05/10/2021

MONTPHOTO VERDICT 2021

"Ghost" by Will Burrard-Lucas is the overall winner of the prize of honour of the 25th edition of MONTPHOTO
Yesterday, during the gala of the 25th edition of MontPhoto, the prizes were awarded to all the categories of the photography contest, the Multimedia Storytelling contest, as well as the 2021-2022 Photography Grant for nature conservation, endowed with € 6,000.

The British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas is the winner of the Prize of Honour of the 25th edition of the international MONTPHOTO photo and video competition.
Burrard-Lucas was awarded with his image titled "Ghost", which has also won the award for best photograph in the Mammals category and depicts an elusive hunting leopard in the night.

The 2021-2022 winning Grant went to Adriana Claudia Sanz (Buenos Aires, 1970), with a project to document the decline in the reproductive population of the Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi), a species of grebe known in Patagonia as “Macá tobiano” .

The awards for the first MontPhoto Multimedia Storytelling were also announced. "Aterpean Ateri" by Ruben Crespo from Spain has been the award-winning work in the mountain category and "Nigerians Fight to Protect the World's Most Trafficked Mammal" by Katie Schuler from the United States has won the nature category.
 

Winners by categories

The winner of the first prize in the Mountain category was for the Spanish photographer Manuel Ismael Gómez with his photograph titled "The Kayak Monster".

In the Birds category, the winner was the British Bret Charman with his picture "A Beakful".

In the category Other animals the winner was for the Spanish photographer Jaime Culebras with his work "Eggs of Hope".

In the World of Plants category, Imre Potyó from Hungary, won the first prize thanks to his photograph of "Spore ghost".

"The Astonishing" by Italian Mauro Tronto won the first prize in the Landscape category.

In the Underwater World category, the award went to Xavier Salvador Costa from Spain for his photograph  "Bajo la luna".

In the Ecological Report category, "Culled" by Marc Graf (Austria) was chosen as the winning photograph.

In the category Art in Nature, the winner is Gheorghe Popa from Romania with his "Yin and Yang" photograph.

Finally, in the Nature from home category, created last year as a result of the lockdown situation caused by COVID-19, Milan Radisics from Hungary was the winner with his photograph titled "Fox drinking from the pool".

MontPhoto also presented an award for the best Nature portfolio, which went to Joan de la Malla from Spain, with a selection of 15 photographs titled "Tras la máscara".

Special prizes and prizes to Young photographers were also given as a commitment to encouragement and training.

All the images can be seen in the web gallery.

 
Other awards and recognitions such as those of AEFONA, FCF and CEF can be seen by contacting the entities that grant them.