Top 20, Animals Category, Australasia's Top Emerging Photographers 2026

WINNER, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Lisa Skelton, 'Life within the kelp'

 

RUNNER-UP, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Emma Parker, 'Life in the mud'

 

3RD, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Kate Snow, 'Beetle Bodies'

 

4TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Emma Parker, 'Catch the fish'

 

5TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Lewis Burnett, 'Tasmanian Wildlife'

 

6TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Angela Farnsworth, 'A new generation'

 

7TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Tashwita Rahalkar, 'Kin'

 

8TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Jenna Hennessy, 'Animals of the Steppe'

 

9TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Lisa Skelton, 'Black-browed Albatross'

 

10TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Glenda Black, 'Beautiful Blue-banded Bees'

 

11TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Gergo Rugli, 'Silent Horizon'

 

12TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Walter Berger, 'Eza Foxes on Hokkaido'

 

13TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Kerryn Buckley, 'Reptiles and Amphibians of Costa Rica'

 

14TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Taliah Nouha Khoury, 'Reptilian Rascal'

 

15TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Patrick Uramowski, 'Whales and bait balls'

 

16TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Andrea Conway, 'Albatross party in the Southern Ocean'

 

17TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Ben Burton, 'Djinda'

 

18TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Ben Burton, 'Neon Rice'

 

19TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Courtney Morris, 'The Upside Down'

 

20TH, ANIMALS CATEGORY
Robert Smith, 'Bull Sharks of Fiji'