London – More than 7,000 images competed for the second edition of the Monaco Prince Albert Foundation’s environmental photography award, with works depicting beauty, solutions to reverse the effects of human action on nature, as well as desolate scenes.
The winning photo of the 2022 edition was taken in Sri Lanka, showing an elephant unable to resist ingested plastic in a landfill.
Divided into five categories, the competition brought together images of nature and living things, many of which are in danger of extinction. Check out the winners.
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“Tears”, first prize
The award jury described the photograph taken by Easa Lebbe Muhammed Jamsith as “heartbreaking”. He won the Human x Nature category and was also named best of the year in the competition.
The photo shows an elephant’s final moments at a dump in Oluvil, Sri Lanka. The esophagus of a female elephant was blocked by daily ingestion of polyethylene waste from packaging mixed with leftover food scraps.
Even after three days of treatment by on-site veterinarians, he did not survive as removal was not possible.
Jasmith reported that the animal kept its body bent in pain “like a child in pain” and looked at it with tears in its eyes as he approached the photograph, hence giving the image its name.
According to the vets, this was also the seventh death of an elephant in the litter. Elephants and other animals, such as dogs, cats, and birds, die almost on an empty stomach without eating, as plastics and other indigestible materials accumulate and interfere with the digestion of food.
For those who love to study, it is worth following the next steps of Jamsith. In addition to the €5,000 (R$27k) prize, the University of Ecuador won a trip to the Amazon Research Station to shoot a documentary in the heart of the jungle.
Audience Selection
Mathieu with Girlfriends, ‘Black and Wild’
In the online vote for the Monaco environmental photography competition, the public’s favorite photograph was a black and white portrait of a gorilla by Mathieu Courdesses from France. The image was taken in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.
Award highlighted aerial, sky and sea photographs
In addition to the photographs selected by the award jury and the public online, the jury chose the best in five categories.
arctic wonders
Photographs showing landscapes, wildlife and local communities in polar regions (Arctic and Antarctica).
1st place – Kirstin Jones with ‘The Big Journey’
Three gentoo penguins, named the fastest swimming birds in the world by scientists, cross a snowy hill to reach their colony.
They are listed as “endangered” as the population declines due to factors such as loss. habitat, human disturbance and the impact of fisheries on the species they feed on.
2nd place – Yuri Pritisk with ‘Rio Vivo’
In the old bed of the Mari Taiga River in Russia, the water never freezes. The blue color that stands out in the snow gives it a layer of salty mud that settles to the bottom of the lake that feeds the stream.
3rd place – Vasily Iakovlev with ‘Searching for Gerda’
A cave in Lake Baikal, Russia.
under the canopy
The beauty of the flora and fauna that make up the forest ecosystem and the life of indigenous communities in northern, temperate and tropical forests.
1st place – Haikun Liang with ‘Glowworm’
The image showing the light emitted by bioluminescent insects was taken in Guangdon, China.
2nd place – Panos Laskakis, ‘Mundo Macro!’
In Greece, the photographer took a photo. mushroom forest, where “life grows and a gorgeous fragile world awaits us to explore”.
3rd Place – Jari Heikkinen with ‘The Great Owl at the Full Moon’
Framed by a full moon, a great gray owl enjoys a birch forest in Finland.
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below the water surface
Richness of waterscapes and ocean-dwelling species
1st place – Yung-Sen Wu with ‘Pacific Red Sockeye’
With the image of the movement of water separating the land from the river, the multicolored scene highlights a pair of sockeye fish, a type of salmon.
2nd place – ‘Catfish Stream’ by Gabriel Barathieu
The graphic shows a school of catfish on Mayotte, a French island off the coast of Mozambique. The effect was achieved using a strobe flash that fires during image capture, creating lines that accentuate movement.
3rd place – Alex Mostarda with ‘Body Models’
The photo was taken at the Bunaken Marine Park in Indonesia. Although the species is a green turtle, the photographer chose to paint it in black and white to highlight the designs on the turtle’s charge.
human x nature
Images depicting the contradictory relationship between man and nature and the negative impact of human activities on nature environment.
The first place in the category was the image of the elephant in the dump, which again won the first prize.
The other two winners show equally sad and worrying scenes.
2nd place – Tran Van Hong with ‘Disaster’
Shot by a Vietnamese photographer, the image is reminiscent of the iconic image that changed the course of the Vietnam war, showing the horror of a girl escaping a napalm gas attack.
Fifty years later, forest fires in a dump are threatening.
3rd place – Majid Hojati with ‘Seca’
The image was taken in October 2021 in Iran’s Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province.
The exuberant nature of the past gave way to dry land. Plate says:
“I must remember not to do anything against the law of the ‘earth’”
Towards a sustainable future
Images highlighting globally applied efforts, actions and solutions to build a more sustainable world and more harmonious relationships between man and nature.
1st place – Simone Tramonte with ‘Transição Net-Zero (II)’
Located in Ostellato, Italy, the hydroponic greenhouse covers 31 hectares and is the largest in southern Europe. inside, 220 km of low-power LED lights enable food production during the winter months, allowing harvesting throughout the year.
Greenhouse operations are based on circular economy principles. At the end of their life cycle, the plants become the fuel for the biogas plant that powers the greenhouse. The tomato plant is grown in a controlled environment, protected from external pollutants, so there is no need for herbicides. Thanks to hydroponic cultivation, land use has been reduced to just one-tenth of conventional agriculture and water use has been reduced by 70%.
2nd place – ‘Garden of Nemo’ with Giacomo d’Orlando
Located in the metropolitan area of Genoa, Sant’Olcese, Nemo Garden is the world’s first underwater greenhouse system. Its aim is to find an alternative farming method for the future to neutralize the pressure of climate change on the planet. Different species such as basil, tomatoes, strawberries and beans are grown in their biosphere.
The photo shows Luca Gamberini, son of the creator of the project, picking basil in one of the glass globes. Basil was chosen as a model plant for the research. Phytochemical, physiological and micromorphological properties compared to plants of the same variety grown in terrestrial environments.
3rd place – Stoicescu Ioana ‘The sea is not a dump!’
A team of ex-harpoon fishermen decided to hunt marine litter instead of fish and run awareness campaigns.
this This photo was taken during a major underwater cleanup in the Côte d’Azur, France, in March.
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