Submissions are invited for The Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2023. The last date of submission is September 1, 2023.
The Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Sanctuary Asia magazine founded and edited by Bittu Sahgal has been in continuous publication since 1981 and remains India’s leading and best-loved magazine in its genre. After the first issue of Sanctuary Asia rolled out in October 1981, the magazine quickly came to be at the fulcrum of wildlife conservation efforts pan India.
The Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards were instituted to showcase the contributions of India’s best wildlife photographers. Every year they receive a vast pool of stunning photographs, which reinforces the urgent need to conserve India’s wildlife.
Images taken in the wild that best depict Sanctuary’s descriptor: ‘Call of the Wild’ and are suitable for submission.
The contest is open to everyone except Sanctuary employees and employees of the sponsor, or those directly associated with the organisation of the contest.
All entries go through a vigorous judging process, designed to distil the very best from thousands of hopefuls.
The panel of judges this year include Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Asia; Steve Winter, National Geographic conservation photographer; Dr. Anish Andheria, conservation photographer and President, Wildlife Conservation Trust; Nayan Khanolkar, educationist, naturalist and wildlife photographer; Prasenjeet Yadav, Natural history and science photographer; Dr. Parvish Pandya, Director, Science, Natural History and Photography, Sanctuary Asia and Lakshmy Raman, Executive Editor, Sanctuary Asia.
The judges will be looking for originality, conservation value, technical quality, subject matter, aesthetics, rarity, mood and action. They reserve the right to shuffle images into appropriate categories. They would always place a premium on ethics.
Interested participants can submit online via this link.
The last date of submission is September 1, 2023.
Email: images[at]sanctuaryasia[dot]com
