Bird Photographer of the Year 2018 Winners
‘‘Black Friday’. Bird Photographer of the Year 2018 winner Pedro Jarque Krebs. American Flamingo, Madrid, Spain.
Click on the links below to view all the winning images for the 2018 Bird Photographer of the Year Competition. Congratulations to our overall Bird Photographer of the Year 2018 winner Pedro Jarque Krebs from Peru for this explosive photograph of American Flamingos. As well as winning the £5,000 top prize, Pedro also collected a pair of Swarovski binoculars for winning the Creative Imagery category with this photograph.
Buy the BPOTY 2018 book.
Inspired by all the amazing winning images? Why not buy the 2018 Bird Photographer of the Year collection from our highly acclaimed competition series, a book we are sure you will cherish. Featuring all the winning and commended images from the competition, the book is bursting with inspirational photography from all around the world. Visit our shop here.
Category Gold Award Winners
The following images are the Gold Award Winners in each of the seven main competition categories. Our thanks go to Swarovski Optik and Alamy for sponsoring the prizes for our Gold Award winners.
Category Silver Award Winners
The following images are the Silver Award Winners in each of the seven main competition categories. Our thanks go to Country Innovation for sponsoring the prizes for our Silver Award winners in 2018.
Category Bronze Award Winners
The following images are the Bronze Award Winners in each of the seven main competition categories.
Best Portfolio Award Winner
Congratulations to Petr Bambousek from the Czech Republic who won our 2018 Best Portfolio Award with this amazing set of images demonstrating consistency of skill and talent. Petr won a cash prize of £2,000 for this portfolio.
Young Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Congratulations to Johan Carlberg from Sweden who won the Young Bird Photographer of the Year title for 2018. Our thanks go to the Cameron Bespolka Trust and Swarovski Optik for sponsoring this award.
