Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025
UPY2024 Winner: Alex Dawson. See the winner's gallery.
Photos from the UPY2024 Award Ceremony in central London.
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UPY2025 will open for entries on 1 November 2024. The closing date is 4 January 2025, 23:59 hrs GMT.
For inspiration please view the UPY2024 results in the Winners' gallery.
Please remember that we amended the competition rules in 2023 to protect photographers from AI generated images. We now require that camera EXIF is included in all entered JPGs (it will be by default, unless you remove it) and we will check RAW files of all shortlisted images. If you are shortlisted you must be available to send us your RAW file by 18 January 2025.
UPY still allows extensive post processing, including backscatter and object removal, panoramas, photogrammetry and creative post processing, as long as they are the work of the photographer and not generated by AI. Read more about the use of AI from Alex.
The results of the UPY2025 competition will be announced at an exclusive award ceremony in central London in February 2025. Full details to follow.
See the 2024 winners gallery
Click to see a gallery of all 130 stunning underwater images - the UPY 2024 winners
Video collection
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Meet the judges
Meet our top team of international judges
UPY on the road
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Stories from our winners
See what it means to be a winner with some stories of past entrants enjoying their prizes
Competition Rules
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