Photographic Competition for Students

The Friends have run an annual photographic competition for school and college students for over two decades. It is a great way to encourage young people to express their appreciation of Australian native plants through artistic creativity. In doing so, young photographers have an opportunity to explore and enjoy these wonderful Botanic Gardens – the world’s most comprehensive collection of Australian cultivated plants.

The competition is open to students attending Australian primary or secondary schools or colleges. It provides an excellent opportunity for students to become aware of the value and beauty of the ANBG and, by exercising their photographic skills, to share that beauty with other visitors.

The impact of COVID-19 led to the Friends suspending the competition between 2020 and 2023. In 2020 there was a retrospective exhibition of first-prize-winning entries from the past 23 years on show in November at the ANBG Visitor Centre Gallery. The Friends were delighted to run the Competition again in 2024, and look forward to the 2025 event.

24^th Photographic Competition for students

The 2024 competition opened for entries on 1 July and closed on 30 August 2024. A total of 205 photographs were entered by 88 students, from 6 primary schools and 11 high schools or secondary colleges.

Prizes were awarded to the 2024 competition winners on Saturday 28 September by Neville Page, President of the Friends of the ANBG; Dr Rebecca Pirzl, Branch Head Science and ANBG, DCCEEW; and Graham Gall, the Judges Leader from the Friends ANBG Photographic Group. Congratulations!

The prize-winning and selected other entries are on display in the ANBG Banksia Garden from Saturday 28 September to Sunday 27 October 2024. The selected photographs are exhibited at A3 size.

Categories: Primary Colour • Primary Monochrome • Secondary Monochrome • Secondary Colour • Secondary Altered Reality

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