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Photographer of the Year

WEEKLY SELECTION 8 - GALLERY 1 - Photographer of the Year 2025

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

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Our Photographer of the Year 2025 is open for submissions. The overall winners, runners up and their partners will enjoy a teamAG safari to explore the primal forests of Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the remote north of Congo-Brazzaville – in search of lowland gorillas, forest elephants, forest buffaloes, bongos and much more. Read more about the Photographer of the Year 2025 prizes here. In association with Ukuri and African Parks.

Photographer of the Year is open for entries from 1 February 2025 to midnight on 30 April 2025. Judging will take place throughout those months and for the month of May 2025, and the winners of Photographer of the Year will be announced in early June 2025.

Here is Gallery 1 of the best Photographer of the Year submissions for this week. To see the other gallery, follow the link: Gallery 2 

 

Photographer of the Year 2025
A dust-choked duel of tusks and tempers. These warthogs clashed for over half an hour in an operatic scuffle. Shompole Conservancy, Kenya. © Alex Appleby
Photographer of the Year 2025
A most peculiar and rather comical portrait of a malachite kingfisher. Intaka Island wetlands, Cape Town, South Africa. © Braeme Holland
Photographer of the Year 2025
A tiny elephant calf receives a lesson in the art of communication. Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa. © Charmaine Joubert
Photographer of the Year 2025
Muddy feet! A Meyer’s parrot at the waterhole. Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana.  © Pierre van der Berg
Photographer of the Year 2025
A leopard cub braves a clearing, following the call of her mother. She pauses for a moment, searching for signs of her mother. Sabie Game Reserve, South Africa. © Devon Jansen
Photographer of the Year 2025
Portrait of a beauty. Scarred, blind in one eye and cloaked in Serengeti grit, this hyena is no regular pin-up. But few portraits capture the resilience of survival quite like this. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. © Daniel Wallis
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Photographer of the Year 2025
Not just a leopard’s lounge. This lioness hoists herself into the boughs of a tree for a moment of arboreal peace. Greater Kruger, South Africa. © Celine Jurgelevicius
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The cattle egret becomes a brushstroke of ivory against a painterly backdrop, at Rondevlei Bird Hide. Wilderness Section, Garden Route National Park, South Africa. © Erhard Kruger
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A blue wildebeest goes about its business, unaware of the patient, piercing gaze fixed upon it from beyond. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ernest Porter
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Like brushstrokes on a living canvas, a dazzle of Grevy’s zebras gathers to eat supplementary food provided in the midst of drought, forming a monochrome masterpiece. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. © Janis Hurley
Photographer of the Year 2025
Golden hour in the Mara. Two topis meet against the setting sun, while quiet travellers mirror the tranquillity of the scene. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Lahiru Iddamalgoda
Photographer of the Year 2025
One eye the colour of cerulean, likely as the result of a fight, a leopard wears his wounds like war medals. “This particular male leopard must indeed be a natural-born warrior, as evidenced by his feisty character and torn ears.” Savute, Botswana. © Tomasz Szpila
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A gentle hold in a harsh world. Stolen from the wild and rescued from trafficking, this pangolin is now on the journey to a new home in the wilderness after rehabilitation. A symbol of hope for the most trafficked mammal on Earth. Botswana. © Helgardt Pretorius
Photographer of the Year 2025
A mother elephant with striking tusks receives affection from her calf. Amboseli National Park, Kenya. © Nili Gudhka
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A Namib sand gecko moves like a whisper across dunes, licking the moisture from its eyes. Mainly nocturnal, they have several adaptations to survive in this harsh desert – including webbed feet. Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia. © Dewald Tromp
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A soggy king withstands an African tempest. After a deluge, Olepolos – the Topi pride’s rain-drenched monarch – performs his mane-flinging finale. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Ivan Glaser

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