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Every year, the peaks and troughs of existence in New Zealand are visually summarised in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition.
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AUGUST 30, 2024
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We publish beautiful, moving stories on the regular. Many of them of them are popular too, slowly building an audience by word of mouth across months. The announcement of the finalists for the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year is different. Each year, this is the cue for readers to push aside what they're doing and click the link. Piling in by the tens of thousands. Trying to melt our server. This is the enduring popularity of photojournalism. It's real. It makes you feel something. In this way, the best images are either windows or mirrors. One a sort of portal into a world we rarely inhabit, another that is familiar, like a reflection of ourselves. Both present an opportunity to learn. When you view the images this year, pause to think about what they tell you about the environment and society we share, and vote for the ones that transport you somewhere else, or reset your vision of who we are as Kiwis. |
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Photographer of the Year A year in photosEvery year, the peaks and troughs of existence in New Zealand are visually summarised in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition. This year, 69 finalists are the pixel-perfect description of 2024—from wild beauty to destructive wild fires, ocean depths to mountain tops, triumph and tragedy. We have portraits of local heroes, celebrities and family. Each has been judged for its photographic brilliance, but now it’s your turn to tell us which images resonate most with you. Visit the exhibition in the atrium at Britomart, Auckland, and vote for five of your favourites for the People’s Choice award online... |
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TECHNOLOGY Robots to the rescue“Kelp forests, those deep invertebrate communities, they’re all at risk of just being wiped out,” says University of Auckland’s Arie Spyksma. “But before we can really manage them, we need to understand the scale of the problem. Where are they occurring? Where are the hotspots?” Enter the robots. Spyksma and collaborators from Tasmania—where the urchin Centrostephanus is predicted to demolish 50 per cent of kelp forests within six years if large-scale control doesn’t happen—are enlisting artificial intelligence to speed up the science and keep pace with rapidly changing ocean ecosystems. |
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