Winning pictures of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 show World Heritage

Winning pictures of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 show World Heritage

A girl who stares at the distance, two Chinese coal workers who joke during a break and a pallas cat that is in the snow in Mongolia are among the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 Competition.

an impressive visual experience

The remarkable collection of the winners Photos offers an incredible visual journey around the world and keeps its breathtaking moods and colors firmly, ”according to an explanation of the organizers of the competition.

overall winner Piper Mackay

The American photographer Piper Mackay was awarded the overall victory for her pictures, all of which have a unique color and were taken with infrared light. This technique gives its portraits of African women and their recordings of giraffes that pull in Kenya via grass -covered levels. In the press release,

Mackay said: "This award completes my passion and work in Africa over more than two decades." She added that her philosophy is to “never let the photo dictate the experience, but always experience the photo.”

award winners in different categories

The jurors searched over 20,000 pictures of photographers from more than 150 countries to choose Mackay to the overall winner. Other contributions in individual categories were also rewarded.

The Mexican photographer Maricruz Sainz de Aja won in the category “Faces, People, Cultures” for her pictures that represent the life of the Wauga tribe in New Guinea.

Jenny Stock from the United Kingdom took first place in the “Wildlife, Nature and Underwater” category with their photos, which hold the cold, merciless majesty of Krokodils in Cuba.

young talents among the award winners

The Chinese photographer Raymond Zhang was awarded a Young Travel Photographer of the Year for his urgent photos of workers and trains in a Chinese coal mining, while the 12-year-old Leonardo Murray in the category under 14 was awarded for his abstract recordings by dunes in the Namib desert.

Visit the exhibition

All award -winning photos can be viewed on the competition website, as well as in an exhibition in the Banbury Museum and Galleries near Oxford, united Kingdom, from March 29 to July 7. Then the exhibition will travel to the United Arab Emirates and to Changsha, China.