edition 2021

Environmental Photography Award 2021

Examining our relationship with wildlife means rethinking people’s place in the environment. It means forging close links with the nature around us by recognising its beauty at the same time as looking clearly at the threats we pose to its future. It also means maintaining the hope that together we will succeed in creating a new sustainable balance.

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation is pleased to invite you on this journey, through the most stunning photos that have been entered into its new international environmental photography award, launched to mark its 15th anniversary.

The choice of theme for this first edition, “Humanity - Wildlife: crossed destinies, shared territories” is significant, reflecting one of the fundamental lessons to be learned when we come out of the current global crisis: that humankind’s future is closely tied to the future of the species we coexist with on Earth. Because there can be no future in a devastated, deserted and polluted world that has lost its biodiversity.

Through the photographers’ eyes, the three categories diverge and connect – Incredible Wildlife, Wildlife in Crisis and Reasons for Hope – and engage our own reflection. The contrast between the incredible beauty of wildlife and the terrible impact of human activities on habitats, which threatens the survival of thousands of species, compels us to take collective action to support our planet’s life and health.

Nearly 6,000 photographs were entered in this first edition of the contest.