The POTY or Photographer Of The Year is the IMAGES club competition where each member may enter one or two photos to suit a monthly theme. Judging is done by all members in a secret ballot. Winners are announced per month and scores are aggregated to decide the Photographer of The Year at the end of the club season. There is an additional award where the monthly winners are entered into a competition for the Photo Of The Year.
Download our POTY COMPETITION rules to see all the details.
POTY YEARBOOKS
First introduced in 2005, the POTY continues to be a regular feature of the club’s activities with the first book appearing in 2011.
The annual POTY books contain the Top 5 photos for each month. See Preview, below, to browse the pages of a book and click on the icon to order a book from the Blurb website. The latest POTY books are also available as downloads: POTY Book 2022-23 and POTY Book 2023-24.
| Preview | Order | Photographer of the Year | Photo of the Year by: |
| 2023-2024 |  | Theo Mahieu | Michael Selwood |
| 2022-2023 |  | John Stratton | John Stratton |
| 2021-2022 |  | Lex Scheers | Susanne Engelhardt |
| 2020-2021 |  | Lex Scheers | John Stratton |
| 2019-2020 |  | Lex Scheers | Roberto Francini |
| 2018-2019 |  | Timco van Brummelen | Susanne Engelhardt |
| 2017-2018 |  | Heather Oortman-Bridge | Cristina Baroncelli |
| 2016-2017 |  | Graham Fleet | Heather Oortman-Bridge |
| 2015-2016 |  | Kim Bybjerg | Lex Scheers |
| 2014-2015 | – | Heather Oortman-Bridge | Joop Peerboom |
| 2013-2014 | – | Heather Oortman-Bridge | – |
| 2012-2013 |  | – | – |
| 2011-2012 |  | – | – |
| 2010-2011 |  | – | – |
GALLERY OF POTY YEARBOOK FRONT COVERS
To see the themes for each month of all the previous years, visit the POTY Archive Page.