A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.(May 2016) |
Travel Photographer of the Year | |
---|---|
Website | www |
Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) is an international travel photography award, founded by professional photographer Chris Coe and his partner Karen Coe in 2003. The competition runs annually and is open to entries from photographers of all ages and abilities. Each year an overall winner is presented with the 'Travel Photographer of The Year' award, with additional winners selected from each of the year's categories. The competition is judged by an international panel of expert photographers and editors, assessing as many as 20,000 entries from over 142 different countries each year. [1] [2]
Since 2011, winning images (alongside runners-up) have been displayed in major TPOTY-held exhibitions in central London at venues such as the Royal Geographical Society [3] [4] and the University of Greenwich, [5] [6] and published in an accompanying series of Journey portfolio books.
In 2011 TPOTY entered into a 5-year agreement with the Royal Geographical Society to 'host major annual exhibitions of the awards’ travel photography' annually in South Kensington alongside events and workshops. [3] [4]
In 2016 TPOTY re-located to the University of Greenwich, signing a 2-year agreement to display the 2016 and 2017 exhibitions at the university's Stockwell Street campus. [5] [6] [7]
For 2018 and 2019, the TPOTY exhibitions were hosted as 24-hour, open-air displays at London Bridge City. [8]
Date of Publication | Volume Title | Years of Awards | Format |
---|---|---|---|
1 December 2004 | Journey One | 2003-2004 | Hardcover |
14 January 2007 | Journey Two | 2005-2006 | Hardcover |
1 February 2009 | Journey Three | 2007-2009 | Hardcover |
3 September 2012 | Journey Four | 2010-2011 | Hardcover |
1 October 2013 | Journey Five | 2012 | Paperback |
11 July 2014 | Journey Six | 2013 | Paperback |
24 July 2015 | Journey Seven | 2014 | Paperback |
22 July 2016 | Journey Eight | 2015 | Paperback |
July 2016 | Journey Nine | 2016 | Paperback |
The overall winner is the photographer who has submitted the best images in two different portfolio categories. A young overall winner is also chosen. In addition, there are winners, runners-up, highly commended and commended entrants in all categories.
Year | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
2018 | Stefano Pensotti [11] [12] | Italy |
2017 | Alain Schroeder [13] | Belgium |
2016 | Joel Santos [14] [15] | Portugal |
2015 | Marsel van Oosten [16] [17] | Netherlands |
2014 | Philip Lee Harvey [18] | United Kingdom |
2013 | Timothy Allen [19] [20] [21] | United Kingdom |
2012 | Craig Easton [22] | United Kingdom |
2011 | Louis Montrose [23] [24] [25] | United States |
2010 | Larry Louie [26] | Canada |
2009 | GMB Akash | Bangladesh |
2008 | Darwin Wiggett [27] [28] | Canada |
2007 | Cat Vinton [29] | United Kingdom |
2006 | Julian Love | United Kingdom |
2005 | Lorne Resnick [30] | Canada |
2004 | Pang Piow Kan [31] | Malaysia |
2003 | Peter Adams | United Kingdom |
Year | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
2018 | Isabella Smith | United States |
2017 | Morgan Wolfers | United States |
2016 | Darpan Basak | India |
2015 | Chase Guttman | United States |
2014 | Samuel Fisch | United States |
2013 | Jonathan Rystrøm | Denmark |
2012 | Samuel Fisch | United States |
2011 | Arne Hansen | Germany |
2010 | Kat Waters | United Kingdom |
2009 | Courtney Krawec | Australia |
2008 | Daniel Rooney | United Kingdom |
2007 | Luna Malka | Canada |
2006 | Robert Dziabel | Germany |
2005 | Edward Mole | United Kingdom |
2004 | Anna Scott | United Kingdom |
2003 | Chris Charnock | United Kingdom |
Category | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 14 and under | Daniel Kurian | India/Australia |
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 15-18 | Fardin Oyan | Bangladesh |
Faces, People, Cultures | Marinka Masseus | Netherlands |
Natural World | Javier Herranz Casellas | Spain |
Travel | Matjaz Krivic | Slovenia |
One Shot - Hot/Cold | Philip Lee Harvey, Andrew James | United Kingdom |
One Shot - Tranquility | Simon Morris | United Kingdom |
iTravelled | Nicola Young | United Kingdom |
New Talent | Jose Antonio Rosa | Peru |
Category | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 14 and under | Maddie Nolan | United States |
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 15-18 | Josiah Huddleston | United States / Japan |
Celebration of Humanity | Paul Sansome | United Kingdom |
Earth & Climate | Katherine Keates | Canada |
Tales of Adventure | Emiliano Pinnizzotto | Italy |
One Shot - Food | Jianhui Liao | China |
One Shot - Primary Colours | Wendy Timmermans | Netherlands |
One Shot - Wildlife & Nature | Johan Siggesson | Sweden |
iTravelled | Pia Vachha | Netherlands |
New Talent | Alexandre Zindy | France |
Category | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 14 and under | Ankit Kumar | India |
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 15-18 | Courtney Moore | United States |
Mankind | Ruiyuan Chen | China |
Land, Sea, Sky | Craig Easton | United Kingdom |
Journeys & Adventures | Beniamino Pisati | Italy |
One Shot - Shaped by Light | Biran Zhao | China |
One Shot - Cities & Architecture | Michele Palazzo | Italy |
One Shot - Wildlife & Nature | Luke Massey | United Kingdom |
iCaptured | Marina Spironetti | Italy |
New Talent | Alison Cahill | United Kingdom |
Category | Winner | Nationality |
---|---|---|
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 14 and under | Michael Theodric | Indonesia |
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 15-18 | Spencer Cox | United States |
Faces, People, Encounters | Mitchell Kanashkevich | Australia |
Monochromal | Xia Xuejun | China |
Nature & Environment | James Morgan | United Kingdom |
One Shot - A Moment in Light | Uli Kunz | Germany |
One Shot - Colours of the World | Larry Louie | Canada |
One Shot - Water | Jasper Doest | Netherlands |
iCaptured | Edgard de Bono | Italy |
New Talent | Zhu Jingyi | China |
Harry Morey Callahan was an American photographer and educator. He taught at both the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design.
