SeaWeb Marine Photobank’s programme launched the fifth annual ‘Ocean in Focus’ conservation photography competition this week, to inspire ocean protection and a change for the marine environment.
This year’s contest will focus on the connection between humans and the ocean and will encourage photographers, both amateur and professional, to capture the positive and negative human impacts on the ocean, its inhabitants and its resources. Finalists will be chosen based on photo submissions and will then be eligible to compete in the first grand prize photo essay. SeaWeb’s Marine Photobank has partnered with Lindblad Expeditions to offer the winner a trip to the Galapagos Islands.
Dawn M Martin, president, SeaWeb, said: This inspiring photo contest has generated remarkably compelling images from photographers all around the world. To celebrate the fifth year of the contest, we want to turn the lens back on to the photographers and the rich, motivating stories they tell with their photographs. The newly incorporated photo essay component will capture these stories and more-fully tell the tale of their encounters with the ocean.”
The Marine Photobank encourages photographers to actively engage in marine issues to inspire positive change and to help conserve marine species and their environments.
