2015 Photo Competition

Meet our 2015 photo competition judges

Clement-Chenost
Nathan Dappen
Dan Lert
Dan Lert
Susan
Susan Onyango
Eko
Eko Prianto
Pilar Valbuena
Pilar Valbuena

We put out a call to the world to send us images of landscape connections. Here is the full collection of photographs entered into the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum Photo Competition, from which the jury and voters selected their winners.

Fetching water in the Tsiribihina River in Madagascar
Photo by Elena Skalovskaia
Vote count:  9

Senegalese rice farmers
Photo by Maria Holzinger
Vote count:  6

Deforestation and waste
Photo by Samson Omokanye
Vote count:  104

Gentleman of the seas
Photo by Susan Baltazar
Vote count:  13

Yatara
Photo by Mukesh Khugsal
Vote count:  161

Apatani Wet Rice Cultivation
Photo by Sirsendu Gayen
Vote count:  40

Artisanal ship building in Perú
Photo by Manuel Guariguata
Vote count:  22

Tree of life
Photo by Jaya Setiawan Gulo
Vote count:  4096

A harmonious landscape in the China mountains
Photo by Olivier Rousselle
Vote count:  31

Life in the desert
Photo by Gabriel Arango
Vote count:  21

Save the forest together
Photo by Jonathan Guyot
Vote count:  69

Between lichens
Photo by Balasz Garamszegi
Vote count:  7

Waterfall
Photo by Charu Verma
Vote count:  18

Yosemite dry valley
Photo by María Alejandra Escalante
Vote count:  8

Passing
Photo by Ricky Martin
Vote count:  16

Potato Ride
Photo by Kevin Midigo
Vote count:  16

Autumn
Photo by Péter Garamszegi
Vote count:  9

Woman at work
Photo by Ketut Arnaya
Vote count:  99

Feeding body and soul
Photo by Lin Cassidy
Vote count:  283

Keystone species with significant roles in ecological dynamics
Photo by Evan Kimani Muruku
Vote count:  18

Brilliant Amazon River
Photo by María Alejandra Escalante
Vote count:  14

The green carpet
Photo by Jane Zerubabel
Vote count:  21

Landscape of Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary
Photo by Nidhi Srivastava
Vote count:  18

Balaton sunset
Photo by Péter Garamszegi
Vote count:  9

In the middle of the game
Photo by Icaro Cooke
Vote count:  192

The connection
Photo by Michael Langford
Vote count:  135

Agriculture on the slopes of Mount Elgon
Photo by Malte Peter Øhlers
Vote count:  11

Morning breeze in Borneo
Photo by Sopian Hadiwijaya
Vote count:  68

Sawmill communities
Photo by Samson Adetona
Vote count:  142

Harvest season
Photo by Taufik Hidayat
Vote count:  29

Flower bath
Photo by Simone Cmoon
Vote count:  38

Running out of water
Photo by André Hemelrijk
Vote count:  8

Misty haze
Photo by Ricky Martin
Vote count:  24

Community collaboration to fight climate change
Photo by Manon Koningstein
Vote count:  14

Animals and elements in symbiosis: the Okavango Delta
Photo by Romy Chevallier
Vote count:  12

Pupuan rice terraces
Photo by Ketut Arnaya
Vote count:  77

Palestine sunbird
Photo by Mohamed Shebl
Vote count:  174

Baboon
Photo by Mohamed Shebl
Vote count:  161

Growing tea into the Wild
Photo by Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
Vote count:  111

The Decay
Photo by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Vote count:  13

Nature’s wildest
Photo by Viktor Krizik
Vote count:  8

Physical strength, nurtured by nature
Photo by Wilson John Barbon
Vote count:  31

