YOUNG WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION!
Love taking photos? Enjoy getting outdoors and seeing wildlife up close? This is the perfect contest for you…
Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is one of the world’s top wildlife photography honours – it’s kind of like the Oscars™ of the photography world!
So if you’re a budding young photographer who loves wildlife, get out into nature and take some sensational snaps! Your images can cover any aspect of wildlife and the natural world – from creepy crawlies and terrific trees to interesting habitats and urban wildlife. This year’s competition is the 60th edition so it’s extra special!
Meet some previous winners
Vidyun R Hebbar – Dome home
Vidyun R Hebbar scooped the prize in 2021, aged 12. He snapped his spooky winning entry, Dome home (pictured below) in a theme park near his home in India. He found an occupied spider’s web in a gap in a wall and took the snap just as a tuk-tuk vehicle passed by, creating a cool colourful backdrop. Awesome!
Vidyun says:
“I took this picture while I was exploring my busy city, a walkable distance from my house! This world of tiny creatures is fascinating – even your own neighbourhood can take you to Wildlife Photographer of the Year!”
Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn – The beauty of baleen
Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn won the prize in 2022, aged 16. He took his close-up winning entry, The beauty of baleen (pictured below), from a tour boat in Thailand. Baleen is a comb-like structure found in the mouths of some whales that they use to capture and filter small organisms from the water. Unbaleenable!
Katanyou says:
“The Wildlife Photographer of the Year award ceremony was the best experience of my life! I met photographers from around the world and we shared our experiences – it was amazing.“
The Prizes
The 2023 Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year will receive:
- – £1,500
- – A special trophy
- – A personalised certificate
- – A two-day Masterclass with a professional photographer
- – An article in the Natural History Museum’s WILD WORLD magazine
The other Young Category winners will receive £500, a personalised certificate, a trip to London for the awards ceremony and their image published in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio. Whoa!
Winners will have a whale of a time at the awards ceremony. Literally! The ceremony takes place underneath Hope the whale at the Natural History Museum in London…
How to enter
For Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, you can submit up to TEN photos into one of the three age groups:
10 Years and Under
11-14 Years
15-17 Years
Entry is FREE! The winner of each age category will be considered for the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year title.
Good luck! We can’t wait to see your entries…
Head to nhm.ac.uk/wpy to find out more and submit your entry!
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Woh I’m really in to photography and might take this up thanks!
I was interested in entering the young Wildlife photography and saw it was closed, when will the next competition start
I am a intrepid Young Photographer and I totally love this sort of thing-good luck to you who are entering!
I AM 9 YEARS OLD AND I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO SOME THING TO DO WITH WILD LIFE.
Cool
amazing photos you definitely deserve to be winners
I would like to inform this because i think this comppetetion is a great competetion
Good to see that it’s open to all kids-many other competitions are open to 10-14 yrs old which means many kids can’t enter-not great for them. I’m hoping to enter next year.
Awesome
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