After a hiatus of seven years from the
sunny city, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition has landed back on
the shores of Durban.
The internationally renowned exhibition runs
at Durban’s uShaka Marine World until September 25 and formed part of the Wild
Talk Africa Film Festival and Conference, South Africa’s premier natural
history film event. The event was aligned to the recent Durban International Film
Festival and Durban FilmMart.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Exhibition features 100 of the world’s most amazing wildlife photographs taken
by 77 top international photographers. This selection of images was made from a
massive 48,000 entries submitted from 98 countries worldwide and includes work
from South African photographers Brent Stirton, Jean Tresfon, Heinrich van den
Berg, Kim Wolhuter, Frits Hoogendijk, Thomas Peschak and Hannes Lochner.
This year’s winner of the Gerald Durrell
Award for Endangered Species is South Africa’s own Kim Wolhuter - a wildlife
filmmaker whose moving image entitled Dog
Days captured the judges’ attention and won him this very prestigious
award.
Another South African to be featured in the
top ranks is acclaimed photo-journalist Brent Stirton, the runner-up for the
Wildlife Photojournalist of the Year Award. Stirton tells the story of rhino poaching
in South Africa through six images, showing from start to finish the process of
poaching rhinos for horn sold on Asian markets.
This year’s Durban iteration of the
exhibition is sponsored by National Geographic Channels International.
Thandi Davids of National Geographic
Channel said the following about the partnership: “National Geographic Channels
International is proud to be a part of this exciting initiative that supports
the art of photography and highlights the beauty of wildlife. Throughout our
history National Geographic, via its Explorers, has been involved in scientific
research and on numerous occasions made contributions to the preservation of
wildlife. Photography has remained at the forefront of our vision and is still
one of the best ways we have captured nature.”
The exhibition is an annual event, co-owned
by the Natural History Museum of London and BBC Worldwide, and is a carefully
chosen distillation of number photographic entries from around the world.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year
exhibition will be open to the public at uShaka Marine World, 1 Bell Street,
Durban, until September 2013.
For more information contact Wild Talk
Africa on 021 422 0023 or email: chris@wildtalkafrica.com
or visit www.wildtalkafrica.com
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