Individual award
The Pregnancy and Birth Photographer of the Year honours a photographer who has significantly contributed or impacted the Australian surrogacy or donation community.
The nominee must meet the eligibility criteria to participate in the award. The Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards aims to celebrate the contributions and impacts of people and businesses to the Australian surrogacy and donation community fairly and equitably. Each award has its eligibility criteria that must be met.
Eligibility criteria
Any individual photographer, whether professional or not, who has captured the moments of a surrogacy pregnancy or birth.
The nomination should focus on advocacy, support, education, or community engagement rather than professional skill.
The nominee must ordinarily be based in Australia and have contributed to or impacted significantly the Australian surrogacy or donation community.
Nominees will be notified after nominations have closed to accept their nomination.
Judges will decide the finalists and winner of the award from nominee accepted nominations.
The public will vote for nominee accepted nominations on the Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards website. Voting does not impact the finalists and winner selection process for this award. The nominee with the highest number of votes, wins the Amplifier Award.
What you need to know about judging…
- Nominee accepted nominations will be judged by an independent panel of judges and shortlisted as a finalist. Not all nominees will become finalists and the number of finalists will depend on the quality and quantity of the nominations.
- The judging of nominees, finalists and winners will be based on the information provided by the nominee in their nomination acceptance.
- Judges will consider each nominee’s contribution and impact to the surrogacy and donation community and will focus on advocacy, support, education, or community engagement rather than professional skill or clinical capability.
- Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards reserves the right to transfer a nominee into another award category if it believes the nominee would be more appropriately assessed in that category.
Nominations open: Sunday 7 June 2026
Nominations close: Sunday 16 August 2026
Public votes open: Monday 6 September 2026
Public votes close: Thursday 8 October 2026
Finalist notification: Monday 12 October 2026
Awards event: Saturday 24 October 2026