The Winners Of The 2022 Underwater Photography Competition
The annual Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) competition has announced this year’s winners in various categories.
All categories include the best photos taken from under the surface of oceans, lakes, rivers, and pools.
The annual Underwater Photographer of the Year competition features 13 categories, including four focusing on images taken in British waters. This year’s winners were selected from more than 4,200 submissions by photographers from 71 countries.
The judges were delighted to see that many of this year’s winning images came from the photographers’ home countries.
Also, the UPY competition celebrates new photography talents by awarding the title of “Future Underwater Photographer of 2022” to creatives who create a new vision of underwater photography.
Underwater photographer of 2022
Rafael Fernandez Caballero from Spain won the overall contest with his photo titled “Dancing with the Night Giants.” This photo shows five whale sharks (the largest known fish in the world) feeding on nocturnal plankton.
Caballero says:
We were diving with Gador Montaner, a shark researcher when suddenly his eyes widened in surprise. Gador counted 11 sharks that night, a once-in-a-lifetime event! We were sufficiently startled to see a whale shark coming towards our boat that suddenly there were more of them.
You can see the winners of other categories below:
Behavior and my backyard
- Pekka Tori, Finland
drowned
- Alex Dawson, Sweden
macro
- Oyer Murcia, Spain
Winner of “Save Our Seas Foundation, Sea Protection”
- Tin Nevin Knock, Witna
British Waters Compact
- Martin Stevens, UK
British waters macro
- Dan Bolt, UK
British waters wide angle
- Henley Spires, UK
Compact
- Enrico Somogyi, Germany
portrait
- Thomas Heckmann, Germany
black and white
- Kerryborough, Australia
