The 10th anniversary Event Photography Awards 2024 are open for entries

Entries are now open for the Event Photography Awards 2024, the 10^th anniversary competition. Founded by staffing agency Off To Work, the not-for-profit contest continues to highlight the importance of great photography to the sustenance of the events industry.

Entries close at midnight, Saturday March 3oth!

There are sixteen categories to enter, from Catering, Conferences and Christmas Parties, to Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Venues, plus a new A Listers category for shots of celebrities at events.

In all, twenty trophies are up for grabs, including a Best Amateur award, plus a cheque for £1,000 to the overall winner. Entrants are primarily photographer however companies in the events sector can also enter images they have captured or had commissioned.

Photos taken during 2023 can be uploaded through the competition website at a cost of just £20 per set of five, although to celebrate the 10^th anniversary, there’s a special £10 discount for 10 shots.

Having proved the perfect venue earlier this year, the highly enjoyable awards event is returning to 66 Portland Place, the home of RIBA, on Wednesday 5^th June, where over 100 short-listed shots will be on display, and to which all short-listed photographers will be invited to attend as guests of Off To Work.

16 categories to enter at the Event Photography Awards 2024

Entries are now open for the Event Photography Awards 2024, the 10^th anniversary competition. Founded by staffing agency Off To Work, the not-for-profit contest continues to highlight the importance of great photography to the sustenance of the events industry.

There are sixteen categories to enter, from Catering, Conferences and Christmas Parties, to Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Venues, plus a new A Listers category for shots of celebrities at events.

In all, twenty trophies are up for grabs, including a Best Amateur award, plus a cheque for £1,000 to the overall winner. Entrants are primarily photographer however companies in the events sector can also enter images they have captured or had commissioned.

Photos taken during 2023 can be uploaded through the competition website at a cost of just £20 per set of five, although to celebrate the 10^th anniversary, there’s a special £10 discount for 10 shots.

Having proved the perfect venue earlier this year, the highly enjoyable awards event is returning to 66 Portland Place, the home of RIBA, on Wednesday 5^th June, where over 100 short-listed shots will be on display, and to which all short-listed photographers will be invited to attend as guests of Off To Work.

Make sure you’ll enter by midnight, Saturday March 3oth!

Who’s behind the Event Photography Awards?

EPA Founder & CEO of Off To Work, Philip Atkins, commented: “I remain passionate and proud to support a competition that celebrates the brilliant photographers whose work, more than ever, does so much to amplify, justify and thereby sustain the events industry. It’s always so inspiring to see the ingenuity, tenacity, technical wizardry and pure professionalism of our sector captured with such amazing creative clarity.”

Competition & Event Director, Graham Hill commented: “This is the earliest we’ve ever opened entries, and I am so excited to see another array of amazing images and magic moments captured at events. We’re hoping more agencies, caterers, organisers and venues will enter directly this time and help make the 10^th anniversary competition the biggest and best yet.”

More about the awards

The Event Photography Awards were founded in 2014 by Philip Atkins, Managing Director of premier event staffing agency Off to Work, to celebrate the (often unsung) photographers who contribute so much to the validity, sustenance and marketability of the events industry.

The competition is a not-for-profit exercise open to both professionals and amateurs.

The competition has sixteen categories (listed below), plus awards for Best Amateur, Best Portfolio, the Peoples’ Choice Award, judged by attendees during the awards event, and Overall Winners.

The 16 categories of the Event Photography Awards are:

• A Listers
• Behind the Scenes
• Brand Activations & Experiential Events
• Catering, Food & Drink
• Christmas Parties & Seasonal Events
• Corporate Events & Conferences
• Cultural Events
• Music Events – Concerts
• Music Events – Performers
• Private Events
• Royal Occasions
• Sporting Events
• Trade Shows & Exhibitions
• Venues
• Weddings

To glean an appropriately wide range of inherently subjective views, the competition is judged by a panel of over 50 industry leaders and senior members of the trade media.

The competition attracted over 1700 images from nearly 200 photographers in 2023, more than double the numbers of the hastily organised 2022 contest (after a pandemic enforced hiatus in 2021) and the highest entry level in the history of the competition.

The Awards Event will return to 66 Portland Place in June

Having proved the perfect venue this year, the EPA 2024 Awards Event will be returning to the stunning 66 Portland Place, the home of RIBA, on Wednesday 5^th June 2024.

Event Photography Awards are proud to support The Photography Foundation, a charity that uses photography as an educational tool to develop the life-skills, confidence and connections of less privileged young creative people through a dedicated trainee programme.

Key event partners, category sponsors and supporters that make the whole thing possible include:

• Off To Work – Staffing and founding/headline sponsors
• RIBA – 66 Portland Place Venue and Venues category sponsor
• Company of Cooks  – Catering and Royal Occasions category sponsor
• Visions Group – Event Production and Behind the Scenes category sponsor
• Tembo – Conferences & Corporate Events category sponsor
• International Confex – Cultural Events category sponsor
• Keith Prowse – Sporting Events category sponsor
• SurveyLegend – Judging/voting platform
• The HAC – Judging venue
• Triggerfish – PR support

For more information, photos, comments and quotes, please contact:

Graham Hill, EPA Competition & Event Director

0771 204 5602 / graham@eventphotographyawards.com

You can read about the Event Photography Awards 2023 winners and see the fantastic winning photos here.