CURRENT EVENTS
Vivian Wan, Hunter Mattz, Earth Photo 2025
Join the Royal Geographical Society, Forestry England and Parker Harris for the unveiling of this year's winners of the Earth Photo 2025 competition.
The launch event is a opportunity for members and members of the public alike to be the first to see the winning photographs and videos from this year's Earth Photo competition exhibited in the Society's Pavilion.
Join us for an opportunity to celebrate some of the best in-class environmental and geographical photography of 2025 and participate in the awards ceremony held in the Society's lecture theatre.
The evening will include a special keynote presentation by renowned expedition photographer Martin Hartley, offering a unique insight into his work and the power of visual storytelling.
Martin has spent more than 400 demanding days working in the Arctic and Antarctic on more than 20 polar expeditions and assignments. Several of these endeavours have focused on collecting data to help scientists better understand our planet.
Time magazine has acknowledged Martin’s contribution to science with its prestigious Hero of the Environment award for his research work on multiple surveys of the frozen Arctic Ocean.
In 2017, Martin joined a North Pole expedition to collect snow depth measurements for the European Space Agency's CryoSat programme, which is being conducted in concert with NASA‘s Operation IceBridge mission.
Booking information
Advance booking for this event is required. In order to book you will need an account on our website. If you already have an account you will be prompted to log in when you click 'book now'. Please create an account if you do not have one yet (you do not need to be a member of the Society to create an account).
Attending in-person
We do not issue tickets (electronic or physical) for this event. Instead your name will be on a list at the door. Please use the Society's entrance on Exhibition Road.
Attending online
If you are attending the event online, the joining instructions will be included in your confirmation email.
If you have any questions or require assistance with your booking, please email events@rgs.org
Venue information
This event will be held in the Ondaatje Lecture Theatre at The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR. Doors open at 5.00pm.
Plan your visit to the Society and find more information about our venue, including our address, accessibility and transport links.
PAST EVENTS
Join us for a lunchtime visit/guided walk to enjoy the Earth Photo 2024 exhibition followed by refreshments, outdoors in the iconic Moors Valley Country Park in Dorset.
Meet at the forest Picnic Area near the Visitors’ Centre for a brief welcome by Forestry England’s Earth Photo Producer, before a short walk out to see the photographic exhibition installed within in the beautiful forest surroundings.
Earth Photo at National Trust Attingham Park
Visit National Trust Attingham Park to see a stunning selection of the Earth Photo competition's shortlisted images. This year we see an incredibly strong field of images and video compositions which will undoubtedly stimulate conversations about our world, its inhabitants and our treatment of both. All images and video are specially selected from the competition's award categories - people, place, nature, changing forests and a climate of change.
Venue information
This exhibition will be held at National Trust Attingham Park, Atcham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 4TP.
For further information about visiting please visit the venue's website.
Climate change and the three Poles: using art to communicate crisis and opportunity
The world's polar regions are in crisis, warming faster than any area on Earth. The Antarctic and Arctic are seeing ocean and air temperature rise twice as fast as elsewhere. Meanwhile, the neglected Third Pole, the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain range and Tibetan Plateau, called the Water Tower of Asia and sustaining two billion people in the region, is experiencing 80% glacier retreat.
How does art respond to catastrophe? At London Climate Action Week, join us for a conversation with three leading female artists using a variety of media for insights from their recent projects in the Antarctic and Arctic respectively.
Polly Townsend, was recently Artist-in-Residence in Antarctica with the Royal Navy and has produced spellbinding oil and charcoal tableaux of the landscape. Alice Boyd, composer, sound designer and Artist-in-Residence at the Eden Project, has recently collaborated with filmmaker, Michelle Sanders, on the Arctic Ice film project. Moderating the conversation will be broadcaster and journalist,Isabel Hilton, who has long explored these themes as founder and former editor-in-chief of China Dialogue and The Third Pole.
Earth Photo 2024 awards ceremony
Join us in celebrating the Earth Photo 2024 award recipients, and the power of photography and film to drive positive action towards a more sustainable future.
