Sleeping Polar Bear Snuggling on Iceberg Wins Photo Award
about 3 months ago (02/07/2024)
Sleeping Polar Bear Snuggling on Iceberg Wins Photo Award Skip to content "Ice Bed" (2023), digital photo (© Nima Sarikhani, Wildlife Photographer of the Year; all images courtesy the artist and Natural History Museum, London) In an era of immeasurable chaos caused by unsustainable human activity across the planet, it’s crucial to look within the natural world for order, hope, and to feel grounded as things spiral around us. The People’s Choice Award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year , sponsored and developed by London’s Natural History Museum, taps into these sentiments, inviting the public to consider and vote on candid snapshots of the world and its inhabitants in an effort to encourage sustainable practices. Amid some 50,000 photography submissions from over 100 countries, British photographer Nima Sarikhani’s “Ice Bed” (2023), a surreal pastel shot of a dreaming polar bear snuggled into an iceberg bobbing along off the coast of Svalbard, made it through the competition’s shortlist last November and won People’s Choice among four other finalists.