Exhibitions

Little Sydney Lives

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Installed 14 September 2017
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Photography competition and exhibition for budding image-makers aged 5 to 12 years.

Artwork description

Young photographers show us their world.

Little Sydney Lives is our children’s photography competition.

Budding photographers aged 5 to 12 years are eligible to enter the competition each year. Cheeky, delightful and often surprising, their images provide insight into the lives and imaginations of our junior go-getters.

Little Sydney Lives 2026

See the 20 finalists displayed in Customs House on level 2, from Friday 25 September.

View all the Little Sydney Lives 2026 finalists.

Little Sydney Lives 2025

  • Competition winner: Home-made Mummy Double-Exposure by Chloe Wiseman
  • Competition runner up: Sibling love by Zoe Morris
A double exposure of a woman with curly hair smiling at the camera and her silhouette on the wall behind her. The photo is in black and white.
Three children in a lounge; one holds a "Sibling love" sign whilst the other two playfully wrestle and pull funny faces.

Little Sydney Lives 2024

  • Competition winner: Brother at work by Massimo Morara Tabbò
  • Competition runner up: Bored in the car by Ruby Menzies
A young child, viewed from below, looks out an apartment window at tall buildings. A window washer hangs suspended from one building.
A young child sits in a car with one hand on their head. Through the car window is a traffic light.

Little Sydney Lives archives

Explore the Little Sydney Lives competition and exhibition in years past.

Partners

The Little Sydney Lives photography competition is sponsored by OM SYSTEM.

Two men in wide-brimmed hats stand by a lorry on a rural road at sunset, with cattle and another lorry visible in the distance.

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