APOY

Our annual photography competition Amateur Photographer of the Year returns for 2024 – over £17,500 worth of prizes to be won!

Amateur Photographer of the Year (APOY) is the UK’s most prestigious photography competition for amateur photographers.

The competition is open to all amateur photographers* and once again we have teamed up with Photocrowd, who will be hosting the competition on a simple and intuitive platform.

The competition has 10 rounds, each with a different theme. The themes for the 2024 competition will be: Black & White, Animal Kingdom, City Life, Action, Landscapes, People, Macro, Dusk to Dawn, Travel and Open (Anything goes!)

APOY 2024 IS NOW OPEN!

Get one additional free entry in each round of APOY 2024 using a code printed in the latest issue of Amateur Photographer magazine. Starting from the issue dated 9th April. Purchase a print or digital copy here.

Our Young Amateur Photographer of the Year category and Camera Club award are back, more information can be found below.

* For the purposes of this competition, ‘Amateur’ in this context means photography is your hobby, and not your primary source of income.

New sponsors: Camera Centre UK!

We are delighted to welcome Camera Centre UK as our sponsor for this year’s competition!

Plus, Adobe and Viewsonic

Also joining us for 2024, are Adobe and ViewSonic, who are contributing some fantastic prizes!

Why enter APOY?

A whopping£17,500+ worth of prizes! See details below.
Your work will be seen by a panel of experienced judges
Get your photographs in front of a wider audience
Gain exposure in Amateur Photographer magazine and online, through our website and social media!

Young Amateur Photographer of the Year

Our Young Photographer of the Year category is open to those aged 13-21, entry for this category is FREE and all rounds are the same as for the main competition.

Entrants should be 21 years old or younger by the competition’s final closing date of 31st December 2024. Minimum age to enter is 13 years old.

The Camera Club award

Do you belong to a camera club? You can accumulate points for your society when you enter APOY. Select your camera club when entering.

If you are a member of a camera club, tell us your UK camera club when you fill out our simple agreement form before you enter your first image.

After all ten rounds are complete, the club with the most points will win the overall title.

What could I win?

Amateur Photographer of the Year Grand Prize winner:

Our grand prize winner will take home a £1,000 voucher for the Camera Centre UK.

Amateur Photographer of the Year round winners:

Round winners will also get over £1,000 worth of prizing, including a £500 Camera Centre UK voucher and an ‘All Apps’ Adobe Creative Clouds annual subscription worth £660.

The Creative Cloud ‘All Apps’ plan includes more than 20 creative apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and many more, as well as 100GB of Cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Creative Cloud Libraries, Adobe Fonts and more.

The runner up in each round will receive a one-year subscription to the Adobe Photography plan (worth £120) which combines the power of Lightroom and Photoshop for maximum creativity and to edit, store, and share your images. It also includes 20GB of cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Adobe Portfolio Creative Cloud Libraries and more.

Young APOY 2024

Young Amateur Photographer of the Year round winners:

The winner of each round of Young APOY will receive a one-year subscription to the Adobe Photography plan (worth £120) which combines the power of Lightroom and Photoshop for maximum creativity and to edit, store, and share your images. It also includes 20GB of cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Adobe Portfolio Creative Cloud Libraries and more.

Young Amateur Photographer of the Year grand prize winner:

At the end of the 10 rounds, the photographer with the most combined points will be crowned the Young Amateur Photographer of the Year 2024, and will take home a £300 voucher to spend at Camera Centre UK.

Camera Club winners

This year we are offering prizing worth £2,500 to the club that amasses the most points after all ten rounds are complete. You can accumulate points for your club when you enter APOY, and the club with the most points will win a fabulous ViewSonic X1-4K projector worth £1,500.

In addition, the member of the winning club who contributed the most points to their club’s points tally will win a ViewSonic ColorPro VP2786-4K monitor worth £1,000. You’ll have the option to tell us your UK camera club when you fill out the APOY agreement form.

* Please note that for 2024, the Camera Centre vouchers are available only to winning photographers who are based in the UK.

Learn more about our sponsors and prizes here.