Competitions

Win: Double passes to Photograph

Fresh from its popular run at the New Zealand International Film Festival, the photography-focus romantic drama Photograph is coming to cinemas, and we have tickets to give away.

Winners announced: 2019 Amateur Photographer of the Year

This year’s competition had a total of 14,634 entries — our biggest yet! Our judges had the colossal task of whittling these down to just a handful for each category, which you can see printed in D-Photo issue 91 in our shortlist gallery. Did you make the shortlist?

$21K worth of prizes announced for Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year

We’re finally letting you in on what you’re in the running for in the Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year competition! Not only do you have the chance of being crowned the 2019 Amateur Photographer of the Year and receiving the amazing grand prize from Sigma, but each of our 11 categories have prizes for first, second, and third.

Your best chance of winning big: APOTY 2019

The fact that so many of you have entered APOTY 2019 before even finding out what you’re in the running for — aside from the glory of being crowned the 2019 Amateur Photographer of the Year — is testament to the fact that our prize pool does not disappoint. We’ll be announcing the prizes shortly, but for now, we’d like to share some tips for your best chance of being in the running to win.

Our Picks 3: Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year 2019

Take a look at the latest batch of beautiful entries to the Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year competition. With more than 3,500 entries overall, it’s definitely getting harder to pick out our favourites! What you see here is just a tiny proportion of worthy entries.

Our Picks 2: Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year 2019

Just in time for some Easter inspiration, here’s the second installment of Our Picks for the Sigma APOTY 2019! More than 2000 images from photographers around the country have been entered so far. Here, we share just a few of the images of what is turning out to be an amazing assemblage of photographs, both in quality and quantity.

Our Picks 1: Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year 2019

With the return of the Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year for 2019, we’re also bringing back the ‘Our Picks’ series we ran last year, where the team at D-Photo chooses some standout entries to share for your viewing pleasure — and as inspiration to get your own photos out there.

Amateur Photographer Student category to include tertiary students

Throughout the years we’ve refined our categories, and we continue to do so. This year we have had particularly strong calls to include tertiary students — and we’re listening. You will now find two entry forms in the Student category: one for high school students and one for tertiary students.

Bill Cunningham book giveaway

Iconic New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham looks back on his huge body of work in Fashion Climbing: A Memoir. Sign up to our newsletter to get in the draw to win one of two copies!