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The Travel Photographer of the Year has celebrated its 21st anniversary by announcing the results of this year’s contest, with 14 winners being selected more than 20,000 images submitted by amateur and professional entrants from 150 countries.
This year’s overall winner was AndreJa Ravnak from Slovenia, the second consecutive winner from the country, following on from Matjaz Krivic, who took the title in 2022. The judges were impressed by Ravnak’s ability to blend a sense of fairytale beauty with the structural discipline carried over from her day job as an architect.
The winners can be seen in full at the Travel Photographer of the Year website.
Jack Lawson’s shot of members of the Special Eagles, Nigeria’s national amputee football team, staring out into the ocean was named Best Single Image in a People and Cultures Portfolio
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This intimate image of Barbary macaques resting between climbing Atlas cedar trees at the Ifrane National Park in Morocco, taken by Arthur Cech, 15, was joint runner-up in the Young TPOTY Age 15-18 category
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The optical effect that briefly takes place every year at Lake Shirakawa in Japan’s Tohoku region, when the melting snow creates the sense of a submerged forest being revealed, is expertly captured in Kazuaki Koseki’s shot
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Caden Shepard Choi, 14, was named Young Travel Photographer of the Year, with judges praising her visual storytelling, seen in this image of a weaver working on a rug started by her daughter in Arizona, United States
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The bold landscape photography of Zayan Durrani, who won the 14 Years and Under category, rewards the efforts he made to capture the eruption of the Litli-Hrutur volcano in Iceland following on from an arduous ten-mile hike
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The People’s Choice award, selected by the general public, went to Rohan Neel Shah, 15, for this image of a bewildered wildebeest unable to find their place in Great Migration in Masai Mara, Kenya
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Sam Turley’s heart-warming shot of the bond between Marimba, a ground pangolin, and Mateo, the carer who reared him at the Wild is Life Sanctuary in Harare, Zimbabwe, was the runner-up in the Nature, Wildlife and Conservation category
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F Dilek Yurdakul was commended for this image of a schoolgirl in the Kalash Valley in Pakistan, praising its framing and use of colour
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Martin Broen’s image of a yellow clown goby adapting to the environmental crisis by setting up home in a discarded bottle on the seabed in Anilao, Philippines, won Best Single Image in a Wildlife and Conservation Portfolio
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Ignacio Palacios impressed the judges with his ability to seek out pockets of tranquillity in nature among the chaos of modern life, such as this carefully composed shot of a figure on a sand dune in La Puna, Argentina
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Andrew Parkinson brilliantly captures the frenzy of activity as a yellow armadillo picks up the pace in the Pantanal wetlands, Brazil
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The intricate details of the Icelandic highlands, with its intertwining map of rivers, are laid out in Armand Sarlangue’s stunning aerial landscape shot
ARMAND SARLANGUE/WWW.TPOTY.COM
Roie Galitz’s photo of a young lioness feeding on the remains of a dead elephant in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania puts the brutal reality of the food chain into sharp focus
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As above, so below. Martin Broen’s stunning black and white shot of a Mobula ray avoiding a boat in La Ventana, Baja California, Mexico perfectly encapsulates the duality of nature
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Armand Sarlangue’s landscape shot of the flowing lava of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland, distils the power of nature into a pure abstract force
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Josien van Geffen takes the daring act of crossing the the Highline 179 suspension bridge in Reutte, Austria, and lends it an ironically beautiful ambience and an almost geometric video game quality
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Andrea Peruzzi lifts the curtain to reveal the life the Bedouins enjoy once the tourist have left as a local leaps between the iconic rocks of the Treasury of Petra, Jordan
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