Deadline for entry Tue 2 Jun 2020 17:00 BST
The Earth Photo 2020 exhibition is now open online! Please click here to see all the selected images and videos. Selected images are divided into categories inspired by People, Place, Nature, Changing Forests and A Climate of Change. The physical exhibitions at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and in Forestry England forests, as well as the Earth Photo Awards Ceremony, are postponed until the Autumn/Winter of this year.
We hope you enjoy seeing this year’s fantastic images and video and congratulations to all the selected photographers!
Earth Photo is an innovative competition and exhibition developed jointly by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) which reflects the organisations’ common interest in enabling a better understanding of the world around us through our complementary disciplines of the Environment and Geography. Earth Photo will focus on photographs or films which describe one of the following subjects; People, Place, Nature and Changing Forests. We are delighted to announce that for the 2020 exhibition we have a special category; A Climate of Change, to mark COP26, The UN climate change summit in Glasgow in November 2020. Earth Photo invites entries for this new category which enables photographers and film-makers to advance ideas about any dimension of climate change. This work might explore impacts, or efforts to mitigate risks, or to adapt to a changing climate. It might engage with how climate change changes ‘us’. The best in each category will be awarded £250 each.
We believe that photography has a profound national and international influence and that a picture is worth a thousand words; images continue to influence public understanding of the world around us and convey meaning and emotion beyond the barriers of language.
Earth Photo’s main objective is to reveal the story behind the pictures: informing, entertaining and engaging audiences of all kinds and encouraging conversations to begin about their subjects. Earth Photo will enable the viewer not only to appreciate a single or group sequence of images, but also to understand the ‘back story’ to a picture.
The Earth Photo exhibition will be presented to audiences in a virtual gallery from July 2020 until the physical exhibition opens at the Royal Geographical Society, London and within the forests of Forestry England.
First Prize: A special prize will be awarded to one outstanding photographer.
Winners will also be selected for each of the categories and awarded £250 each:
A prize will also be awarded for a Short Film.
The overall Earth Photo 2020 Winner and all the other prize winners will be announced during the exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society, London. One of the world’s finest collections of photography, artwork and mapping which records over 500 years of travel, people, place and geographical discovery from the 1480s to the present day.
The exhibition and awards will be selected by an expert panel of selectors from the fields of Photography, Film, Geography and Environment. The selection panel of distinguished photographers, curators, geographers, environmentalists, and writers are listed below. The panel will be chaired by the award winning photographer, Marissa Roth.
Marissa Roth
Photographer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Vron Harris
Lecturer – Artist
Magdalena Herrera
Director of Photography, Geo Magazine France
Katie Burton
Editor of Geographical Magazine, Royal Geographical Society
Michael Pritchard
Director, Education and Public Affairs at the Royal Photographic Society
Simon Norfolk
Photographer
Matthew Arnold
Photographer
Tim Flach
Photographer
Tim Mitchell
Photographer
The competition is open to all professional and amateur, national and international photographers of all ages. Entrants are invited to submit up to 10 still photographs or films. All photographs and films entered must have been completed since 1 January 2019. All entrants must ensure that the quality of their entries meets the competition’s criteria as stated in the Rules and Guidelines.
Entry is by online submission through this website, and deadline for entry is by 5pm (BST) on Tuesday 2 June 2020. All entrants are asked to ensure they have read all Rules and Guidelines before entering.
The competition’s overall themes and categories are People, Place, Nature, Changing Forests and A Climate of Change.
This could include but not exclusively images representing:
In addition to the photography categories there is also a prize for short films between 5 seconds and 5 minutes long. Please see Help & FAQs section for further guidance.
Please provide a CV (2 x A4 sides maximum) and a short statement about yourself and your submitted images/films. If selected for exhibition, the organisers will ask you for a more detailed description for the catalogue and publicity purposes.
An Entry Fee of £15 will be charged to each entrant.
At the first stage, entrants are asked to submit up to 10 still photographs or films and a completed entry form. All entries must be in line with the Digital Specifications as detailed in the Rules and Guidelines. The judges are looking in particular for pictures that show the dynamic link between environmental and social issues in a way that makes us think differently about the world around us. The categories are People, Place, Nature, Changing Forests and A Climate of Change. Individual entries will be judged anonymously, and the judges will concentrate on looking for the following five qualities in submitted entries:
All entrants will be informed if they have been selected for exhibition by 22 June 2020, by email. All finalists will be contacted by the exhibition organisers regarding further details for providing final exhibition quality image or film files, and further details about the exhibition dates and events. See Digital Specifications section of Rules and Guidelines for further information. Stills images will be checked for proof of authenticity.
Tuesday 2 June 2020, 5pm (BST) | Deadline for entries |
29 June 2020 | Results announced |
July 2020 - onwards | Virtual exhibition goes live |
17 October 2020 - 31 December 2020 | Indoor exhibition at Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire |
19 December 2020 - 25 April 2021 | Indoor exhibition at Grizedale, Cumbria |
24 October 2020 - 19 April 2021 | Outdoor exhibition at Moors Valley, Dorset |
18 January – 31 March 2021 | Indoor exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London |
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