Commonwealth Youth Photography Competition | Royal Commonwealth Society

​We’re calling on younger photographers aged 18–30 from throughout the Commonwealth to seize the facility, magnificence, and fragility of our seas. Whether you are on a shoreline, a riverbank, or a harbour wall your perspective issues.

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Enter the competitors. Make your mark. Be a part of one thing larger.

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Entries opening quickly.

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About the Competition

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The Commonwealth Youth Photography Competition 2026 is a celebration of younger expertise, world connection, and the pure world that binds us all.​

Organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society, in partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the City of London Youth Natural Environment Board, this competitors invitations younger folks from throughout the 56-nation Commonwealth household to share their imaginative and prescient by means of the lens.

This 12 months’s theme, Waves of Change,  invitations you to discover our oceans and waterways: their majesty, their vulnerability, and the communities whose lives rely upon them. We’re in search of photos that transfer folks. Images that inform tales phrases cannot.

Open to all Commonwealth nationals and residents aged 18–30.

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How Did Waves of Change Get Its Name?

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The story behind this 12 months’s theme began with younger folks identical to you. Watch the second the winner of our naming competitors was introduced, and listen to how their imaginative and prescient helped form the Commonwealth Youth Photography Competition 2026.

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