NEW YORK (June 20, 2024) – As we speak the Nationwide Audubon Society introduced the winners of the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards. Now in its fifteenth yr, the competition options beautiful work from professionals, amateurs, and younger folks that highlights the great thing about birds and the enjoyment of capturing that by means of pictures and movies. Judges awarded 9 prizes, together with the brand new Birds in Landscapes Prize for the highest picture depicting the connection between birds and their environment. Successful entries and honorable mentions had been chosen from greater than 2,300 entrants from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and 9 Canadian provinces and 1 territory.
For the primary time, the competitors awarded the Birds in Landscapes Prize, which was launched to attract consideration to how birds join with their broader environment. Whether or not the setting is wild, city, or suburban, or the connection is symbiotic or displays a particular problem birds face, the prize encourages photographers to take a step again and have a look at the entire setting, then let the {photograph} inform the story. Beforehand featured prizes, such because the Crops for Birds Prize, Fisher Prize, Feminine Hen Prize, and Video Prize, had been additionally awarded on this yr’s contest.
Audubon’s local weather science report Survival by Degrees reveals that two-thirds of North American birds are threatened by extinction from local weather change, together with species featured on this yr’s Audubon Pictures Awards just like the Blackburnian Warbler, California Quail, and Sedge Wren. Be taught extra about how local weather change will affect birds in your communities by getting into your zip code into Audubon’s Birds and Climate Visualizer.
Award winners and honorable mentions might be featured within the Summer time 2024 difficulty of Audubon magazine, and choose pictures and movies may also be featured in digital galleries promoted on Audubon’s web site and social channels all year long.
Grand Prize Winner
Skilled Winner
Beginner Winner
Crops For Birds Winner
Youth Winner
Video Winner
Feminine Hen Prize Winner
Birds in Landscapes Prize Winner
Fisher Prize Winner
Skilled Honorable Point out
Beginner Honorable Point out
Video Honorable Point out
Crops For Birds Honorable Point out
Youth Honorable Point out
2024 Contest Prizes:
Grand Prize: $5,000 USD
Skilled Prize: $2,500 USD
Beginner Prize: $2,500 USD
Crops for Birds Prize: $2,500 USD
Video Prize: $2,500 USD
Feminine Hen 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 2024 panel of judges:
- 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
- John Rowden, conservation marketing consultant and native vegetation professional
- Mike Fernandez, video producer, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Rina Miele, wildlife photographer and videographer
- Mick Thompson, wildlife photographer and videographer
- Alyssa Bueno, wildlife photographer, Feminist Hen Membership
- Founders of the Galbatross Venture:
- Brooke Bateman, director of local weather science, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Stephanie Beilke, conservation supervisor, conservation science, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Martha Harbison, communications director, neighborhood constructing, Nationwide Audubon Society
- Joanna Wu, PhD scholar on the College of California, Los Angeles
All pictures and movies are judged primarily based on technical high quality, originality, and creative advantage and should adhere to Audubon’s Guide to Ethical Bird Photography and Videography. For extra data, please go to the official contest rules.
To study extra about Audubon’s Crops for Birds program and Native Crops Database, please go to audubon.org/native-plants.
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About Audubon
The Nationwide Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group that protects birds and the locations they want as we speak 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 drive for conservation. Audubon has greater than 700 employees 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 hen species are liable to extinction throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning methods in regards to 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 hen populations and reversing present tendencies in biodiversity loss. We do that by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with native communities, influencing public and company coverage, and constructing neighborhood. Be taught extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
Media Contact: Megan Moriarty, megan.moriarty@audubon.org