The 2025 Environmental Photography Awards Gallery winner is a collection of inspirational for the heart -tampering photographs that show how powerful photographers can be.
Annual to celebrate Albert II of the 15th anniversary of Monaco Foundation in 2021, annual Environmental Photography Award Reward and honor photographers who highlight environmental challenges and raise awareness on major environmental issues.
“Photographic art represents a malignant vehicle to raise awareness, with its immediate and universal language. This is a merit, in a virtuous manner, the process of awareness on major environmental issues, such as biodiversity, climate and ocean, confirms the foundation.
“Environmental photographers can encourage us to innovate, to invent sustainable solutions to better reconsider our lives and our economies. They reveal a real ‘possibilities’ for new generations, which aspire for a more harmful relationship with nature. Excellence, and at the top, also, and at the top, for the sake of their message.
2025 Environmental Photography Award Categories
2025 Environmental Photography Award Many areas of need have separated in five categories to highlight photography. Categories are: polar miracles, in the forest, the world of the ocean, humanity versus nature, and change in the manufacturers: reasons for hope. The winners receive various honors from publication to publication in the book of competition, as well as the Environmental Photography Award in Monaco at the 2025 exhibition in Monaco on Promanede du Larvoto, from June 3 to July 31, 2025 and on its international tour.
Five category winners receive each € 1,000 grant, as well as a grand prize winner selected from the overall category winners, € 5,000 grants. Additionally, a public award winner selected by online voters received a grant of € 500 including his winning image and residence to visit the Amazon Research Station of SEK International University in Ecuador. Finally, a student award winner, who was also selected by public votes, received the € 500 grant.
Between the jury selection and public award winners, 36 photos were selected for exhibition and publication of 2025 edition. Competition organizers shared that all shortlisted photographers would be included in the Environment Photography Award 2025 exhibition, and they would be published. Environmental Photography Award 2025 Book released in June.
2025 Environmental Photography Award Jury
Jury Environmental Photography Awards for 2025 included photography and iconic names in the environment industry, including the chairman of the jury organized by Amy Vitale: A Nikon Ambassador and National Jyographic Photographer and Diggering Film Producers (USA), Competition President Sergio Pitamitz: Conservation and Wildlife Photographs and National Jyocruster and National Jyocrisan Geographic photographer and National Geographic Photographer and National Geographic Photographer. Small vertebrae and arthropods (Italy), Aaron Gacoski: Photo Journalist and Filmmaker, Manav-Push Sangharsh (UK and USA), Tom Gilks specialized photographers, Nature Picture Library (UK), Ralf Pick Photograph (USA) Managing Director of Materials in Ralf Pick Photograph (USA), and James (Narve), and James (Narve), and Jaym A conservation photographer (Spain).
2025 Environmental Photography Award Grand Prize winner
Grand prize winner selected by jury and photographer Angel Fitter presented for 2025 Environmental photography award image in total Unseen heroWinners in the “Ocean World” category.
“We have a simple heavy task yet environmental photographers have to translate the language of nature. The natural world is definitely an endless source of beauty and attraction, but the mission of visual storytelling is moving forward to reveal the threads moving forward that weaves complex and delicate relationships that weave our own existence,” Fitter.
Fitter states that his winning image “portrays silent actions of humble beings, which still makes a significant impact on the ecosystem of the entire Mediterranean Sea – an ecosystem on which we are in turn, depending on.”
The jury and public voters were equally influenced by fitter’s portfolio. Apart from Grand Prize, Angel Fitter also won in change makers: Reasons for Hope category with image training DayDemonstration of a baby logarhead maritime turtle at a recovery center in Spain. His two more images were shortlisted in the Ocean Wolds category: Night hunter (White-Spoted Octopus, Spain, 2024) and Beauty languages (Mediterranean ‘Fried Egg’ Jelifish, Spain, 2024).
A collection of powerful nature photography
2025 Environmental Photography Award winning and shortlist gallery Some of the most powerful nature photography in a collection is a curating meeting of contemporaries around the world for a glimpse through the lens.
“In the last fifty years, we have lost 73% of the world’s wildlife. This apparent reality underlines the immediate biodiversity crisis that comes before us. The future of our planet is in our hands, and we cannot feel overwhelmed or hope that another problem will solve another problem.
“Photography plays an important role in highlighting individual welfare and interrelations of environmental health. Images interact and consider how we can protect and value these irreparable environment throughout the planet. They cut through indifference, bite the reality, catch the sympathy, and through this scene, we all make the hilight. “I hope these pictures and stories motivate more of us to transition from passive observation to active advocates for our planet.”
Lion Mane Jellyfish, Greenland, 2019
Himshils flows at Joecuslone Glassel Lagoon, Iceland, 2024
Battle between two women musk oxen, Norway, 2021
Between two male stag beetle, Italy, 2022
Koho Calman and Juvenile, USA, 2023
Andian Bear, Colombia, 2023
Insects take out the sand from their boar, Spain, 2023
Paper is located on a group of Nottilus Salps, Philippines, 2024
Leafy seadragon, Australia, 2024
A tiger farm, Thailand, elderly at 2023
Elephants in the middle of the sea sea, Sri Lanka, 2023
Rattlesnakes, Texas, United States, 2020 in a pit
A recovery center, Spain, 2022 Babyloggerhead C Turtle
Veteran Armdilo’s claws, Pantanal Area, Brazil, 2023
Rehabilitation, Brazil, youths going through 2024 era
Tapir saved from fire, Pantnal Region, Brazil, 2024
Sumtran Tiger, Indonesia, 2021
Image Credit: All photos were attributed individually and the Monaco Foundation was awarded courtesy of Prince Albert II of the Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards 2025.