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Earth Photo, a programme that showcases images depicting the issues affecting the climate and life on our planet, has announced the shortlist for this year’s competition.
Photographers and filmmakers entered their work in Earth Photo 2023, the international competition and exhibition for images that tell compelling stories about the planet. A judging panel made up of experts from the fields of photography, film, geography and the environment selected the best of 1,400 entries, ending with 128 photos and videos.
The shortlisted images will be available to see in the Earth Photo exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London from June 17 to August 23 as well as five Forestry England sites across the country from June 23 to January 28, 2024.
The exhibition will also tour the Sidney Nolan Trust in Herefordshire, from July 13 to September 30, The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall from February 1, 2024 to March 1, 2024 and the Lishui International Photography Festival, China, in December 2023. All images will also be available to view on the Earth Photo website.
The winners will be announced at the Earth Photo 2023 Awards Ceremony on June 22 at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). If you would like to attend the ceremony please sign up at www.rgs.org/events/summer-2023/earth-photo-2023-awards-ceremony-and-panel/
Spirit and Soul of the Annapurna Region, Nepal: The hill farmers of the Modi Valley in Gandaki Province, live in harmony with nature in arduous terrain amid the threat of heavy monsoons and landslides. Their buffalos produce milk for hot buffalo milk-tea, a local delicacy
JU SHEN LEE
The embrace of a mother: Yamina, of the Beni Guil nomads, shields her children from the harsh gusts near their home on the outskirts of Tendrara, Morocco. Winds of up to 60mph whip sand and dirt across the parched terrain
YZZA SLAOUI
Honor Loxton, of Crate to Plate, in Elephant and Castle, south London. The company grows fresh produce including lettuce, rocket, kale, basil, parsley, coriander and mint in shipping containers using hydroponics
JOANNA VESTEY
The Holderness coast on the East Riding of Yorkshire has the highest rate of coastal erosion in Europe. A project called Lost Villages is documenting the irreversible change to the landscape. It is estimated that up to 32 villages dating back to Roman times have already been lost
NEIL WHITE
Save our forests: Sonia Bhamra is using the ancient wisdom of Sikh theology to address the negative impact humans are having on the planet and how we are destroying the very nature we are part of
SONIA BHAMRA
Monster of Damodar: A lack of freshwater from global warming means fishermen in West Bengal, India, have to navigate through a thick growth of algae. Health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental degradation on the Damodar River
SANDIPANI CHATTOPADHYAY
Searching for life: Elsewhere in West Bengal, the lack of rain is causing a severe drinking water crisis. The Bankura district in West Bengal is badly affected with villagers having to collect muddy water from dried river beds and filter it to make it drinkable
SANDIPANI CHATTOPADHYAY
In Accra, the capital of Ghana, 35-year-old Nurideen breaks down a broken battery charger inverter, which was used as backup device in a solar energy storage system. He will resell valuable material inside such as copper or metal. Unusable material is burnt, which releases toxic gases
SANDRA WELLER
A protected ancient forest in Eagle Fern Park, Oregon, where trees in the barren land are left to decompose naturally
LIZA FAKTOR
A surreal take on a beach scene at Barcelona illustrates what the landscape would look like without surrounding vegetation
MARCEL STAHN
No need to rush for this peacock, making its way at a stately pace across the road in Rodeo, California
ANNETTE BURKE
Members of the Hezoudé beekeepers association in the Abdoulaye Forest, Togo, sustainably produce forest honey from the nature reserve. Every year the forest shrinks, forcing transient people to look for new places to settle
THOMAS MARTIN
Farmland in Sylhet, Bangladesh, was devastated when seasonal rains in May last year set off a series of flash floods. Some 7.2 million people across nine districts were affected by the catastrophe with villages submerged and thousands of hectares of agricultural lands lost
SUBRATA DEY
The search for food drives elephants into the paddy fields of Sherpur in Bangladesh in the dead of night
K M ASAD
A desperate scene in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, where monsoon rains caused widespread flooding. Bangladesh has experienced increasing extreme weather in recent years, causing large-scale damage. Environmentalists warn climate change could lead to more disasters, especially in low-lying and densely populated areas
AZIM KHAN RONNIE
Poznan zoo in Poland agreed to take exotic animals that were at risk of being abandoned during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since the invasion, a big effort to save domestic, wild and endangered animals has been carried out by volunteers, army and territorial defence in Ukraine
MICHAL SIAREK
A bumblebee hovers in a meadow in Vestfold/Viken, eastern Norway
PAL HERMANSEN
A beachside property is swallowed by a collapsing cliff at Akrotiri Red Beach in Greece
SEBASTIAN LEWANDOWSKI
The vast scale of brickmaking industries in Bangladesh is causing havoc with the surrounding environment in the capital Dhaka. It is estimated that one million people churn out tens of billions of bricks each year across 7,000 separate kilns
AZIM KHAN RONNIE
Light reflects off a chalk stream in Dorset. Southern England contains 85 per cent of the world’s chalk streams, but they face a growing threat from sewage overspill, water abstraction, farmland run-off and the practice of stocking them with trout for sport fishing
ELLIE DAVIES
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