Australian Life Photography Competition 2026

Terms and circumstances

The Council of the City of Sydney ABN 22 636 550 790 (City) delivers an annual artwork program (Art & About Sydney) which incorporates an annual Australian Life Photography Competition (Competition).

By submitting an entry into the 2026 Competition, every entrant (you) and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian, acknowledge and conform to the next phrases and circumstances:

1. Entry

   1. The 2026 Competition is free to enter.
   2. You should be 13 years or older to enter the 2026 Competition.
   3. Where you might be below the age of 18:
      1. you should have the consent of your mother or father/guardian to enter;
      2. your mother or father/guardian should learn the finished entry type, and browse and agree these phrases and circumstances, on your entry to be legitimate; and
      3. your photograph should be taken
   4. You should be an Australian citizen or have everlasting resident standing in Australia to enter the Competition.
   5. You could also be required to offer proof to show eligibility for the 2026 Competition.
   6. You can submit a most of 1 entry to the 2026 Competition (every entry comprising as much as two pictures). If a number of entries from you might be acquired by the City, solely the primary entry acquired first can be eligible for consideration.
   7. Your {photograph} should:
      1. have been taken in Australia between 13 April 2025 and 17 May 2026;
      2. be created with a digital camera (together with a digital camera telephone);
      3. not use or embrace any artificial or artificially generated photos or parts (together with generative fill in post-production); and
      4. not have been created or developed, in entire or partially, utilizing any generative synthetic intelligence instruments.
   8. The 2026 Competition commences Monday 13 April. You should submit your entry to the City by 11.59pm AEST on Sunday 17 May 2026. Late or misplaced entries is not going to be thought-about.
   9. Your entry should:
      1. meet and be submitted in accordance with the specs outlined on the entry type (Specifications); and
      2. embrace a accomplished on-line entry type.
   10. You could also be required to offer proof to show that your entry meets the necessities set out in these phrases and circumstances, together with provide of file(s) as recorded by the digital camera (unique RAW information or equal).
   11. You, and any identifiable individual within the {photograph}, can be requested to signal a mannequin launch as a situation for inclusion of your {photograph} within the 2026 Competition.

2. Judging entries

   1. The judging panel chosen by the City will choose every legitimate entry in accordance with the Specifications and can choose as much as 20 entries (finalists), The choice of the panel is ultimate and no correspondence can be entered into.
   2. The judging panel chosen by the City will choose one finalist as having probably the most excellent entry because the winner of the Australian Life Photography Prize (main winner). The choice of the panel is ultimate and no correspondence can be entered into.
   3. A Peoples’ Choice Award can be obtainable for one entrant. Voting can be on-line at and anybody might vote. Voting opens 9am on Friday 26 September and closes 11.59pm on Monday 5 October 2026. The entrant who receives probably the most on-line votes wins the People’s Choice Award (minor winner) and no correspondence can be entered into.
   4. Finalists, main winner, and the minor winner can be notified by telephone and electronic mail by a consultant of the City.

3. Remuneration and prize

   1. Each finalist can be paid a price of AUD$500 (plus GST if relevant) payable by deposit to the finalist’s nominated checking account. If a finalist doesn’t present account particulars to the City inside three (3) weeks of being notified by the City then the City reserves the correct to not pay that price.
   2. The main winner can be awarded the Australian Life Photography Prize of AUD $10,000 (plus GST if relevant) payable by deposit to the finalist’s nominated checking account.
   3. If the most important winners don’t redeem the prize inside three (3) weeks of being notified by the City then the prize can be forfeited. There can be no additional unclaimed prize determinations, i.e. no additional choice of an alternate winner by the City or the panel of judges.
   4. The minor winner will obtain a prize of an OM System skilled digital camera pack having a really useful retail worth of $5,298 (GST inclusive). This prize will not be transferable, exchangeable, or redeemable for money. If the minor winner doesn’t declare the prize inside three (3) weeks of being notified by the City then the prize can be forfeited with no additional prize determinations or different winner.

