The 2025 shortlist was selected from 1,582 submissions by 250 lens artists, 203 powerful photographs and films by 40 outstanding photographers and filmmakers around the world.
The Earth Photo 2025 Award goes to Lorenzo Poli for his entry Autophagy
This impressive, black-and-white photograph was taken at the Chuquicamata mine in Chile, the second-largest open-pit copper mine in the world by excavated volume and one of the deepest, plunging nearly 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) into the Earth.
Capturing an abandoned miners’ town and cemetery gradually being subsumed by mineral ore extraction, the image documents the “gridded impermanence of extractive cycles, overpowering life and death”. See the full winners list below.
The Earth Photo 2025 exhibition
Shortlisted images will be on display at the Royal Geographical Society, London from June 2025 and a selection of the shortlisted images will be on display at Grizedale Forest, Dalby Forest, Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest, Haldon Forest Park, Moors Valley and Alice Holt in 2025 and 2026, plus exhibition partners around the UK.
What is Earth Photo?
Now, more than ever, photography has the power to draw attention to the challenges facing the natural world and our planet.
Earth Photo is a world leading international programme, established in 2018. The programme engages with still and moving image makers, across all genres. Earth Photo addresses prescient issues affecting our planet, aiming to stimulate conversations about our environment and the impact of climate change.
In partnership with Forestry England, Parker Harris and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Earth Photo organises exhibitions, awards and events that celebrate photography and moving images.
Earth Photo tells compelling stories about our planet, its inhabitants, its beauty, fragility, and resilience.
Image Gallery
Click the thumbnail buttons below the large image to view the different images full size.
The full 2025 Earth Photo prize winners are:
- Earth Photo 2025 - Lorenzo Poli for Autophagy
- Climate of Change - Liam Man, for his series Carcass of the Ice Beast.
- Forest Ecosystem - Mateo Borrero, for his photograph Water line.
- Moving Image - Mohammad Rakibul Hasan and Fabeha Monir, for their film The Taste of Honey.
- Sidney Nolan Trust Residency Prize - Shane Hynanfor his series Beneath | Beofhód.
- David Wolf Kaye Future Potential Award - Photo - Issam Chorrib, for his photograph La Hepica – Consumed Living Spaces.
- David Wolf Kaye Future Potential Award - Film - Miranda Barton, for her film Soft Fascination.
- Photoworks Digital Residency - Shane Hynan, for his series Beneath | Beofhód.
- New Scientist Editors Award, Mentoring with Tim Boddy, Picture Editor - Vivian Wan for Rotary Screw Taps.
- New Scientist Editors Award, Mentoring with David Stock, Head of Editorial Video - Adam Sebire, for his film Sikorluppoq ('the sea ice is not good').
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