NEW YORK – Audubon invitations photographers and videographers to enter the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards, now open from January 10, 2024, till February 28, 2024, at 12 p.m. (midday) ET. Judges will award 9 prizes, together with the brand new Birds in Landscapes Prize, which is able to go to the highest picture depicting the connection between birds and the locations they want.
The competition’s new Birds in Landscapes Prize goals to spotlight how birds join with their broader environment. Birds don’t must be shut up for the {photograph} to achieve success. The setting will be wild, city, or suburban, and the connection will be symbiotic or can replicate a particular problem birds face. Different prizes embody the Grand Prize, Skilled Prize, Beginner Prize, Youth Prize, Vegetation for Birds Prize, Fisher Prize, Feminine Chicken Prize, and Video Prize.
Winners and honorable mentions shall be featured within the Summer time 2024 difficulty of Audubon journal. Choose photographs and movies can even be featured in digital galleries promoted on Audubon’s web site and social channels all year long. For inspiration, take a look at the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards winners!
Prizes embody:
Grand Prize: $5,000 USD
Skilled Prize: $2,500 USD
Beginner Prize: $2,500 USD
Vegetation for Birds Prize: $2,500 USD
Video Prize: $2,500 USD
Feminine Chicken Prize: $1,000 USD
Birds in Landscapes Prize: $1,000 USD
Fisher Prize: $1,000 USD
Youth Prize: Six days at Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp for Teenagers through the 2025 season
The judging panel for the 2024 contest contains:
- Sabine Meyer, images director, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Lucas Bustamante, environmental photojournalist and biologist
- Preeti Desai, senior director of social media & storytelling, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Daniel Dietrich, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, and cinematographer
- Morgan Heim, conservation photographer, filmmaker and adventurer
- Noppadol Paothong, nature/conservation photographer
- Marlene Pantin, Vegetation for Birds partnerships supervisor, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Mike Fernandez, video producer, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Rina Miele, wildlife photographer and videographer
- Mick Thompson, wildlife photographer and videographer
- Alyssa Bueno, wildlife photographer, Feminist Chicken Membership
- Founders of the Galbatross Venture: Brooke Bateman, Stephanie Beilke, Martha Harbison, Joanna Wu
Extra Details & Rules:
The competition is open to all authorized residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), who’re 13 years of age or older as of the date of the submission. Audubon encourages moral fowl images and videography. Pictures and movies that don’t adhere to Audubon’s Guide to Ethical Bird Photography and Videography shall be disqualified.
Entry charges are $15 per picture or video. No cost is required for submissions to the Youth division or to the Vegetation for Birds or Video divisions for entrants who’re 13 to 17 years of age.
Go to the web site for official contest rules and frequently asked questions.
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About Audubon
The Nationwide Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group that protects birds and the locations they want right this moment and tomorrow. We work all through the Americas in direction of a future the place birds thrive as a result of Audubon is a robust, various, and ever-growing pressure for conservation. Audubon has greater than 700 workers working throughout the hemisphere and greater than 1.5 million lively supporters. North America has misplaced three billion birds since 1970, and greater than 500 fowl species are prone to extinction throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning methods concerning the well being of the environment, and so they inform us that birds – and our planet – are in disaster. Collectively as one Audubon, we’re working to change the course of local weather change and habitat loss, resulting in more healthy fowl populations and reversing present developments in biodiversity loss. We do that by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with native communities, influencing public and company coverage, and constructing group. Study extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
Media Contact: Megan Moriarty, megan.moriarty@audubon.org
