The Earth Photo 2025 winners have been announced
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”, according to Lorenzo Poli.
Don't miss the opportunity to see a selection of the winning and shortlisted works in stunning forest settings.
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
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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 national and international exhibition partners including the Sidney Nolan Trust and Lishui International Photography Festival.
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