IMPORTANT Website terms of use and cookie statement

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)

Manshiyet Nasser, Cairo (2022) by Hammad Haider

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:

  1. Architecture as social space
  2. Re-use
  3. 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

‘Bodleian, Grey Matter’ (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2023) by Allister Godfrey
‘The Pulse of Central Hong Kong’ (Gough Street, Central Hong Kong, 2019) by Clara Dip Wan Cheung
Untitled (no date) by Ed Parham
‘Exhibit 7’ (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2023) by Eliana Dyer-Fernandes
Ibn Tulun, Cairo (2022) by Hammad Haider
Kennet & Avon Canal, West Berkshire (2022) by Ian Blake
‘Urban Reflection’ (Marseille’s Vieux Port, 2023) by Peter Williams
‘Garden Cabinet’ (Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, 2023) by Peter Williams
‘Is it yellow enough?’ (Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh, 2019) by Ziyaad Oozeer
keyboard_arrow_up To top