RIBA Photo Festival photography contest 2023
As part of the RIBA Photo Festival 2023, the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted a photography contest, which was open to all RIBA Members and RIBA Student members.
Hundreds of entries were received with photographs taken from around the world. See the winner and shortlisted entries below.
Winning entry
Hammad Haider
Manshiyet Nasser, Cairo (2022)
Shortlisted entries
- Allister Godfrey: ‘Bodleian, Grey Matter’ (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2023)
- Clara Dip Wan Cheung: ‘The Pulse of Central Hong Kong’ (Gough Street, Central Hong Kong, 2019)
- Ed Parham: Untitled (no date)
- Eliana Dyer-Fernandes: ‘Exhibit 7’ (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2023)
- Hammad Haider: Ibn Tulun, Cairo (2022)
- Hammad Haider: Manshiyet Nasser, Cairo (2022) (overall winner)
- Ian Blake: Kennet & Avon Canal, West Berkshire (2022)
- Peter Williams: ‘Urban Reflection’ (Marseille’s Vieux Port, 2023)
- Peter Williams: ‘Garden Cabinet’ (Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, 2023)
- Ziyaad Oozeer: ‘Is it yellow enough?’ (Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh, 2019)
The shortlisted entries were exhibited at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, in London during the RIBA Photo Festival.
They can be viewed below and will be shared across our social channels and accessioned in the RIBA Photographs Collection, one of the largest collections of architectural photographs in the world.
The winning entry will be published in the RIBA Journal.
About the competition
Entrants were invited to submit photographs in the below categories:
- Architecture as social space
- Re-use
- Contrasts
Judging
The entries were reviewed by a judging panel consisting of RIBA President Muyiwa Oki, photographer Richard Bryant HonFRIBA, and RIBA Photographs Curator Valeria Carullo.
Shortlisted photographs
