The International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards allows photographers from across the globe to showcase and enter their work in a wide variety of categories. When entering, the Photographer will select the category they believe best suits the image being entered. The image will be judged based on its merits within that category.
The International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards is open to all photographers, Professional and Amateur.
2023 Awards Open July 1st 2023
2023 Awards Close September 28th 2023
The 15 Highest scoring entries from each of the 11 Categories will then be re-judged by the 6 judges as a new collection and the Winner of the International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards will be the highest scoring image from those 165 entries.
The Runner Up will be the 2nd Highest scoring image from those 165 entries.
All Winners and Finalists will be listed on the website and receive official result watermark badges to utilise to promote their winning / finalist entries on their websites.
A portrait of any singular person attending the wedding, taken on the wedding or elopement day. This might be one of the individuals who is being married, but it may also be a member of the bridal party or a guest from the day. Previous winning entries have included portraits of the bride up close, a flower-girl in the bride’s shoes, there’s no telling what will win this year!
Breaking the rules doesn’t give you the green light to get all Ai computer generated here, that’s not what this category is about (you must abide by the competition rules). This category is for those images created that don’t follow any photography rule book, for images that stretch our perception of what a wedding photograph should be. Throw the rule of thirds out the window, perfect focus and exposure…what’s that!? Maybe you shot a session at 56,000 ISO in broad daylight by mistake and something special resulted…this is the category for those moments!
We’ve teamed up with Award sponsor Narrative to present this exciting new entry category! We have tested a number of Ai ‘culling’ tools and found that we’ve lost some of the control we need as photographers – to not miss those special moments that don’t necessarily fit the mould of “correct” in the Ai mind.
Narrative Select is designed so that photographers retain the power to maintain creative control through the selection process, so that those “break the rules” moments don’t end up on the cutting room floor.
To celebrate the inaugural year of this category we’ve reduced the entry fee to $10 and there’s a nice little kicker in the prize bundle for the category winner whoop whoop!
LIT! is all about the addition of a human-made light source to an image (on & off-camera flash, LED, Sparklers, tungsten etc) We’re celebrating our new sponsor GODOX and the creative sprinkle some extra lighting can bring to a scene by introducing this exciting new category. Are you the LIT master this year?
A photograph taken from the perspective ‘from above’ the subject within the photograph – this can include photographs taken by drones as well as hand held cameras. It also includes from fixed wing aircraft and helicopters (or trees, off the side of buildings, rooftops, building, ladder etc.) imagination and gravity are the only limitations.
A wedding or elopement photograph that you feel fits the bill of Epic. The image will reflect a moment that is Epic in nature, this could include, but is not limited to a scene that is adventurous and grand with awe inspiring scenery, but it might also just be epic because it’s so beautiful, emotive, awesome inspiring in another way.
Photo by Kim Burrows
