The Australian Photography awards had a single open category for the first time this year, encouraging a broad and diverse range of entries. The winning photographs include a portrait from Poppy Steer’s series of trans and queer people at home, Tobias Titz’s portrait of an emerging artist wearing a seizure-protecting helmet, and Rosanna Lang’s image of a snowed-in car on a Japanese island. The exhibition is on show at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, until 9 August
The Australian Photography awards 2026 – in pictures
The Australian Photography awards had a single open category for the first time this year, encouraging a broad and diverse range of entries. The winning photographs include a portrait from Poppy Steer’s series of trans...
Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 – in pictures
Mum And The Persimmon
Open winner: Homebody
Open winner: Shoshanna Brott
Open winner: Snowed in for the winter
Joint student winner: Among the Interstices #2A
Joint student winner: Mother dearest
Honourable mention: Matrescence
Honourable mention: Fishermen’s Friend
Honourable mention: Riley and the Roma Southern Road
We Bring Our Djäl Together
On Bluets
A Quiet Cry
The Barefoot Volcanologist
Comet Atlas from the series ‘Life Pollution’
We danced away not with a kangaroo corroboree but with us shaking our booty
Childhood
Courage Through Sisterhood
Nguma ‘Foresight’
To the Moon
Obstruction
Pilbara sunrise
Art
Photography
Source: The Guardian
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