The WineGB photography competition goes to public voting
Time to have your say!
The judges have had their initial say in scoring the 2026 WineGB Photography competition entries and this week marks the launch of the competition’s public voting period.
Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the seven shortlisted photographs for each final category every Thursday at 5pm.
Categories
April 23rd – Vineyard Management
April 30th – Winemaking
May 7th – Harvest
May 14th – Sustainability
May 21st – Holidays
May 28th – Cellar Door
June 4th – Teams and Workers
June 8th – Bottles and Glasses
June 15th – Video
Keep an eye on the @WineGB Facebook and Instagram pages, where you’ll have the chance to take on the role of a WineGB Awards Judge by commenting the name of your favourite image from each shortlist.
You can cast your votes in each category until 20th June, the start of English Wine Week, where the votes will be counted and the top two from each category will go back to the judges to decide an overall winner!
Criteria
So far, the judges have been scoring photographs based on these five criteria:
- Quality of image and usability
- Representation of category
- Representation of UK wine industry
- WineGB brand cohesion
- Professional personal opinion
Our head photography judge Alex Turner is a photographer and journalist who has worked with the Guardian, The New York Times, and the BBC. He said:
“It was a pleasure to judge this competition. There is clearly a great deal of talent on display, and it was challenging to shortlist from such a strong field of entries. I enjoyed looking through our photographers’ lenses for a unique view of the many British winemaking teams and vineyards that are represented. I look forward to seeing what the public think of our shortlisted categories and images.”
This year, for the first time, we have an external photography judging panel made up of industry professionals. The rest of the panel includes:
MJ
A lifestyle, food, travel, and interiors photographer with over a decade of experience and wide range of clients with his work published nationwide.
Emma Penman
Responsible for the UK’s largest range of domestic wines through her work at Waitrose and studied photography before her career in wine.
Jodie Newman
A graphic designer with over twenty years’ experience specialising in wine branding, label design, and packaging.
Rebecca Pitcairn
A journalist, editor, and host of The English Wine Diaries podcast. Specialising in English and Welsh wine, her work appears in leading regional and national publications.
Galia Pike
An artist, designer and Marketing Director at Westwell Wines. She brings a cross-disciplinary approach to wine through the intersection of creativity and viticulture.
Kirsty Rushby
Recently joined WineGB as Head of Marketing and Communications after eleven years at the Co-op where part of her role was responsibility for leading the PR and profile strategy for the wine category.
Ed Wright
Head of Design at Barlow & Co., he creates award-winning wine branding and packaging, including work on the WineGB identity.
Emma Rix
A passionate advocate for sustainability and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and is responsible for WineGB’s branding, visuals and social media presence.
Zara Cassidy
A Buyer at Sainsbury’s, starting her career at Majestic Wine. She has been recognised in multiple industry lists and is an experience wine judge.