Here Are the Travel Photographer of the Year Winners » Explorersweb

Athanasios Laoukos of Greece has gained the general prize within the prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) contest, awarded for a portfolio of pictures slightly than a single body.

Laoukos documented the Sema ceremony in Turkey and Holy Week processions in Zamora, Spain, showcasing how place, religion, and other people intersect. In Turkey, Laoukos captures the whirling dervishes mid-turn. In Zamora, he caught the hooded penitents as they superior by means of slender streets in the course of the centuries-old ritual.

 

The TPOTY competitors started in 2003 and has developed into one of the revered awards in out of doors images. Photographers from 160 nations submitted over 20,000 pictures to a 16-person panel of trade consultants. Every finalist needed to submit their authentic RAW information to show the pictures have been free from manipulation.

 

Young Travel Photographer of the Year went to 10-year-old Jamie Smart from the UK for his assortment of bat images. He beat entrants from each the 14-and-under and 15-to-18-year-old classes.

 

Single-image classes

New for 2025 was the Travel Image of the Year award, chosen from the winners of the one-shot classes. The inaugural winner was Dana Allen from the U.S. for her surreal black-and-white close-up of a bull elephant shrouded in mud in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater.

 

The multi-image portfolio classes included Wildlife, Sealife, and Birdlife. Here, Mohammed Murad of Kuwait claimed the highest prize with a sequence exhibiting Arabian desert foxes on the sting of Kuwait City. In one picture, their silhouettes stood out towards a background of city lights.

 

Mitchel Kanashkevich of Australia gained the Culture, Heritage, and Beliefs Portfolio for his pictures of youngsters learning within the Mauritian mahadras. Paul Sansome of the UK gained the Landscape, Weather, and Climate class, whereas Sara Bardotti from Italy rounded out the portfolio awards together with her successful pictures within the Adventure and Experiences class.

 

Single-image winners have been additionally chosen for every portfolio class. In Wildlife, Sealife, and Birdlife, Kevin Yu Shi from the U.S. captured a unprecedented picture of a puma in mid-attack on a guanaco in Chile’s Torres del Paine. Shi later defined that the feminine puma had been stalking the guanaco to feed her two cubs, however the hunt in the end failed.

 

 

In Adventure and Experiences, Frederico Figueiredo Cerdeira of Brazil additionally gained with an underwater picture of a surfer diving to flee a wave at Fiji’s Cloudbreak Reef. And Laetitia Guichard from France gained her class for her eerie picture of a aircraft flying close to a protracted funnel cloud.

 

See the total assortment of successful and runner-up pictures here.