Photography Awards 2020/21
I’ll be honest I’m not one to have the time to enter awards usually, but during Covid-19 lockdown I thought I might, inspired by all the fantastic free online photography talks I was signing up to.
It was a great time to get to catch up with all the years of images I had shot, and I popped a handful of them into competitions. It was exciting to get a couple of bites.
The image of the Crabeater Seals ‘Napping in the ice’, Antarctica, was shortlisted for the prestigious Earth Photo Award in the category: Climate of Change.
This image is now on display at the Royal Geographical Society, London in the main corridor, though it got cropped to aspect ration portrait, and until it was noticed, it was hung upside down! I love that it is in a place I am so connected too.
The ‘Napping in the ice’ image was also selected the winner of the Wild World Winter photography competition, and was Highly Commended in the Shackleton Leica Capture the Extreme 2021
Doubly lucky another image submitted won overall, so I received a new Leica camera and a box of toasty warm expedition and knitwear from Shackleton Clothing.
Circling back to the free online photography talks going on during covid - it was so amazing, generous, and inspiring, that so many well known photographers opened windows onto their practices, projects and the mystery business end too. The openness and access for which I’m very grateful.
My Adelie penguin and Harry, who we dressed in early 20th century explorer’s clothing, on a shoot in Antarctica in 2019 won first prize in the Shackleton Leica ‘Capture the Extreme’ 2021 competition.
JUDGES’ COMMENTS // “This photo captures an incredibly intimate and calm moment in an otherwise pretty hostile environment. There’s a real accessibility to it, as if there is an understanding between the two of them, captured in a glance, in a fleeting moment. It also captures an essence of the Golden Age of Exploration – one can’t help but think that Frank Hurley himself would love this image.”
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Feature story with Shackleton:
This is a link to an interview I did with Shackleton clothing, who did a story about the 2019 expedition to find Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance. Click the image to read the interview.