Winners across five photo award categories of the 2017 Head On Photo Festival were recently revealed at an event in Sydney, marking the official opening of the festival.

Entries for the $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture dedicated to the memory of Olive Cotton, one of Australia’s leading twentieth century photographers close on 12 May.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize is an award for a photographic artwork of a significant Australian, offering a first prize of $15,000.

The overall winner of Australia's Top Emerging Photographers 2017 is revealed!

The grand prize winners have recently been announced for the world’s largest photography competition – the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. This year, 227,596 images from 183 countries were received.

Applications for Getty Images’ 2017 Grants for Editorial Photography programme are now being accepted, with a total of five prizes of US$10,000 up for grabs, to pursue projects of personal and journalistic significance.

Ken Drake has been named 2017 AIPP QLD Epson Professional Photographer of the Year. Plus all the other category winners revealed.

The winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 has recently been announced with renowned Sydney portrait photographer Gary Grealy taking out the award for his portrait, Richard Morecroft and Alison Mackay,

The Pool Grant is an initiative that provides $10,000 and a year of mentorship to an emerging photographer for the fulfillment of a photographic project.

Michael Teo has been named 2017 AIPP VIC Epson Professional Photographer of the Year. Read on for all the winners and a selection of the winning work.

Sony has recently announced the winners of its ten Open categories and National Awards program for the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s largest photography competition.

Tobias Titz has taken out the Art Handlers’ Award for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 for his portrait, Bobby Bunungurr.

The winners of the Australian Photobook of the Year Awards 2016 and the New Zealand Photobook of the Year Awards 2016 were recently announced, the results proving that antipodean photo book creation is at an internationally competitive standard.

Surf photographer Russell Ord's pursuit of the 'ultimate shot' is the subject of a new documentary on ABC iView.

Google has released a new JPEG encoder that it says can reduce file size by up to 35% with minimal quality loss.

Entries are now open for the 2017 Leica Oskar Barnack Awards, with a category for established professionals as well as up-and coming photographers under the age of 25 – the Newcomer Award, offering a prize pool of 80,000 euros.