Marine wonder in danger
Photo by Susan Baltazar
Vote count:  28

Traditional salt maker
Photo by Ketut Arnaya
Vote count:  76

Cederberg mountain farm house
Photo by Jonas Geschke
Vote count:  33

Nature’s mirror
Photo by Amber Srivastava
Vote count:  34

Firewood supply
Photo by Tolojanahary Ranaivosoa
Vote count:  14

A chalet in mountain ecosystems
Photo by Olivier Rousselle
Vote count:  33

All season farming
Photo by Shweta Adhikari
Vote count:  30

MianShan Buddhist remoteness
Photo by Antonis Stylianou
Vote count:  19

Falcon in captivity
Photo by Héctor Cisneros Moncloa
Vote count:  696

Fishermen
Photo by Putu Agung Wiaskara
Vote count:  22

Livestock, main cause of deforestation
Photo by Jonathan Guyot
Vote count:  39

The Effect of Climate Change
Photo by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Vote count:  30

Abiding the inner Niger Delta
Photo by Peter Shapland
Vote count:  14

Mountains and ponds
Photo by Chi Keung Wong
Vote count:  8

Spring Thaw in Kotzebue
Photo by Evan Watson
Vote count:  13

River Indus
Photo by Shehzaad Maroof
Vote count:  16

Wave
Photo by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Vote count:  11

Quechua porter
Photo by Jelle Canipel
Vote count:  33

Smoky sunset
Photo by Lin Cassidy
Vote count:  243

A Path Through the Cederberg Mountains
Photo by Jonas Geschke
Vote count:  23

Relaxation in Landscape
Photo by Mohammadreza Davari
Vote count:  154

Peke-peke
Photo by Michael Langford
Vote count:  57

Traditional technologies are never out of fashion
Photo by Manon Koningstein
Vote count:  19

Water storage system
Photo by Shehzaad Maroof
Vote count:  18

Yubeng
Photo by Coline Boonman
Vote count:  34

Landscape of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve
Photo by Deepak Dhyani
Vote count:  745

Quechua farmers and climate change
Photo by Manon Koningsten
Vote count:  27

Past and present
Photo by Giulia Sbrizza
Vote count:  127

Without landscapes there would be no us
Photo by Igor Kolar
Vote count:  9

Man in the eye of an elephant
Photo by Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
Vote count:  669

Shadow land
Photo by Amanda Royce-Hale
Vote count:  61

Ninth wonder of the world
Photo by Shehzaad Maroof
Vote count:  16

Sagar fair
Photo by Puranjit Gangopadhyay
Vote count:  6

When nature strikes back
Photo by Viktor Krizik
Vote count:  6

Fishing in paddy field
Photo by Amit Khanal
Vote count:  132

The farmer
Putu Agung Wiaskara
Vote count:  19

The question of time
Photo by Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
Vote count:  106

Quinoa mono crops
Photo by María Alejandra Escalante
Vote count:  18

The power of water and rocks
Photo by Ángel Sánchez Tapia
Vote count:  19

The ladder to Heaven
Photo by Chi Keung Wong
Vote count:  8

Fishing as a livelihood
Photo by Luke Smith
Vote count:  60

A Nepalese farming landscape
Photo by Asmita Nagila
Vote count:  19

Livelihoods
Photo by Romy Chevallier
Vote count:  12

Cocococha lake
Photo by Jelle Canipel
Vote count:  31

Japan in the heart of the Banat
Photo by Viktor Krizik
Vote count:  8

Floodplain edge, edge of life
Photo by Lin Cassidy
Vote count:  259

Sustainable Land Management System
Photo by Rishi Indra Singh
Vote count:  27

Eighth wonder of the world
Photo by Kiran Nasir
Vote count:  19

Shouting for a green world
Photo by Supriya Biswas
Vote count:  18

Nor Yauyos Reserve
Photo by Héctor Cisneros Moncloa
Vote count:  714

Mystic Austrian landscape: from hills to Alps
Photo by Alice Cosatti
Vote count:  63

