Wildlife photography 2005 - Wildlife Photographer of the Year
4 – 26 November 2006
For more than forty years, the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Natural History Museum in London have been organising the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Photographers from dozens of countries take part, and the winning images make up an exhibition shown around the world.
This year’s edition of the exhibition consists of 83 photographs, awarded and honoured in over a dozen categories. The winning works were selected from among almost 17,000 photographs taken by 1,410 authors from 57 countries. The aims of the organisers of the competition and the exhibition are as follows: to raise the status of wildlife photography to the status of mainstream contemporary art; to inspire new generations of photographers to create expressive interpretations of wildlife; and to exhibit the collected photographs around the globe to show its inhabitants the grandeur, drama, beauty and diversity of life on Earth and to stimulate in them a concern for its future.
For the third time in the exhibition’s history, there are photographs taken by a Polish photographer. This time it is a young Varsovian, Mateusz Kowalski, winner of the third prize and an honourable mention in one of the competition’s categories. The organiser of the exhibition’s tour of Poland is Agencja Zegart – Jerzy Zegarliński.
