Announcing the winners of the 2021 Your River Lea photography competition!

Cody Dock’s 2021 Our River Lea photo competition focuses on every aspect of the Lea River’s rich tapestry. It provides an annual archive that captures its history during this current period of rapid change.

This year’s entrants excelled themselves, their photos explore the heritage, community, wildlife and shopping trollies of our River Lea. Our judges have selected twelve of the photographs to illustrate our 2022 Cody Dock Calendar and all the photographs are featured in our Autumn Exhibition which you can see at the dock until December 18th.

Keep your eye’s peeled and your cameras to hand, if you missed this years competition there is always next year:

Your River Lea Competition 2022: How to enter

Deadline for entries: TBC (November 2022)
Themes: heritage, community, waterways & wildlife
Number of images per applicant: maximum of 3

Image files must be 300 dpi. They must not include watermarks, borders, or signatures. Black and white images are eligible.

Images can be submitted either via hard copy or a digital files.

If you have any other questions, please send us an email or call 020 74 73 04 29

Digital Files

Please upload your photos in the WeTransfer site and send them to [email protected]. Don’t forget to write a confirmation email with Cody Dock Photo Competition in the subject line and send it to the same email address.

Hard Copy

Please send your photos to

Cody Dock Photo Competition
Gasworks Dock Partnership
Cody Dock, 11c South Crescent, Canning Town
London E16 4TL

Write your name, address, day/evening phone number and email address on the back of each photograph.  Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

  • All images submitted must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other photographic competition. The image must have been created in the past three years, maximum.
  • By submitting photographs to this competition, you’re granting the charity Gasworks Dock Partnership unconditional rights to exhibit and reproduce your images within its own calendar, publications, advertising materials and social media.
  • Unless otherwise indicated, applicants will be notified via email if they have a winning entry. The exhibition will be free and all proceeds from the calendar will be spent on GDP’s educational and environmental programmes.