ENTERING.
The Event Photography Awards are an annual not-for-profit competition open to both professional and amateur photographers over 18 years old.
Photographs entered into the 2025 competition must have been taken during the calendar year of 2024.
Entered images must be uploaded in high-resolution format and should be JPEG, PNG or TIFF files no smaller than 800KB, but no larger than 5MB.
A fee of £25 is charged to enter up to 5 photos. A further £25 is charged for each additional set of up to 5 photos. Entrants can submit as many photos as they like into as many categories as they like.
Please carefully consider the category into which each photo is entered. However, photos may be entered into more than one category and will be judged accordingly.
There are seventeen categories to enter, including three separate classes for Music Events – Concerts, Performers and now also Audience.
Entries will close at midnight on Monday 31st March 2025.
Judging will take place during April and short-listed photographers will be informed of their success by early May and invited to the Awards Night at 66 Portland Place, the home of RIBA, on Thursday 29th March 2025, where all the winners, runners-up and highly-commended awards will be announced.
Awards night TICKET, TROPHIES, Kudos, BADGES, MEDIA COVERAGE & CASH.
All short-listed photographers (usually around 40% of entrants) are invited to attend the highly enjoyable awards event as guests of competition founders and headline sponsors Off To Work, the UK event industry’s premier staffing agency (ticket value = £90).
We’re delighted to confirm that the EPA 2025 Awards Night held will again be held at the beautiful central London art deco headquarters of RIBA at 66 Portland Place, on Thursday 29th May 2025.
Drinks and delicious canapes and bowl food will accompany a display of all the short-listed images, amounting to well over 100 prints. Short-listed photographers enjoy a 50% discount on tickets for their guests.
A fun and fast-paced awards ceremony is held RIBA’s 280-seater Jarvis Hall. Every category winner is invited on stage to receive a handsome personalised engraved trophy, while the overall winner also receives a cheque for £1,000.
Being the winner of an Event Photography Award is a prestigious accolade that can be highly beneficial to a photographer’s business. To help amplify their success, award-winning photographers are sent an ‘EPA Badge of Honour’ to add to their website and post on their social media channels. Winning images are also permanently added to EPA website’s gallery of Past Awards.
TICKET
TROPHIES
BADGES
KUDOS
MEDIA COVERAGE
£1,000 First Prize
how to &
why Enter.
MEDIA COVERAGE & EXPOSURE.
PRESS.
Each year the Event Photography Awards enjoys coverage in both the national press and across a wide range of event industry media, amounting to a reach of some 7 million readers and users.
The overall award winners, as well as certain category winners, invariably receive coverage in print, but also online, on e-casts and through very well-followed social media channels.
SOCIAL MEDIA.
Entrants will often be included in our ongoing marketing of the awards through various media outlets as well as the EPA and Off To Work social media channels, which combined boast well over 40,000 followers, with Instagram and Linkedin to the fore. Posts are often based on new entries and news from, or features on, past award winners.
WEBSITE.
All the main award-winning photographs, including runners-up and highly commended shots, are uploaded onto the EPA website’s comprehensive gallery of Past Awards and remain available for event professionals to reference – each with the photographers’ contact details or a social media link immediately to hand.
There are also opportunities to have stories and coverage on our website's news channel, which will be amplified through our social media channels.
EXHIBITIONS. Many award-winning entries are displayed through special gallery-style stands at various events and exhibitions, including the UK event industry’s leading trade show International Confex, which will be held on 28 & 29 February 2024 at London Excel.
AWARDS CEREMONY.
At least six short-listed photographs in each category will be on display at the awards ceremony, which is attended by a plethora of influential event industry professionals, as well as journalists from a range of the industry media, many of whom commission photography.
Guests at past EPA awards night have told us that they enjoy interacting at the event with the photographers whose work is on display. As such, attending photographers have special name badges that highlight past award wins and the categories which they are short-listed in.
PAST WINNERS.
