This year's awards ceremony will be held in London in September.  All recipients of this year's awards will be announced on the night.  Entry is strictly by ticket only.  A limited amount of tickets are available from Jo Macdonald, Awards Manager.  For further information, please contact Jo on 01225 325721 or jo@rps.org.

The Society's Annual Awards are offered to individuals who have made significant contributions to the art and science of photography. The Society has adopted a wide definition of photography which refers to the art and science of the recording of light or other radiation on any medium on which an image is produced or from which any image may by any means be produced.

Award nominations are considered by a committee headed by the immediate Past President - for the 2012 Awards this will be Rosemary Wilman HonFRPS - and recommendations are put to The Society's Council for confirmation.

The Society has made Awards to photographers and those in photography since 1878 when its Progress medal was first awarded. There are now fifteen categories (see list left each of which includes an historical record of winners). In addition The Society also awards Honorary Fellowships of The Society – an honour it first bestowed in 1895. Recent Award winners have included photographers Terry O’Neill, Albert Watson, Annie Leibovitz and Martin Parr, and individuals Philippe Garner, Sir David Attenborough and Tim Berners-Lee, alongside scientists and museum and gallery curators.

In 2010 The Royal Photographic Society announced a major sponsorship agreement between The Society/The Macallan as sponsor of The Society’s Annual Awards Ceremony starting in 2011 and run run for an initial three years. The Macallan is a global luxury brand with an awesome pedigree, The Macallan takes a keen interest in photography. Its Masters of Photography series, inaugurated with a portfolio by Rankin (Waddell) HonFRPS, and continuing with The Society’s 2010 Centenary Medallist Albert Watson HonFRPS, highlights the company's interest in the medium.