Your Canon Event and 20th Edition Canon PhotoMarathon 2026

Your Canon Event, an experimental maker festival, has hands-on workshops, experiential play zone, and community-led activities spanning hobbies such as a botany, tabletop gaming and miniature model painting. 

“With ‘Your Canon Event’, we set out to redefine what a modern maker festival could look like, and reflect how creators engage with imaging today,” said Too Kok Yong, Head of Singapore Operations Group, Canon Singapore. “We seek to create a collaborative space where Singapore’s vibrant creator communities could celebrate their distinct passions and engage in visual storytelling, in the spirit of kyosei—living and working together for the common good. Seeing so many creators connect these diverse hobbies with our PowerShot V Series and EOS V Series, alongside the incredible milestones of our 20th Canon PhotoMarathon, underscores our commitment to empowering creators at every stage of their journey.” 

At Your Canon Event, the festival programme consisted of hands-on stations, from postcard making Play Lab to craft stations, designed to show how imaging technology fits into everyday creative hobbies. Attendees also got the opportunity to experience first hand with Canon’s compact and agile EOS/PowerShot V series cameras that seamlessly integrates into specialised lifestyle workflows.

Canon PhotoMarathon 2026 – Photography Category

Here are the three themes for the photography category at Canon PhotoMarathon 2026. Just for fun, sharing what I shot and submitted during the competition. 

Theme 1: Vibrant

Theme 2: Value

Theme 3: Voice

Of course, I took a few different photos of each theme before deciding which photo to submit for the competition. 

Canon PhotoMarathon 2026 – Video Category

A brand new segment, the inaugural video category, the video storytelling competition that adds a new dimension to Canon PhotoMarathon in its landmark 20th edition in 2026. Considering how the media landscape and media consumption has changed so much over the past decade, video visual storytelling has become a common feature of people’s life, daily living, work and content creation. 

Have a look at Canon PhotoMarathon 2026 – Video Competition Winners on YouTube! 

Youth Category

There was an amazing turnout in the Youth Category, specially designated for creators aged 25 years and below, a standout highlight for this 20th milestone edition. This category showcased a rising wave of Gen Z and younger talent bringing fresh perspectives to the competition’s themes – including the dedicated video category on Kyosei, that challenge participants to capture stories of community, sustainability, and integrity  that defines today’s youth. 

Giving Back to Society

APSN, a social service agency that supports individuals with mild intellectual disability, has a long-standing partnership with Canon Singapore that dates back to 2006. They returned to participate in Canon PhotoMarathon 2026. 

This partnership includes specially designed workshops to sharpen APSN students’ technical skills, loan of cameras and organising guided photo outings led by Canon Singapore staff volunteers. 

This continued participation reflects Canon Singapore and APSN shared commitment to make photography more accessible and creating opportunities for youths with mild intellectual disability to express their creativity.

Over my 12 years (including 2026 edition) of Canon PhotoMarathon participation, I have seen APSN participating and being a part of this photography competition. Their participation may not be as well known to the public or Canon PhotoMarathon attendees. However, I feel they deserve more mention and recognition on Canon Singapore giving back to society with APSN, using photography and visual storytelling as a medium and platform to tell their stories.

For more information on Canon PhotoMarathon 2026 event highlights, and winning submissions, please visit Canon PhotoMarathon 2026 | Canon Singapore.

Reflecting My 12th Year in Canon PhotoMarathon

In this special 20 years milestone year 2026 celebrating my TGH Photography and Travel portal/blog, as well as 20th edition of Canon PhotoMarathon, it was also my 12th year participating in Canon PhotoMarathon in 2026. Here are my (pretty lengthy) personal thoughts and feelings from my 12th year participating in Canon PhotoMarathon.

First and foremost, going to take a quick time machine trip back in time, I didn’t join Canon PhotoMarathon when they first started in 2003, my maiden Canon PhotoMarathon participation was in 2008, followed by 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

12 years and counting, I have experienced and seen for myself how this photography competition has changed over the decades from local Singapore market to other ASEAN countries, from camera technology to connectivity with apps and devices. The outreach and approach has also changed along with how the media landscape, social media/internet and technology evolved over the decades. 

However, the core spirit remains the same, the love and fun for photography, in a short and fast paced timeline constraints powered by three different photography themes, pushing our creativity and photography planning to its limits.

I didn’t win any prize in my 12 years of participation, it’s alright though, even though I would love to win some prizes! Instead, I gained intangible and priceless stuff, such as the many friendships over the years with different groups of photography friends, such as my own photography kakis in the early blogging days, former EOS World Community Ambassadors group that I was part of, the Instagram community and other photographer friends met along the way (it’s like an annual event to meet and catch up. Maybe I should take selfies for memories sake). This 20th edition year was a great catch up with some of Canon Singapore folks that I haven’t met for a while, and also PhotoSphere SG, one of the sponsors for Canon PhotoMarathon. 

Even though it’s my 12th year participating, this marks one of my visual storytelling adventures highlight in my TGH Photography and Travel 20 years milestone celebrations/achievements, together with the milestone 20th edition Canon PhotoMarathon in 2026.

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“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.” 

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.  

Your Canon Event – Key Information and Registration

• Event: Your Canon Event
• Dates: Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th July 2026
• Time: 11am to 8pm daily
• Venue: Urban Park @ Guoco Tower, Singapore
• Admission: Free
• Canon PhotoMarathon registration: https://snapshot.asia.canon/cpm2026/sg/en
• For photography workshops and activity stations, register at Your Canon Event

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