Christchurch Photo Hunt 2025
Each year Christchurch City Libraries runs the Photo Hunt to gather photographs from across the community, along with the unique stories of their creators.
Photo Hunt 2025's theme is Building Place - evolving communities.
Entries are open from Wednesday 1 October to Friday 31 October.
Photo Hunt gives you the chance to share your photographs, both physical or digital, historical and contemporary, that show the changing and evolving places and communities we are a part of.
Here in Ōtautahi-Christchurch and Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula we have many stories, from Ngāi Tahu and other iwi, European settlers, Pasifika and people of many ethnic and cultural backgrounds who have made this place home. If you have photos representing our physical and social development over time, contribute your photos and stories to be in to win Riverside vouchers!
How the 2025 Christchurch Photo Hunt works
Welcome to the 2025 Christchurch Photo Hunt. Here is how you can contribute your digital images to the Photo Hunt:
- Upload your photos to discoverywall.nz;
- Submit your photos through our photo hunt entry form.
There is no longer a process for dropping your photos at libraries. If you have physical photos you want to scan, you can:
- Come along to a Digitise Your Photos event at selected libraries during October;
- Scan your photos at Auahatanga | Creativity at Tūranga or at Te Hāpua Halswell Centre. Learn more about how to access the photo scanners.
Please note that bound, framed or mounted photos are unable to be scanned at the Digitise Your Photos events. This is because the scanner feeds through photos rather than being flatbed as with some other scanners. If you would like to contribute any of these types of photos please contact us directly about Photo Hunt 2025.
Each image is entered into a category of People, Places or Both (depending on what the main subject of the image is).
Entries will be made available on the Discovery Wall and discoverywall.nz and will also form a crucial part of the permanent heritage collections housed on the libraries’ digital heritage platform Canterbury Stories.
Online entry form
Submit your photos through our online entry form.
Each year Christchurch City Libraries runs the Photo Hunt to gather photographs from across the community, along with the unique stories of their creators.
Photo Hunt 2025's theme is Building Place - evolving communities.
Entries are open from Wednesday 1 October to Friday 31 October.
Photo Hunt gives you the chance to share your photographs, both physical or digital, historical and contemporary, that show the changing and evolving places and communities we are a part of.
Here in Ōtautahi-Christchurch and Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula we have many stories, from Ngāi Tahu and other iwi, European settlers, Pasifika and people of many ethnic and cultural backgrounds who have made this place home. If you have photos representing our physical and social development over time, contribute your photos and stories to be in to win Riverside vouchers!
How the 2025 Christchurch Photo Hunt works
Welcome to the 2025 Christchurch Photo Hunt. Here is how you can contribute your digital images to the Photo Hunt:
- Upload your photos to discoverywall.nz;
- Submit your photos through our photo hunt entry form.
There is no longer a process for dropping your photos at libraries. If you have physical photos you want to scan, you can:
- Come along to a Digitise Your Photos event at selected libraries during October;
- Scan your photos at Auahatanga | Creativity at Tūranga or at Te Hāpua Halswell Centre. Learn more about how to access the photo scanners.
Please note that bound, framed or mounted photos are unable to be scanned at the Digitise Your Photos events. This is because the scanner feeds through photos rather than being flatbed as with some other scanners. If you would like to contribute any of these types of photos please contact us directly about Photo Hunt 2025.
Each image is entered into a category of People, Places or Both (depending on what the main subject of the image is).
Entries will be made available on the Discovery Wall and discoverywall.nz and will also form a crucial part of the permanent heritage collections housed on the libraries’ digital heritage platform Canterbury Stories.
Online entry form
Submit your photos through our online entry form.
Prizes
The 2025 prizes:
- $100 Riverside Market vouchers for the overall winner
- $50 Riverside Market vouchers for the People category winner
- $50 Riverside Market vouchers for the Places category winner
Christchurch Heritage Festival: 11 to 27 October 2025
Christchurch Photo Hunt 2024 - The Winners
Listen in
Amy talks to Digital Curation Librarian, Sarah Snelling about Christchurch Photo Hunt 2024.
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2025 Photo Hunt postcards
Pick up a postcard at the library. Collect the set.
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