The Better Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year Award 2025 is a globally respected competition offering significant prizes and a unique opportunity for growth. With four distinct categories – Emotive Portraiture, Classic Landscapes, Revealing Nature, and Open (Your Choice) – photographers are invited to showcase their best work. A distinctive feature of this award is that every entry receives constructive feedback from the judging panel, highlighting areas of strength and potential improvement, making it a valuable learning experience for participants. The award system itself is designed to encourage progression, with Bronze recognizing potential, Silver signifying professional standards, and Gold reserved for truly exceptional images that deeply impress all three judges.
Entry Fees:
AUS $20 per image and if you enter prior to 23 June 2025, every fifth entry is free. So, enter and pay for four images, get the fifth one free. Enter and pay for a further four entries and the tenth entry is free.
Specifications:
- AdobeRGB or sRGB colour space, 8-bit;
- Measure 2500 to 3000 pixels on the longest side;
- Be saved as a JPEG at a setting of 8 or 9 ( 80%) or higher.
There are four categories: Emotive Portraits, Classic Landscapes, Revealing Nature, Open (Your Choice).
The Winner of each category will receive AUS $750 cash.
The overall Winner of the Better Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year will receive AUS $2000 cash.
Additional non-financial Gold, Silver and Bronze Merit Awards will be awarded.
Winners will be published online at http://www.betterphotography.com and http://www.betterphotographyphotocomp.com. Winners may be published in the Organiser’s associated magazines and publications, such as Better Photography Magazine, and by the sponsors to the extent it is in connection with the competition. Entries may also be published in various magazines and websites around the world in connection with publicity for the Award and the entrants.
The Organiser acknowledges that You, the Entrant, retain full ownership of the copyright in each Entry.
All Entrants agree that any Entry submitted to the competition may be used by the Organiser and its Event Partners for the purposes of judging the Competition, and marketing and promotional purposes of the Competition.
Winning entries will be used as follows and only with respect to promoting the competition.
displaying the winning entries at public exhibitions promoting the Awards;
inclusion within the Organiser’s and Event partners’ websites and magazines, an awards book, magazine or similar (in both paper and digital media);
inclusion in future publications and websites promoting the Awards, such as a 10-year anniversary compendium of past winners;
inclusion within any material promoting the Awards;
sub-licensing winning Entries to the press and websites for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any exhibition;
allowing viewers of the Awards website to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone for their personal, non-commercial use only.
Non-winning entries may be used solely to promote the competition for a period not to exceed 5 years from the close of the competition.
Any photograph used by the Organiser shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such a credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as the Organiser uses its reasonable endeavours to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure. Where any photograph is provided to third parties for use in promotion and publicity, they will be requested to carry a credit line, but the Organiser cannot be responsible for non-compliance.
Disclaimer: Although we make every effort to provide accurate information, we advise a thorough review of the competitions rules and details to ensure your understanding and acceptance before proceeding with your entry.
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