Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition set to open in Sydney

The Australian National Maritime Museum is ready to host the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 exhibition from this Thursday.

The exhibition will showcase 112 placing photographs celebrating the fantastic thing about the ocean whereas highlighting ecological challenges and the pressing want for marine conservation.

For the primary time within the competitors’s historical past, two Australian photographers have been named class winners from a pool of over 15,000 entries.

Melbourne-based photographer Marcia Riederer took out the Fine Art class with a surprising picture of a Dwarf Minke whale captured on the Ribbon Reefs of the Great Barrier Reef.

Meanwhile, Craig Parry from Lennox Head, NSW, received the Human Connection class with a dramatic drone shot documenting a rescue try for a stranded Humpback whale on Seven Mile Beach.

Additionally, two different Australian photographers have been recognised within the competitors: Brooke Pyke, third within the Portfolio class, and Gergo Rugli, runner-up within the Adventure class.

The exhibition celebrates excellence throughout classes together with The Ocean, Wildlife, Fine Art, Adventure, Conservation (Hope), Conservation (Impact), Human Connection, Young Photographer of the Year and the Ocean Portfolio Award, together with the distinguished Female Fifty Fathoms Award, this yr awarded to Jialing Cai.

The total winner for 2025 was Yury Ivanov of Indonesia.

Australian Photography and Capture are official media companions for the exhibition, which affords a singular alternative to expertise the images up shut, celebrating each the creative and environmental significance of the ocean.

You can see a collection of the successful photographs beneath. The exhibition runs from Thursday till May 6.