The 2022 World Nature Photography Awards Vacillate Between the Humor and Brutality of Life on Earth | Colossal


MARCH 3, 2023. GRACE EBERT

Photo © Staffan Widstrand. All images courtesy of World Nature Photography Awards

The winners encompass life across six continents, from an elephant’s endearing attempt at camouflage to a crocodile covered in mud.

Moments of coincidental humor, stark cruelty, and surprising inter-species intimacies are on full display in this year’s World Nature Photography Awards. The winners of the 2022 competition encompass a vast array of life across six continents, from an elephant’s endearing attempt at camouflage to a crocodile covered in excessively dry mud spurred by drought. While many of the photos highlight natural occurrences, others spotlight the profound impacts humans have on the environment to particularly disastrous results, including Nicolas Remy’s heartbreaking image that shows an Australian fur seal sliced open by a boat propellor.[…]

A underwater photo of a seal with several cuts on its backPhoto © Nicolas Remy

A photo of a bird perched in rusted and damaged lightsPhoto © Vladislav Tasev

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