Photographer of the Year – 2016 Winners
• More than 10, 000 photographs submitted
• Over 7 million pages viewed
• No fewer than 200, 000 votes cast by our community
The 2016 winners of Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year are:
Overall winner
A Maasai warrior teaches his son about the stars ©Robin Stuart
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Audience favourite (winner of most votes)
Illusions by nature in the Namib Desert, Namibia ©Gal Zanir
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Category winners:
1. Wildlife
A hornbill and a hare in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania ©William Walldén
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2. Traditional Culture
A Maasai warrior teaches his son about the stars ©Robin Stuart
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3. Travel
The surreal landscape of the sulphur pools at Dallol in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia ©Trevor Cole
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The finalists
An elephant bull walks to the water in Amboseli National Park, Kenya ©Pieter Ras
Children create a makeshift house in Motsoaledi informal settlement, South Africa ©Ilan Ossendryver
A young baboon strikes a pose in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania ©Jacques-Andre Dupont
A honey badger at Cubitje Quap waterhole in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park ©Willem Kruger
A hyena gets caught in the rain ©Nick Rabjohn
Shining a light on the Milky Way in Spitzkoppe, Namibia ©Ben McRae
A male lion in the twilight of his reign in Kruger National Park, South Africa ©Craig Hayman
An underwater dancer in Protea Banks, a top dive site off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ©Pier Mane
A rainy day for a lion in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania ©Panos Laskarakis
Greener pastures for a white rhino in a private game reserve in South Africa ©Mark Winckler
A black eagle takes a branch to its nest in Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens, South Africa ©Ernest Porter
A lioness prepares to hunt in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania ©Roie Galitz
