national Photography Competition for Australian and International amateur, professional and student photographers.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which the Australian Photographic Prize does business. We pay our deep respect to the Ancestors and Elders of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples where our awards are conducted. We also acknowledge all First Nations Peoples that make contributions to our photography community.
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Photo: Melanie Sinclair
