Celebrating 20th Edition of Canon PhotoMarathon with Your Canon Event

Canon Singapore announced Your Canon Event, a three day event celebrating creativity, making and play, coming together from 23rd to 25th July 2026 at Urban Park @ Guoco Tower, Singapore. This event brings together the first of its kind maker festival event across two days, along with the landmark 20th edition of Canon PhotoMarathon on 25th July 2026, celebrating over two decades of this photography competition in Singapore.

“The 20th edition of the Canon PhotoMarathon is a significant milestone that belongs to Singapore’s photography community as much as it belongs to Canon,” said Too Kok Yong, Head of Singapore Operations Group, Canon Singapore. “Guided by our philosophy of kyosei—living and working together for the common good—we are proud to expand this celebration to the wider community. Your Canon Event is an invitation to anyone who makes things seriously, in whatever form it takes. We hope to bring together creators and makers from all walks of life to inspire one another and discover that Canon has a place in their world too.”

Your Canon Event 23-25July 2026 (Image Courtesy of Canon Singapore)

Delighting You In All Ways: Your Canon Event – Come Play

Your Canon Event is built around the idea that Canon belongs in the world of every person who creates things, not jut limited to photographers and filmmakers. This event opens the doors of Canon’s creative universe to artists, content creators, crafters, gamers, families and anyone who has a serious passion in whatever they do.

Your Canon Event – A Festival for Every kind of Maker

On days one and two of Your Canon Event, Urban Park @ Guoco Tower is transformed into an open, free access maker festival running daily from 11am to 8pm.

Workshops at Your Canon Event

Check out the workshops led by some of Singapore’s most passionate hobbyist communities.

Soilboy will host Kokedama and plant repotting, styling and photography workshops
TableMinis will introduce participants to miniature painting and Dungeons & Dragons
Marian Carmel will lead a scrapbooking workshop for those looking to document their memories in a tactile and creative way

For pet photography lovers, there is a dedicated pet photography workshop for animal lovers on how to capture their companions at their best. Selected sessions are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and may require a small registration fee.

Beyond the workshops at Your Canon Event

Beyond the workshops, there are four activity stations that will run across both festival days. Visitors can collect one stamp at each station before redeeming one random collectible card per stamp at a designated redemption counter.

The cards are available in 5 designs of varying rarity and visitors who collect all four stamps will receive an additional 5th card. Those who complete the full set of 5 designs will stand a chance to win a Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III.

Guided photowalks have also been planned, there will be Canon cameras and printers available throughout the space for visitors to pick up and use, with crew members on hand to guide rather demonstrate.

Canon PhotoMarathon – The 20th Edition

Year 2026 marks the 20th edition of Canon PhotoMarathon in Singapore, after over two decades it sent out photographers into the streets of Singapore with a theme and time limit. On 25th July 2026, the festival ground gives way to the main stage for Canon PhotoMarathon.

Canon PhotoMarathon is open to all cameras and all brands. Three themes will be revealed on the day itself, each theme has an allocated two hour window to shoot and submit. Over $50,000 worth of Canon gear will be available as prizes across the Open and Student categories.

New video category for 20th Canon PhotoMarathon

There is something new for the 20th Canon PhotoMarathon, a video category, open for the first time in Canon PhotoMarathon history, with filming on smartphones welcomed.

The theme for the video category will be announced at 0001hrs on 23rd July 2026. Participants have until 2359hrs on the 23rd July 2026 to shoot, edit and submit their entry. Winners will be announced on 25th July 2026, the same time as the photography category at the event site.

My 12th Year participating in Canon PhotoMarathon Singapore

I have registered for 20th Canon PhotoMarathon Singapore 2026, this would be my 12th year participating in this photography competition! Looking back at my years of participation, starting off in 2008, followed by 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024 and 2025.

While I didn’t win any prizes during my past 11 years of participation in Canon PhotoMarathon Singapore, I would try to sign up for the competition when my schedule allows, go and have fun in this photography competition, meet up and catch up with fellow photographers at the event.