EXHIBITION & TOUR

EARTH PHOTO 2025 

 Earth Photo announces its 2025 shortlist, featuring 203 powerful photographs and films by 40 outstanding photographers and filmmakers around the world.

Selected from 1,582 submissions by 250 lens artists, this year’s shortlist captures urgent, poetic and often unexpected stories about our planet, its inhabitants, and how we interact with both.

The shortlisted works will be presented in the Earth Photo 2025 exhibition, launching online, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, and across Forestry England sites. Now in its seventh year, Earth Photo is an international photography and film competition created by Forestry England, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and Parker Harris. It celebrates innovative visual storytelling that encourages conversations about our world and the challenges we face today. The photos and videos shortlisted for Earth Photo 2025 bring us stories from across the globe, from the melting sea ice of Greenland to the vanishing oases of Morocco. They also explore the lives of shepherds in the Accursed Mountains of the Balkans, the resilience of communities in La Palma post-volcanic eruption, and the preservation of mangroves in the Gambia. These stories not only highlight the pressing issues of climate change, such as disappearing habitats, polluted rivers, and climate-induced displacement, but also celebrate human ingenuity, resilience, and the deep connections between people and their environments. Through the camera’s lens, we witness both the fragility and strength of communities facing environmental challenges.​
Earth Photo is now proud to announce its 2025 award winners:

  • Earth Photo 2025

  • Climate of Change

  • Forest Ecosystem

  • Moving Image

  • Sidney Nolan Trust Residency Prize

  • David Wolf Kaye Future Potential Award - Photo

  • David Wolf Kaye Future Potential Award - Film

  • Photoworks Digital Residency

  • New Scientist Editors Award, Mentoring with Tim Boddy, Picture Editor

  • New Scientist Editors Award, Mentoring with David Stock, Head of Editorial Video

  • National Trust Attingham Award

Photographers: Alvin Ng (Singapore) \ Ami Vitale (US) \ Ashane Marasinghe (Finland) \ Chiara Fabbro (UK) \ Filippo Ferraro (Italy) \ Ingrid Weyland (Argentina) \ Issam Chorrib (Morocco) \ Jason Florio (UK) \ Jonathan Browning (UK) \ Julia Gunther (Netherlands) \ Jussi Hellsten (Finland) \ Kazuaki Koseki (Japan) \ Liam Man (UK) \ Lorenzo Poli (UK) \ Mateo Borrero (Colombia) \ Mateo Mateo (Bolivia) \ Mikel Konate (Spain) \ Morag Paterson and Andrew Macqueen (UK) \ Nathalie Bertrams (Germany) \ Neal Haddaway (UK) \ Payal Kakkar (India) \ Romain Loubeyre (UAE) \ Sean Gallagher (UK) \ Shane Hynan (Ireland) \ Skander Khlif (Germany) \ Sue Flood (UK) \ Tamara Stubbs (UK) \ Ted Leeming (UK) \ Vincenzo Montefinese (Italy) \ Vivian Wan (USA )

Filmmakers:Adam Sebire (Norway) \  Eugene Macki (UK) \ Elisa Alaluusua (UK/Finland) \ Miranda Barton (UK) \ Berta De La Rosa (Spain)  \ Jonathan Goldberg (UK)  \ Sophia Nasif (Maldives) \ Mohammad Rakibul Hasan and Fabeha Monir (Bangladesh)

Visitors will be able to discover the shortlisted works outdoors at these Forestry England sites:

  • Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest (17 June – 3 September 2025)

  • Grizedale Forest (17 June – 3 September 2025)

  • Moors Valley Country Park & Forest (17 June – 3 September 2025)

  • Sherwood Pines (1 September 2025 – 1 February 2026)

  • Wendover Woods (15 September – 8 December 2025)

  • Dalby Forest (17 October 2025 – 20 February 2026)

  • Alice Holt Forest (17 October 2025 – 20 February 2026)

  • Haldon Forest Park (17 October 2025 – 19 March 2026)

The exhibition will also tour Sidney Nolan Trust (5 July – 27 September 2025), and the following locations: 

  • National Trust Ightham Mote (13 February – onwards 2026)

  • National Trust Basildon Park (21 June –26 July 2025) 

  • Waddesdon (25 June – 20 July 2025) 

  • Lamport Hall Preservation (23 July – 28 August 2025) 

  • Bowood House (25 July – 1 September 2025)

  • Syon Park (2 August – 13 September 2025) 

  • National Trust Hardwick Hall (3 August – 31 August 2025) 

  • National Trust Wallington (14 September – 3 November 2025) 

  • National Trust Coleton Fishacre (16 September – 27 October 2025)

National Trust Anglesey Abbey (11 October – 23 November 2025)