Winners of the 2023 International Landscape Photographer of the Year

Cathartic by Matt Meisenheimer, United States | 3rd place (Portfolio)

The winners of the 10th International Landscape Photographer of the Year have been announced.

Before we get to the photographs, a quick explainer on the categories. There are two main awards – Photographer of the Year (portfolio of 4 images) and Photograph of the Year (single image). Within these categories a first, second and third place are up for grabs. Then, there are 5 special subject awards, which just have one winner each (Black and White, Aerial, Snow and Ice, Seascape, Desert). Let’s get to the winners!

Australian Tony Hewitt won the International Landscape Photographer of the Year for 2023, with his abstract portfolio of Western Australian tidal areas. Take a look at his four winning images below:

A Land Within by Tony Hewitt, Australia | 1st place (Portfolio)

Outlier by Tony Hewitt, Australia | 1st place (Portfolio)

Floralis by Tony Hewitt, Australia | 1st place (Portfolio)

Aurum by Tony Hewitt, Australia | 1st place (Portfolio)

The winner of the Photograph of the Year went to Blake Randall, Canada, with a beautiful photo from Abraham Lake, Alberta.

Fire and Water by Blake Randall, Canada | 1st place (Single shot)

Flames#5 by Peter Meyer, Australia | 2nd place (Single shot)

Tree of life by Isabella Tabacchi, Italy | 3rd place (Single shot)

Next up are the five special subject awards. To remind you, these are: Black & White, Aerial, Snow & Ice, Seascape and Desert.

Morning Light by Jim Guerard, United States | Black and White Award

Arc by Casey McCallister, United States | Aerial Award

Austfonna Ice Cap by Thomas Vijayan, Canada | Snow and Ice Award

Turned to Stone by Ciaran Willmore, Ireland | Seascape Award

Arita by John Seager, United Kingdom | Desert Award

This year’s award winners are clearly well deserved! That being said, ILPOTY recognise the Top 101 photos submitted, as they say, “once you reach a certain level of brilliance, is it really possible to definitively say one photograph is better than another?” Therefore, Lens Front have also highlighted our favourite ‘non-winners’ from the Top 101 in a post here.

For more information about The International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, you can visit their website here.

Sam King

Lens Front Founder - Sam is a freelance web developer and amateur photographer. Currently splitting his time between the UK and France, for the last 2 years Sam has been travelling full time, visiting countries such as Bosnia, Serbia and Australia, and even spent a month in Wadi Rum, Jordan, where he lived and worked with Bedouin tribesmen in the desert.