LensCulture is a photography network and online magazine about contemporary photography in art, media, politics, commerce and popular cultures worldwide. It is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Timothy Walker HonFRPS is a British fashion photographer, who regularly works for Vogue, W and Love magazines. He is based in London.
Marsel van Oosten is a Dutch photographer specialising in nature and wildlife photography. He has been overall winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Travel Photographer of the Year competitions.
The World Photography Organisation is a global platform for photography initiatives. Established in 2007 by CEO Scott Gray, it involves people and organisations from more than 180 countries.
Maciej Dakowicz is a Polish street photographer, photojournalist and gallerist. He is from Białystok in North East Poland. Dakowicz is best known for his series of photographs of Cardiff night-life titled Cardiff after Dark. He and others set up and ran Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff and he was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
William John Monk was a South African, known for his photographs of a Cape Town nightclub between 1967 and 1969, during apartheid. In 2012 a posthumous book was published, Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs.
Will Burrard-Lucas, is a British wildlife photographer and entrepreneur. He is known for developing devices, such as BeetleCam and camera traps, which enable him to capture close-up photographs of wildlife.
Photo London is an annual photography event held at Somerset House in London in May. Galleries and publishers show and sell work by photographers, and there are curated exhibitions and talks. Awards are also given.
Portrait of Britain is an annual British portrait photography competition run by the British Journal of Photography. Its subject is the diversity of British people. The 100 winning portraits are displayed on JCDecaux's digital screens across Britain throughout the month of September. It launched in 2016.
Enda Bowe is an Irish photographer that lives and works in London. His publications include Kilburn Cherry (2013) and At Mirrored River (2016). Bowe was joint winner of the SOLAS Ireland award in 2015 and won second prize in the 2018 and 2019 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. He has had solo exhibitions in Carlow and in Dublin.
The British Sports Journalism Awards is an annual ceremony organised by the Sports Journalists' Association that recognise the best of sports journalism in Britain in the previous calendar year. The awards are widely considered the BAFTAs of the industry, and attract entries from all major domestic and international media outlets.
Alys Tomlinson is a British photographer. She has published the books Following Broadway (2013), Ex-Voto (2019) and Lost Summer (2020). For Ex-Voto she won the Photographer of the Year award at the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards. Portraits from Lost Summer won First prize in the 2020 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
James Rushforth is a British photographer, mountaineer, climber, and travel writer, especially known for his guide book series on the Dolomites, as well as for his travel, nature, landscape, and extreme sport photographs, many of which have been recognized at the International Photography Award, the Siena International Photo Awards, and the Px3 – Prix de la Photographie. Rushforth's photos have been displayed in national newspapers, travel magazines and other media.
Street Photography Now is a survey book of contemporary street photography, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren and published by Thames & Hudson in 2010. It includes work by 56 photographers. Blake Andrews described the book as "the first broad street photography book to be published since Bystander in 1994". Between 2010 and 2012, a series of exhibitions were held in Europe with work from the book.
Brian Griffin is a British photographer. His portraits of 1980s pop musicians lead to him being named the "photographer of the decade" by The Guardian in 1989. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Arts Council, British Council, Victoria and Albert Museum and National Portrait Gallery, London.
Awoiska van der Molen is a Dutch photographer, living in Amsterdam. She has produced three books of black and white landscape photographs, made in remote places. Van der Molen has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and the Prix Pictet, and her work is held in the collections of the Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Craig Easton is a British photographer who lives in The Wirral and works on long-term social documentary projects that deal with the representation of communities in the North of England. He has made work about women working in the UK fish processing industry; about the inter-generational nature of poverty and economic hardship in Northern England; about social deprivation, housing, unemployment and immigration in Blackburn; and about how the situation in which young people throughout the UK live, influences their aspirations.
Polly Braden is a Scottish documentary photographer, living in London. Her work on learning disabilities and autism has been shown in exhibitions at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and at mac, Birmingham. Her work on single parent families has been shown in exhibitions at the Museum of the Home in London and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. Braden won Photographer of the Year in the Guardian Student Media Award in 2002.