Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2024

Name: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Start: 2024-10-11
End: 2025-06-29
Location: Natural History Museum

Where? Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington When? 11th October 2024 to 29th June 2025 10 AM to 5.50 PM (Mon-Sun); Last entry 20 mins before closing Price? Off-peak from £15.50; Peak from £18 · See nhm.ac.uk Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 14, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, 414, 430, C1 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is South Kensington Circle District Piccadilly Other nearby stations: Gloucester Road Train fares

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award at the Natural History Museum, revealing the beauty, wonder and vulnerability of the natural world through 100 nature shots by the world's best wildlife photographers.

This year's competition attracted a record-breaking 59,228 entries from 117 different countries and territories. They were then evaluated by an international jury of experts for their creativity, originality and technical excellence, before being whittled down to the final 100.

The exhibition features all 100 of these finalists, from intimate portraits and dramatic landscapes to animals captured in incredible poses. Every photograph is a reminder of our planet's wonders and the species at risk of extinction, and take you on a visual adventure through glittering seaweed, dolphins swimming through submerged forests, and alongside majestic predators like falcons hunting butterflies.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition

The photos are displayed alongside accompanying videos, soundscapes, quotes from the jury members, and insights from the Natural History Museum's own scientists that show you first-hand how human activities, both good and bad, are shaping the natural world.

Winning images by Shane Gross and Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas

The 2024 Grand Title award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year has gone to Shane Gross for his ribbon of tadpoles swimming through a pond. Titled In The Swarm of Life, it captures a drove of inky-black, gold western toad tadpoles amongst towering plants in British Columbia, Canada.

The Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award went to Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas for Life Under Dead Wood - an extraordinary image of a pink-coloured springtail standing next to a ballooning slime mould.

How’s this for an escalator... it goes up through the core of a pulsating pronto-planet. It would be great if they upped the heat so you came out drenched in sweat with water pouring down your forehead, but alas, your journey through the centre of the earth is over pretty quick pic.twitter.com/IYKMTidm74
— This is London (@londondrum) December 10, 2024