Everyone

The AOP Open Awards is the only photography competition in which professionals and amateurs compete on equal terms.  There are no categories or themes - the purpose is simply to showcase outstanding individual images.

The 2010 Open Exhibition has now been launched online - to see all this year's selected images please click here.  All visitors to the online exhibition also have the opportunity to participate in the Public Vote and vote for their favourite image to win the Public Choice award.  Votes can be cast until 1pm on Thursday 19th August and everyone who takes part in the Public Vote will be entered into a prize draw to win a collection of photographic books.  To view the 2010 Exhibition and vote for your favourite image please click here.

The 2010 Open Exhibition at the AOP Gallery has now been extended for an extra two weeks and will run from Tuesday 17th August to Thursday 9th September. 

The Gala Awards Night and Private View will take place on 19th August.  The Best in Show, Public Choice and Judge's Choice awards will be announced on the night and the winners of Best in Show & Public Choice will each receive a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.

For further information about the AOP Open please click here.

Assistants

The AOP Assistants Awards are the photography awards for Assistant Members of the AOP.  The competition annually showcases the best images from the next generation of professional photographers.

The online entry site for the 2010 competition is now open for submissions - click here to enter now.  The deadline is 6pm on August 9th but who submit their work before 6pm on July 12th can benefit from our Early Bird Discount giving 15% off the standard entry fees.

Entries are welcome from fully paid-up AOP Assistant Members - if you are interested in joining please click here. 

This year the categories have been restructured to give entrants a broader range of options and entrants can now choose between Body, Environment, Object and Project.  For further information on the competition please click here.

Photographers

The 2010 Photographers Awards competition is now closed.

Each year the competition is open to Full or Provisional Members of the AOP (click here for info on how to join), plus this year we also included a non-member category open to agencies and publishers.

The 2010 competition featured a fresh category structure and we also introduced brand new categories to recognise changing technology and show the relevance of great photography in the creative industry as a whole.

The First Round Judging took place over the last week of April and the first week of May.  Entrants were contacted on 14th May to inform them whether they had progressed to the Second Round.  The Second Round Judging has now been postponed to the week commencing 12th July and entrants will be informed by the end of July as to whether they have been selected for the exhibition and book.  All successful entrants will then be required to submit high resolution files for use in the book. 

Click here for more information about the Photographers Awards.