The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition 2011 review
As difficult as it might appear to take a standard, annual, competition based exhibition and make it captivating each and every time, the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year nails it year in year out. The 2011 exhibition is no exception. As well as a moving, perfectly composed winning entry, there is a huge range of jaw dropping photography to make the exhibition great once again.
The winning wildlife photographer for 2011 was Daniel Beltra for the final shot in his submission into the photojournalist category of the competition, The Price of Oil. Emotive, horrific and surreally entrancing, the photograph is of a group of rescued brown pelicans at a temporary bird sanctuary in Fort Jackson, Louisiana following the BP oil spill disaster.
There are lots of other types of photographs on display too ranging from the cute face of a young golden snub nosed monkey huddled on a branch in China’s Qinling mountains (Cyril Ruoso, runner up in the 2011 Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife) to the risky shot of a polar bear swimming at close range with three quarters of the camera submerged showing the polar bear’s body treading water (Joe Bunni, winner of the Behaviours Mammals Award).
As ever, The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition 2011 is stunning, visually poetic, meaningful and distinct in the extreme. It’s ace if you need to impress you’re girlfriend when she’s over from the States.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition 2011 review: 5/5
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