Images of Industrial Heritage: ICOMOS UK Photography Competition 2026

ICOMOS UK are inviting mebers of the public to enter their second photography competition, which this year is on the theme, ‘Images of Industrial Heritage’. The photography competition, which was launched at ICOMOS UK’s Industrial Heritage event at the canal museum in London last month, will celebrate built and living heritage around the world.

To mark the launch of the ICOMOS UK Industrial Heritage Committee, this competition will explore changing approaches to and perceptions of industrial heritage, and reflect on how they are preserved, celebrated, and debated. There are four categories that images can be submitted for, which aim to record, celebrate, or pose questions about the variety of industrial heritage and its impact on people:

  • Machinery – working or redundant engines, equipment, production lines and processes
  • Buildings & Structures – from the monumental to the fragmentary
  • Landscapes and their transformation by the presence or disappearance of industrial activity and processes
  • People and community – making, conserving, taking part, moving away

Detail on how to enter the competion, the deadline for which is the 1st September, can be found here:  Photographic Competition.

Preserved gasholder. Image courtesy of ICOMOS UK.