The winning entries in the 2022 Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) were recently announced, with the Slovenian photographer Matjaz Krivic named the overall winner, selected from nearly 20,000 entries. Contest organizers have been kind enough to share some of the winners and honorable mentions, shown below. Captions were provided by the organizers and individual photographers, and have been lightly edited for clarity.
Winners of the 2022 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
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Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2022. Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Nanyuki, Kenya: Najin 33, one of the last two Northern White rhinos left in the world, rests under the hot afternoon sun with her friend and caretaker Zachary Mutai in Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The northern white rhino is all but extinct. The two last males died several years ago. The two females are still with us but are too feeble to bear babies. In an Italian lab, their eggs are now artificially fertilized by sperm from the late males and are kept frozen, in hopes that surrogate rhinos from another subspecies can carry the northern white back from the brink. #
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Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2022. Tacande, La Palma, Spain: footage of a ravaged mountainside with a single tree withstanding the lava flow during an eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano #
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Special Mention, Best Single Image in a Portfolio, Green Planet, Blue Planet. Antarctica: Adelie penguin chicks find refuge in an intricate tunnel system carved into nearby icebergs. Using these passageways to avoid predators, they group together for safety. Leopard seals patrol the surrounding waters while skuas survey the vulnerable chicks from above. #
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Winner, Best Single Image in a Portfolio, Green Planet, Blue Planet. Okavango Delta, Botswana: A large male lion peers through the remains of a buffalo killed the day before. #
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Winner, The Art of Monochrome (Portfolio). Edgeøya, Svalbard, Norway: Walruses are among the giants of the high Arctic. This is the beach master, the alpha male. He watches as his kingdom melts in the early summer. #
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Commended, Green Planet, Blue Planet (Portfoilo). Sai Kung, New Territories, Hong Kong: A colorful kidney garden spider travels through branches, leaving behind traces of spider silk. #
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Special Mention, The Art of Monochrome (Portfolio). Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: From the start of Expo 2020 Dubai, this unique water feature became one of the biggest attractions. Visitors stop off to dip their feet in the waterfall that crashes to the ground before disappearing into the stone. #
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Highly Commended, Deserts to Rainforests. West Greenland / Disko Bay Area, Greenland: Year after year, the same natural spectacle takes place on the Greenland ice cap. As the summer approaches, large meltwater lakes appear at the edge of the ice, which are drained toward the sea by a network of streams, rivers, and crevasses. #
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Winner, Best Single Image in a Cultures Portfolio. Canosa di Puglia, Italy: La Desolata is one of the most poignant processions in the Christian world during Holy Week, in the village of Canosa di Puglia, Italy. #
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Winner, Water. Marsa Alam, Egypt: A Möbius loop underwater. Most wave photographs are taken above water from the shore. This image was taken on a scuba dive during a storm. The picture does not fit ordinary underwater photography, because it investigates the surface and not the deep of the sea. #
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Runner-up, Commended, Green Planet, Blue Planet (Portfoilo). Bonaire, Leeward Antilles, Caribbean Sea: Coexisting among this bright, yellow star coral is a peppermint goby. It sits out the day adorning the top of its favored coral head, a tiny jewel on a crown composed of millions of individual animal polyps. #
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Winner, Best Single Image in a Deserts to Rainforests Portfolio. Salar de Arizaro, Puna de Argentina, Argentina: "El Cono Arita," a spectacular geological formation where erosion has shaped an almost perfect cone that seems to be lost in a vast desert of the Salar de Arizaro #
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Runner-up, Green Planet, Blue Planet (Portfoilo). Yamagata, Japan: Fireflies in the forest on a summer night look like Christmas illuminations. They will only live for 10 days, but they shine so brightly during that time. This image was made with multiple exposures. #
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