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Past award winners

List of Awarded photographers, from 1965

Historically the UK has been home to some of the world’s most prestigious underwater photography competitions. Bernard Eaton kicked it off when he organised the first Brighton Underwater Film Festival in 1965 (and it was a competition that led to the foundation of the British Society of Underwater Photographers in 1967).

UPY is continuing that tradition, and on this page you can see all the names of the Awarded photographers over the years.

Key:

UPY: Underwater Photographer of the Year

BUPY: British Underwater Photographer of the Year

U&C: Up and Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year

MPBUPY: Most Promising British Underwater Photographer of the Year

 

UPY AWARDS

2023 

UPY: Kat Zhou (USA) 

BUPY: Ollie Clarke (Australia) 

U&C: Kat Zhou (USA) 

MPBUPY: Theo Vickers (UK) 

 

2022 

UPY: Rafael Fernandez Caballero (Spain) 

BUPY: Matty Smith (UK) 

U&C: Quico Abadal (Spain) 

MPBUPY: Paul Pettitt (UK) 

 

2021 

UPY: Renee Capozzola (USA) 

BUPY: Mark Kirkland (UK) 

U&C: Alice Bennett (UK) 

MPBUPY: Alice Bennett (UK) 

 

2020 

UPY: Greg Lecoeur (France) 

BUPY: Nick More (UK) 

U&C: Anita Kainrath (Austria) 

MPBUPY: Nur Tucker (UK) 

 

2019 

UPY: Richard Barnden (UK) 

BUPY: Richard Barnden (UK) 

U&C: Taeyup Kim (Korea) 

MPBUPY: Malcolm Nimmo (UK) 

 

2018 

UPY: Tobias Friedrich (Germany) 

BUPY: Grant Thomas (UK) 

U&C: Man BD (Malaysia) 

MPBUPY: Tony Stephenson (UK) 

 

2017 

UPY: Gabriel Barathieu (France) 

BUPY: Nick Blake (UK) 

U&C: Horacio Martinez (Argentina) 

MPBUPY: Nicholai Georgiou (UK) 

 

2016 

UPY: Davide Lopresti (Italy) 

BUPY: Dan Bolt (UK) 

U&C: Pier Mane (South Africa) 

MPBUPY: Marty Engels Dunmore (UK) 

 

2015  

UPY: Nuno Sa (Portugal) 

BUPY: Matt Doggett (UK) 

MPBUPY: Mario Vitalini (UK) 

 

Historical UPY, which was not annual. 

 

2003 

UPY: Andy Heath (UK) 

BUPY: Andy Heath (UK) 

MPBUPY: Andy Heath (UK) 

 

2001 

UPY: Werner Thiele (Germany) 

BUPY: Pete Atkinson (UK) 

MPBUPY: Mark Walker (UK) 

 

1999:  

UPY: Franco Banfi (Switzerland) 

BUPY: Pete Atkinson (UK) 

MPBUPY: Jeff Collett (UK) 

 

1987: 

UPY: Kurt Amsler (Switzerland) 

MPBUPY: Benny Sutton (UK) 

 

1983 

BUPY: Peter Rowlands (UK) 

MPBUPY: Alan Youngs 

 

1979 

BUPY: Warren Williams (UK) 

MPBUPY: Geoff Tompkinson (UK) 

 

1976  

BUPY: Peter Scoones (UK) 

MPBUPY: Mike Portelly (UK) 

 

1970  

BUPY: Peter Scoones (UK) 

 

1968: 

BUPY Colin Doeg (UK) 

 

1966: 

UPY Geoff Harwood (UK) 

 

1965: 

UPY Phil Smith (UK)