The 25 beautiful shots that won Nature Photographer of The Year 2022.

Among the many photography competitions that exist, one of them is a must and wins every year real success. It is the Nature Photographer of the Year, which rewards photographs highlighting the beauty of nature. And at the end of the year, the competition organizers have just announced the winners of this 2022 edition.

Since 2016, the competition has rewarded photographers from all over the world who covet the prestigious Photographer of the Year award. For this seventh edition, 20,952 shots were chosen by a special jury, a record never before achieved. Photographers from 96 countries worldwide are divided into 12 categories: birds, landscapes, animals, or plants.

At the end of the results, the first prize is awarded the sum of 3000€, while the winners by category receive money and photography equipment.

During this last edition, the photographer Dmitry Kokh largely distinguished himself with his shot entitled “House of the Bears,” where we observe two polar bears taking refuge in an abandoned house like two human beings. The photograph moved the assembly because it sadly demonstrates the future of these endangered animals who are forced to leave their natural habitat to come closer to cities to feed themselves.

Discover below a selection of the winning and finalist photographs of the Nature Photographer of the Year competition. To learn more about the competition and why not register for the 2023 edition, we recommend you visit the official competition website.

And if you appreciate nature photography, we invite you to (re)discover the sublime winning shots of the Nature Photographer Awards 2021 and those of the Nature inFocus Photography Awards 2022.

Grand prize

“House of Bears” by Dmitry Kokh

Credits: Dmitry Kokh

Category Birds

Winner – “Kittiwake” by Knut-Sverre Horn

Credits: Knut-Sverre Horn

Finalist – “Sound of Colors” by Rupert Kogler

Credits: Rupert  Category Mammals Winner – “The World is Mine” by Sascha Fonseca

Credits: Sascha  Finalist – “Out of the Fire of Creation” by James Gifford

Credits: James  Category Other Animals

Winner – “Adaptation to Death” by Bernhard Schubert

Credits: Bernhard Schubert

Finalist – “Shelter” by Marco Maggesi

Credits: Marco Maggesi

Category Plants and Fungi