Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015 – Black and White Shortlist

Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015 – Black and White Shortlist

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We’re delighted to announce that the shortlisted images have been selected for the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015 Exhibition, an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography and video. The works will be on display at the Royal Geographical Society, London, from 22 June to 10 July 2015.

111 images have been chosen for exhibiting, from over 10,000 entries. The overall award winners will be announced on 25 June, 7.15pm, in a ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society.

The CIWEM, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, is the leading Chartered Professional Body covering all aspects of water and environmental activity, sustaining the excellence of the professionals who protect, develop and care for our environment. www.ciwem.org

Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.

Javier Arcenillas, Rapa das Bestas, Galicia, Spain, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

Rapa das Bestas, Sabucedo, Galicia (Spain). A Aloitador Michael Touriño frightens the horses within the gigs to prevent further fighting. The amount of hacks that populate the gigs makes many of them fight kicking and biting.

Javier Arcenillas, Rapa das Bestas, Galicia, Spain, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

Rapa das Bestas, Sabucedo, Galicia (Spain). Hundreds of wild horses roam the mountains of the region of estrada. Currently there are over 600 horses, called "bestas" females and "garañones" males, divided in 14 herds, living free in an area of over 200 square miles of forest.

Javier Arcenillas, Rapa das Bestas, Galicia, Spain, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Barun Kr. Datta, The Power Of Ram , Chhatishgarh, India, 2015. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Des Gould, Bumper , Prypriat, Ukraine, 2013. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Md Shahnewaz Khan, Home without home , Aluminum Factory in Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2013. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environm ental Photographer of the Year

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Soleyman Mahmoudi, The Wired City, Iraq, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Soleyman Mahmoudi, The Wired City, Iraq, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Soleyman Mahmoudi, The Wired City, Iraq, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Shai Oron, Artificial Reef, Eilat, Israel, 2014. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

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Ivan Szabolcs, Man preparing horse before going to collect wood, Transylvania, Romania, 2012. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environment al Photographer of the Year

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Gustavo Adolfo Agarrado Vidal, Fires , Loma las vacas-Granada, 2005. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Y ear

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Ian Wade, In the Dark , Vietnam, 2012. Courtesy of Atkins CIWEM Environme ntal Photographer of the Year


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