Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The Australian National Maritime Museum is displaying the 60th edition of this prestigious photography contest, with 100 finalists selected from 59,228 entries.
Overview
The 60th edition of Wildlife Photographer of the Year is winging its way to Sydney from London's Natural History Museum, bringing along 100 images selected from 59,228 entries across 117 countries and territories.
This year's winner is Shane Gross, a Canadian marine conservation photojournalist, for his work The Swarm of Life. This stunning image captures the mesmerising underwater world of western toad tadpoles — now a near-threatened species due to the widespread destruction of their habitat.
Winner of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Germany's Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas. His image Life Under Dead Wood depicts slime mould alongside a teeny-tiny springtail. It's made up of a combination of 36 images, each with a different focus, taken in rapid succession.
Also in the exhibition are three images from Australian photographers. See Jannico Kelk's Hope for the Ninu, winner of the Animals in their Environment category, which portrays a greater bilby (ninu) in a fenced reserve. Then check out A Diet of Deadly Plastic by Justin Gilligan, which won Oceans: The Bigger Picture category for his mosaic of 403 pieces of plastic found inside the digestive tract of a dead flesh-footed shearwater. And don't miss Matthew Smith's Under the Waterline, which won the Underwater category for its depiction of a leopard seal beneath Antarctic ice.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is showing at the Australian National Maritime Museum between Thursday, May 15–Sunday, October 19.
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