Grant Trouville's photo "The Embrace" won the 2017 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year Prize. Alex Ellinghausen won the Nikon-Walkley Portrait Prize for "Manus Torture" and the Nikon-Walkley Contemporary Australian Daily Life Prize for "Breastfeeding in the Senate". Several photographers including Alex Ellinghausen, Kate Geraghty, and Andrew Quilty were named finalists for Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year.