4. Copyright and ethical rights

   1. Clause 4 applies to every finalist, main winner and minor winner solely.
   2. You and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian grant the City an irrevocable worldwide licence to breed, publish, and talk to the general public your {photograph} (or any a part of it):
      1. in any media format, together with however not restricted to ads, postcards, brochures, posters, tv/print media, web sites, social media, apps, publications and reviews;
      2. for the needs of:
         1. the 2026 Competition, together with any related occasion, exhibition or catalogue;
         2. publicity and promotion of Art & About Sydney and the Competition; and
         3. inclusion within the City’s archives.
   3. You acknowledge and agree that the City might adapt your {photograph} the place needed, together with however not restricted to adapting the {photograph} for the net gallery, for any giant format replica for exhibition, or to be used in Art & About Sydney or Competition media and advertising and marketing campaigns.
   4. You, and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian, warrant that you’re the proprietor of all mental property rights within the {photograph}, or have obtained all needed approvals and consents to allow the entry of the {photograph} into the 2026 Competition and to be used of the {photograph} in accordance with these phrases and circumstances.
   5. Photography that infringes the mental property rights of any individual can be instantly faraway from the 2026 Competition and you should return to the City any remuneration or prize cash paid to you by the City.
   6. Where the City consists of your {photograph} in an exhibition of the 2026 Competition, you may be acknowledged on signage that lists your title and the title of the {photograph} and, topic to you offering consent, your contact particulars.
   7. Where the City makes use of your {photograph} in Art & About and Competition supplies and publicity, on the City’s web site, and on the Art & About Sydney web site, the City will use its finest endeavours to acknowledge you because the creator of the {photograph}.

5. Release and indemnity

   1. Clause 5 applies to every finalist, main winner and minor winner solely.
   2. You, and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian, launch the City from any declare, harm, expense, loss, price or legal responsibility with respect to:
      1. the infringement of your ethical rights in connection together with your {photograph}; and
      2. using your {photograph} by the City in accordance with these phrases and circumstances.
   3. You, and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian, conform to indemnify the City in opposition to any declare, harm, expense, loss, price (together with cheap authorized prices) or legal responsibility (together with liabilities of the City to 3rd events) arising out of or in reference to:
      1. infringement of any mental property rights in respect of your {photograph};
      2. use of your {photograph} by the City in accordance with these phrases and circumstances; and
      3. the 2026 Competition.

6. Exhibitions and occasions

   1. This clause 6 applies to every finalist, main winner and minor winner solely.
   2. The City will exhibit reproductions of chosen pictures from the 2026 Competition for 4 weeks in a location throughout the City of Sydney native authorities space.
   3. The City will publish the finalists’ and main winners’ pictures on the Art & About Sydney web site – www.artandabout.com.au
   4. You conform to attend the City’s official exhibition of 2026 Competition entries, and/or associated occasions and media alternatives, and agree to take action with no price or additional remuneration being paid to you, apart from as set out in these phrases and circumstances.
   5. If you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian should accompany you when attending 2026 Competition associated actions.

7. Large format reproduced {photograph}

   1. Clause 7 applies to every finalist, main winner and minor winner solely.
   2. Any giant format replica of the {photograph} produced by the City, together with reproductions for the needs of exhibition, would be the property of the City.
   3. If your {photograph} was included within the City’s official exhibition of 2026 Competition entries described in clause 6(b), the City will ship you the big format replica of your {photograph} if it has not been misplaced or destroyed, as soon as it’s now not required by the City.
   4. The City takes no duty for the replica while in transit, or whether it is misplaced or broken.
   5. Upon your receipt of the replica of the {photograph}, it can develop into your property.

8. GST

   1. If {a photograph} offered by a finalist, minor winner or main winner is a taxable provide, then as consideration in entire or partially for a taxable provide the individual receiving the availability (the City) should pay to the social gathering making the availability (provider) a further quantity equal to the quantity of GST payable on the availability except that consideration is expressed to be inclusive of GST.
   2. No later than 14 days after the date of fee of any GST the provider should present to the City a sound tax bill.
   3. If you aren’t registered or required to be registered for GST then the provider should give the City a “statement by the supplier” and different documentation the City fairly requests.
   4. For the needs of those phrases and circumstances “GST”, “tax invoice” and “taxable supply” have the which means given in A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).
   5. Any quantity paid to a finalist, main winner or minor winner for the 2026 Competition pursuant to those phrases and circumstances is prize cash. Nothing in these phrases and circumstances, or the conduct of the Competition, renders you an worker, employee, agent, or accomplice of the City.

9. General

   1. The 2026 Competition is a sport of talent, and likelihood performs no half in figuring out the winner.
   2. Employees of the City and Councillors of the City, and their instant households, are ineligible to enter the 2026 Competition.
   3. By coming into the 2026 Competition, you, and the place you might be below the age of 18, your mother or father/guardian, acknowledge and settle for these phrases and circumstances.
   4. The City might cancel or differ the 2026 Competition or these phrases and circumstances at any time. The City is not going to be liable for any loss or prices incurred by you, or your mother or father/guardian in case you are below the age of 18, in relation to such cancellation or variation.