Earth Photo 2025 awards evening

Join the Royal Geographical Society, Forestry England and Parker Harris for the unveiling of this year's winners of the Earth Photo 2025 competition.

The launch event is a opportunity for members and members of the public alike to be the first to see the winning photographs and videos from this year's Earth Photo competition exhibited in the Society's Pavilion from 5.00pm.

Join us for an opportunity to celebrate some of the best in-class environmental and geographical photography of 2025 and participate in the awards ceremony held in the Society's lecture theatre.

The evening will include a special keynote presentation by renowned expedition photographer Martin Hartley, offering a unique insight into his work and the power of visual storytelling.

Martin has spent more than 400 demanding days working in the Arctic and Antarctic on more than 20 polar expeditions and assignments. Several of these endeavours have focused on collecting data to help scientists better understand our planet.

Time magazine has acknowledged Martin’s contribution to science with its prestigious Hero of the Environment award for his research work on multiple surveys of the frozen Arctic Ocean.

In 2017, Martin joined a North Pole expedition to collect snow depth measurements for the European Space Agency's CryoSat programme, which is being conducted in concert with NASA‘s Operation IceBridge mission.

Booking information

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Attending in-person

• We do not issue tickets (electronic or physical) for this event. Instead your name will be on a list at the door. Please use the Society's entrance on Exhibition Road.

Attending online

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