ROSL Photography Award 2025

Opportunity type: Award

For: Photographers

Deadline: 01/09/25

Rewards: Up to £2,000 + fully funded trip to London + publication + professional support

Location Eligibility: Multiple countries 

About this opportunity

Established in 2019, the ROSL Photography Award is a biennial contemporary photography competition, free to enter via digital submission. Now in its fourth edition, the competition has continued to build on its reputation and tripled the number of entries since the first iteration.

Each entrant can submit up to five digital images of their choice taken in the past 18 months from any image making camera source, tackling the subject however they wish. The previous competition received over 500 entries from 40 countries, collecting huge praise along the way from our selected industry judges for their quality and depth.

The competition is free to enter and offers £3,500 of prize money, an exhibition of shortlisted entries in London, winning images published in Overseas Journal. For the 2025 edition, applicants are asked to respond to the theme ‘Beyond the Figure’.

Rewards

1st Prize: £2,000, a 5-day trip to London for the exhibition (including accommodation at the Royal Over-Seas League), winning image published in Overseas Magazine and professional development support from the arts team.

Runner-Up: £1,000 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine.

The Madiha Aijaz Prize: £500 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine, awarded to a Young Photographer of Promise under 23 years of age.

• Must be aged 18 or older
• Must be a citizen of a Commonwealth or former Commonwealth country, or the USA, EU/EEA, Switzerland, Japan, or South Korea
• Images must be taken in the last 18 months and respond to the 2025 theme ‘Beyond the Figure’

Entry Fee

Free

How to Apply

Apply using the link: ROSL Photography Award 2025

All questions regarding this award should be emailed to membership@rosl.org.uk