Enter the Australian Life photography competition

All Australian residents and permanent citizens aged 13 and above.

You don’t have to be a professional photographer. Amateur photographers are welcome.

Entry is free.

Sunday 17 May.

All works must be created with a camera (phone camera accepted).

All works must not use or include any synthetic or artificially generated images or elements (including generative fill in post-production).

All works must not have been created or developed, in whole or in part, using any generative artificial intelligence tools.

Any editing of entries should maintain the integrity of the original image’s content and context.

All works are required in landscape orientation to be exhibited horizontally.

Provide JPEG files no greater than 5MB.

Ensure your images are of sufficiently high quality and well-exposed, sharp and clear with good contrast for reproduction and printing. If you’re chosen as a finalist, we may require a higher resolution image.

Finalist images will be reproduced for the exhibition to the scale of around 3:2 ratio 1860mm high by 2800mm wide.

Finalists will be notified of any changes to final exhibition dimensions.

You may also share a print or transparency.

Entries won’t be cropped if they fulfil the ratio and size, compatible with the 35mm format.

If your work does require cropping, please supply the layout and cropping details with your entry.

Digital files for finalist images should be set at 75 DPI RGB TIFF or grayscale for black and white.

The image must have been captured between 13 April 2025 and 17 May 2026.

Winners will be announced on 25 September.

The People’s choice award will be announced on 9 October.