Australia’s longest-running acquisitive photographic award, presented by MAMA (Murray Art Museum Albury).
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Applications close at 3pm AEDT on 20 February 2026
Generously supported by the MAMA Art Foundation, the National Photography Prize offers an acquisitive $40,000 Audray Banfield Award, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.
Inaugurated in 1983, the prize has been instrumental in building MAMA's reputation as a committed collector of contemporary photography, and an investor in progressive, experimental photographic practice.
Held every two years, the National Photography Prize brings together artists from across Australia who are developing and challenging photographic language and techniques.
The prize provides a forum for artists working with photography to present cohesive selections of work, or works in series, offering a depth of critical reflection that recognises the complexities and nuances of the history of the photograph and its contemporary manifestation.
The National Photography Prize encourages artists working across all areas of the photographic field to enter. This includes artists working in traditional forms of light based, chemical production through to those dealing with hybrid and expanded fields of photography and image making.
Read more online and apply via SmartyGrants by 3pm AEDT on 20 February 2026.
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