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.
Join us on Tuesday 28th April for our rescheduled first Free Image Critique
We will be using submissions from the postponed session on 16 April. If you entered that critique session, at least one of your images will be shown and discussed.
From 7pm AEST, a spectacular panel of experienced photographers (drawn from the Aus Photo Prize international judge team) will lend their expertise to help you get your images competition-ready.
If you're working to get images ready for submission, and you'd like a little extra advice, this event is perfect! We won't discuss scores, but we will talk about steps that might help to make each image more effective. The images remain completely anonymous - we don't reveal photographer's names to the judges or to the audience.
Attendance is free and open to everyone. Whether you are submitting images for critique, or just want to watch and listen and learn, it's going to be a brilliant evening. This session will be available for 7 days only - entrants are submitting unfinished work, and we want to respect entrants and not have unfinished work available to view long-term.
Critique Session Full. Critique #2 opens 2 May
Now |
1. Purchase Your Entries |
2 April - 31 May | |||
Now |
2. Upload Images |
Before 31 May | |||
3. Round 1 Closed Judging |
8 - 21 June | ||||
4. Live Stream Judging |
8 - 31 July | ||||
5. Awards Ceremony |
13 August | ||||
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
