CIWEM's celebration of environmental photography goes back a long way, with its original photographic competition the brain child of my former colleague, Bob Odell, former editor of CIWEM's magazine and a keen photographer himself. From a photographic competition for members from which an annual QWEM calendar was created, the Environmental Photographer of the Year (EPOTY), sprang. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary in its current form, EPOTY attracts entries from both amateur and professional photographers from across the globe. This year saw the competition host a list of celebrity judges and attract its usual high level of environmental photography, highlighting challenges, moments of poignancy, beauty, disorder and touching reminders of the capacity of the human spirit to overcome adversity.
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