On top
Photo by Emil Platzer
Vote count:  17

Salinas salt farmer
Photo by Michael Fuller
Vote count:  42

Smiling child in Tsiribihina River
Photo by Elena Skalovskaia
Vote count:  21

Everything is vital in ecosystems
Photo by Min Hein Htike
Vote count:  20

Palm tree and the clouds
Photo by Ajibola Ajibade
Vote count:  14

A day in Manzanilla
Photo by Kaleigh John
Vote count:  5

Curious seagull
Photo by Nadia Aguirre
Vote count:  25

Golden rice terrace
Photo by Kiran Nasir
Vote count:  15

Llama race
Photo by Eric Chavez
Vote count:  19

Sweet lost
Photo by Giulia Sbrizza
Vote count:  121

Nature’s thunder
Photo by Bhavin Faldu
Vote count:  35

Feeding London
Photo by Katie Bracher
Vote count:  6

Apatani Rice Field
Photo by Sirsendu Gayen
Vote count:  10

Monsoon remix
Photo by Joshua Nasielski
Vote count:  8

Mangroves
Photo by Maria Holzinger
Vote count:  28

Artisanal fishing
Photo by Icaro Cooke
Vote count:  249

Salt of the Earth
Photo by Janina Grabs
Vote count:  10

What is the path to sustainability?
Photo by Icaro Cooke
Vote count:  76

Let’s Fly
Photo by Sahat Aritonang
Vote count:  61

Plumber Boys
Photo by Kevin Midigo
Vote count:  28

The Guardian of Palcacocha
Photo by Niels Ackermann
Vote count:  53

Poisonous waters of Laguna Colorada
Photo by Ana Caroline de Lima
Vote count:  15

Meat on rice
Photo by Michael Fuller
Vote count:  29

Littering paradise
Ziadah
Vote count:  76

An ecological green curtain
Photo by Jane Zerubabel
Vote count:  11

A lazy salute
Photo by Silke Berger
Vote count:  10

What is left
Photo by Diah Tantri
Vote count:  51

Health Harvest
Photo by Ethel Magaya
Vote count:  21

Eravikulam biodiversity
Photo by Jane Zerubabel
Vote count:  7

Agriculture and deforestation
Photo by Jonathan Guyot
Vote count:  49

Child in Tsiribihina River in Madagascar
Photo by Elena Skalovskaia
Vote count:  12

Road on Pantokrator
Photo by Giulia Sbrizza
Vote count:  120

Loksado man
Photo by Ricky Martin
Vote count:  29

Nieve
Photo by Nadia Aguirre
Vote count:  16

A day’s collection
Photo by Puranjit Gangopadhyay
Vote count:  10

Bamboo harvesting in Myanmar
Photo by Ana Caroline de Lima
Vote count:  10

Beach gone
Photo by Adeolu Adeniyi
Vote count:  1173

Pucusana Fisherman
Photo by Héctor Cisneros Moncloa
Vote count:  760

Confluence of world’s mighty mountains
Photo by Ikram Ur Rahman
Vote count:  1785

Highlands waterfall
Photo by Suzanne Baynes
Vote count:  10

Three stollers in the salt
Photo by Adrián Bello
Vote count:  15

The sea lion king
Photo by Nadia Aguirre
Vote count:  26

Mana: the last Indian village
Photo by Anurag Dhyani
Vote count:  1990

Dusk over rocks and mountains
Photo by Milos Jokic
Vote count:  38

On the road
Photo by Jonas Geschke
Vote count:  22

Communities, livelihoods and ecosystems in a changing climate
Photo by Monica Coll Besa
Vote count:  32

Navigating the new Amazonia
Photo by Daniel Cruz
Vote count:  13

Redia Mountain
Photo by Mohamed Shebl
Vote count:  157

Villa de Merlo from above
Photo by Carolina Burgos
Vote count:  13

Deforestation log pond
Photo by Samson Adetona
Vote count:  143

Leap of Clean Faith
Photo by Kevin Midigo
Vote count:  19

Atacama Desert
Photo by Ana Caroline de Lima
Vote count:  8

Rays of hope
Photo by Michael Langford
Vote count:  44

Dry river sunrise
Photo by Michael Fuller
Vote count:  27

Glacial Lake
Photo by Mary Kathryn Gilligan
Vote count:  113

Glacier melting
Photo by Simone Cmoon
Vote count:  35

Apatani Woman
Photo by Sirsendu Gayen
Vote count:  18

Any time playtime
Photo by Puranjit Gangopadhyay
Vote count:  9

Tifar
Photo by Briegel Bagenda
Vote count:  13

Landscape watching
Photo by Mohammadreza Davari
Vote count:  93

No trees, no rain, no life
Photo by André Hemelrijk
Vote count:  12