Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards
Discover Brisbane from a new perspective with the Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards.

About the Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards
The Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards is an annual competition celebrating local photographers and our great city.
With a new theme each year, the competition showcases moments, people and places in Brisbane through a local lens.
It's open to anyone who lives, works or studies in Brisbane, from professional shutterbugs to budding snappers.
Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards 2025
Entries are now open for Brisbane City Council's Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards 2025.
This year’s theme celebrates 100 years of Greater Brisbane.
Help us celebrate Brisbane's Centenary by submitting images in this year's Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards showcasing the places, experiences and events that have helped shape Brisbane into Australia's lifestyle capital.
Enter your image for a chance to win cash prizes across 6 categories. Entries close at 4pm on Friday 6 June 2025.
Photos submitted for this year's competition must be taken from 7 June 2024 onwards.
Eligibility
Who's eligible?
To be eligible you must:
- live, work or study in the Brisbane Local Government Area and be able to provide proof of this if requested
- not be a Council employee, including its contractors (not including its volunteers)
- not be an immediate family member of:
- the Lord Mayor
- a member of the judging panel.
Image eligibility
For an image to be eligible for judging in the Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards 2025, it must be:
- taken within the Brisbane Local Government Area on or after 7 June 2024
- watermark free; and
- the work of the entrant.
Permission must be sought for any people in an image. For more information, visit the Arts Law Centre of Australia website.
Additional eligibility conditions apply for the LaVonne Bobongie Award and the Green Heart, Social Media and Student prize categories.
Award categories and prizes
There are six categories in this year's Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards.
In 2021, the LaVonne Bobongie Award was introduced to recognise late artist LaVonne Bobongie's contribution to Brisbane as an advocate of First Nations Country, community, and identity.
LaVonne was actively involved in her community as a photographer, artist and mentor to young people, and she worked with Council over several years in various roles.
To be eligible to win the LaVonne Bobongie Award, entrants must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. All photos submitted in this category can be of any subject and should relate to this year’s theme which celebrates 100 years of Greater Brisbane.
Entrants are welcome to submit images that showcase the places, experiences and events that have helped shape Brisbane into Australia's lifestyle capital.
Terms and conditions
Download the terms and conditions for more information about the awards.
2024 award winners
The 2024 theme was 'Brisbane in its best light – sharing the places, people and experiences that make our city shine brightly.’
Eight winners were chosen from more than 2,000 entries.
Prize money ranged from $1,000 to $5,000.
You can also view the winning images in our Flickr album.