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Many of the winning images from Travel

Photographer of the Year are awe-inspiring.

Here we present some of our favourites

N

ow entering its
18th year, Travel
Photographer of the
Year 2019 attracted
more than 20,000 entries from
144 different countries. The overall
winner, Katy Gómez Catalina, is an
amateur photographer and doctor
of veterinary science from Spain.
She’s the first Spanish winner
of the competition, and only the
second female to take home the
overall prize.
Eleven-year-old Indigo Larmour
from Ireland won the Young Travel
Photographer of the Year category,
while British photographers Paul
Sansome and Geoff Shoults won the
Art of Travel portfolio category and
the Single Image in an Art of Travel
portfolio award, respectively.
Other British winners included
Will Burrard-Lucas, Sumit Dua and
Kiran Ridley, while Glynis Shaw,
Paul McKenzie, David Alpert,

Nicola Young, Stuart Price, Benson

Spiers, James Lindsay, Kaim Ladak

all had runner-up or commended

images, too.

Across the categories,

photographers won prizes including

cash bursaries, Fujifilm X-T3

cameras with lenses, Swarovski

Optik binoculars, various travel

experiences, books, tuition, prints

and membership of the Royal

Photographic Society – all worth

keeping in mind as a competition to

enter this year.

Exhibition

From 7 April to 12 May, the winning

images will go on display in Coal

Drops Yard, King’s Cross, which is a

brand new location for the London

exhibition. They will also be

displayed at Chester Cathedral in

June. For more information, and to

see even more winning and

shortlisted images, visit tpoty.com.

Alain Schroeder, Belgium

Winner, Endangered

Planet Portfolio

Belgian photojournalist Alain

Schroeder founded Reporters, a

well-known photo agency in Belgium.

He has illustrated more than 30 books,

and has been published in titles such as

National Geographic and Paris Match.

This photograph shows Fahzren the

orangutan undergoing a routine

medical check at a quarantine centre

in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

Fahzren is 30 years old and comes

from a zoo in Malaysia where he has

lived since he was small. His medical

condition is fine, but he does not have

the skills to survive in the wild.

Fujifilm X-Pro2, 14mm, 1/140sec at f/3.2, ISO 1600

© K AT Y GÓMEZ CATALINA / TPOT Y

© ALAIN SCHROEDER/TPOTY