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SCAR/COMNAP Photographic Competition 2012

Our Antarctica – images from the Great White South

The competition, held in early 2012, resulted in submissions from 22 countries from both scientists and logisticians. An international jury selected 53 of them for exhibition and both Winners and Highly Commended for each category. The grant from COMNAP allowed them to be printed and framed for exhibition and it is intended to exhibit them in several other countries over the next two years.

Antarctic People
Winner: Victor Troyanov (Bulgaria) Russian Orthodox priest travelling to work

Highly Commended: Philip Currie (Canada) Collecting Dinosaurs on Mount Kirkpatrick, Antarctica						Highly Commended: Andrey Listopadov (Russia) A Long Way Home: an impression

Antarctic Places
Joint Winner: Martin Pratt (USA) The Palmer at McMurdo

Joint Winner: René Robert (Belgium) Abandoned Sledge, ASUKA

Highly Commended: Sueng pil Han (Korea) King Sejong Station and Korean Icebreaker ARAON						Highly Commended: Bruno Jourdain (France) Moonrise above Dumont d'Urville Station and the Antarctic Ocean

Antarctic Wildlife
Winner: Aleks Terauds (South Africa) Flying Adelie

Highly Commended: Oona Stern (USA) Gentoo trail						Highly Commended: Anne-Mathilde Thierry (France) Take-off

Antarctic Elements
Winner: Oona Stern (USA) Crevasse						Highly Commended: Martin Pratt (USA) Crossing into Antarctica

Highly Commended: Grace Saba (USA) Drifters in a Warming Ocean						Highly Commended: Aleks Terauds (South Africa) Pancakes in Antarctica