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SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE

Beaker Street’s Science Photography Prize invites people to showcase the wonders of Lutruwita/Tasmania and the Southern Ocean/Antarctica — a region which is teeming with science — and scientists. Finalist images are displayed at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery during Beaker Street Festival each August.

2026 Finalists

All 2026 Finalists

Alex Wheeler
A Natural Wetsuit

Amber Summers
Trust Fall

Brett Guy
The Holy Grail

Chelsea Bell
Alpine Overture

Madi McLatchie
Endangered

Mandy Cotman
Living With The Dead

Nathan Waterhouse
Shy

Shawn Lawrence
Coming Home

Deni Cupit
Just Another Bioluminescent Tantrum…

Francisco Albergoli
My Home Is Being Eaten

Jenny Schorta
Eddystone Rock

Ryan Shan
Ephemeral Blue

2025 Finalists

Lunch time

Liken the lichen

The Magic Rat and His Slick Machine

Slime moulds: Overlooked and underestimated

Aerodynamic attraction

Inner terrain

Crystalline Forest

Milky Way over Waterworks Reserve

Your Hand in Mine

PhotosyntheSlug

Sea Spider

2024 Finalists

Glimpse into the endangered red handfish’s unique beginnings

Eddies of Time

Reviving Giants: Hope for Tasmania’s Kelp Forests

Mite on bracken

Welcome to Dreamland

Ocean warriors

Ruby Bonnets

Aurora Dreams

Tannin Tarn

When Night Unfurls its Splendour

Milky Way over Hobart City

Moments in the Mirror

2023 Finalists

Skeletonema

Blackwood Fractals

Milky Way over Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory

Ancient folds

Cider

Pixies Parasols – Another Perspective

BlueTears

Death of a pest

Bumblebee Blues

Night mapping in King Island – Looking for tungsten ore!

Future Energy

Graceful Giants: A Mesmerising Dance with the Majestic Humpback Whale

2022 Finalists

Sphagnum moss with explosive sporophytes ready to pop

Water Sphere

Aurora Australis

Feeling a Little Deflated…

Ghost busters

kunanyi Aurora

Traces of Gondwana

Probing the chill

Birth of a beautiful invader

Aurora Stepping Stones

Fallen Stars

Frozen Fungi

2021 Finalists

Resting Dragon

Life in Light

The Platypus

Pixie’s Parasol

Winter Reflections

Honeybee

Winter Night

Rippling through the shallows

Binalong

Welcome Swallow

Devil’s Claw

Polyzosteria yingina

2020 Finalists

Untitled

RUST

Leap Day Lights

Riding the Antarctic Jellyfish Bus

Interstellar Attraction

Gondwana rainforest

On The Tiles

Cribraria cancellata

The little one said Roll Over

Little Pollinator

The Feet

Into the Sea of Blue

2019 Finalists

Nannochorista: small insect, big role in biogeography

Aurora Australis over Tessellated Pavement – Tasman Peninsula

A shag at sunset

Deep Sea Defences: Spiny Stone Crab (Lithodes murrayi)

Fire behind Mount Roland Tasmania, towards sunset

A new normal?

Ghost Mushroom

After the Fire, The Sentinels from Wedge River

How seals are revolutionising oceanography

Southern Ocean Swell

Galactic Ghost

Jade Iceberg with Lone Adélie Penguin

2018 Finalists

Aurora Australis and Milky Way at Twilight

Banking against time

Rhapsody in Blue

Death Claw – roadkill rigor mortis

D’Entrecasteaux Channel Aurora

A remarkable wave

Other-worldly

Clapotis Wave, New Zealand

Horse, Equus Caballus

Diving with Dragons

Rocktopus

Wave of Wonder

2017 Finalists

Plankton Chronicles of Climate Change

Public Astronomy Night

Bioluminescence

Super heroes of the forest

An obituary to Perameles Gunnii (Eastern Barred Bandicoot)

Short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus

Aseroe rubra’ – Stinkhorn Fungus

Scale Reference

Pixie’s Parasol

Spike

DFTD

Bioluminescent Phytoplankton under the Milky Way, South Arm, Tasmania