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Photographer of the Year celebrates photographic craft and those moments that make our society and environment unique.
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MAY 2, 2025
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A new issue is wending its way towards you—for subscribers it will arrive in your letterbox, for all others, find it on shelves in supermarkets and bookstores or hit up your mates to borrow theirs. NZGeo has the highest "pass-on" rate of any magazine we know of, making it the most stolen magazine in the country—a metric we're very proud of :) This issue has a raft of incredible stories. One about wild pigs eating our most endangered native frogs—one pig was found with 56 frogs in its stomach! Another feature investigates attempts to grow vast quantities of unusual seaweed that, when used in feed supplements, can dramatically reduce methane emissions from cows, offering a solution to one of this country's largest greenhouse gas sources. The images look like something out of The Matrix. More stories on the last refuge for giant wētā in the Southern Alps, the unique sport/practice/undefinable discipline of marching in New Zealand, and a wild, muddy story about walking Te Araroa. There are few magazines that could embrace this selection of topics within their covers, so find your copy of this fantastical new edition wherever you can... even if you need to steal it. In the meantime, we've just opened the the 2025 Photographer of the Year competition, with new categories, new awards and new prizes—there's $8000 cash up for grabs, $6200 worth of Nikon camera gear and a Heritage Expeditions voyage to Antarctica worth $16,500. See more below. |
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PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Contribute your best work to Photographer of the Year 2025Entries are now open for Photographer of the Year, New Zealand’s largest and most prestigious photographic event. Photographer of the Year celebrates photographic craft and those moments that make our society and environment unique. There will be an exhibition in Britomart, Auckland and across the country on Lumo’s digital billboards. Winners will be announced at an awards night in Auckland in October. There is $8000 cash up for grabs, $6500 worth of camera gear from Nikon, and a voyage from Heritage Expeditions worth $16,500. The Nikon Photographer of the Year will be picked from all entrants, as will the Resene Colour Award, the Genesis Young Photographer of the Year and Senior Photographer of the Year. Categories include Resene Landscape, Heritage Expeditions Wildlife, Motat Aerial, Resene Built Environment, Simplicity Portrait, Society, Adventure and Photostory. There is also a new Astrophotography category, sponsored by Stardome. All photos must have been shot after January 1, 2024 (except PhotoStory, after Jan 2023) and within New Zealand territory—including New Zealand-administered Pacific and Antarctic dependencies. A maximum of 26 entries per entrant over the seven categories (in other words 20 images and one set comprising four to six images in the Photostory category). All finalists will have a crack at the Ockham Residential People’s Choice award, voted on by the general public. A new Te Ao Māori award, for excellence in coverage of kaupapa Māori subjects (whether or not the photographer is whakapapa Māori), is also new this year. (Read the full terms and conditions.) |
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Photographer of the year Here’s how you win
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