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Maruša Puhek’s Run—two deer sprinting through a snowy vineyard in Murščak, Slovenia—is the 2025 World Nature Photographer of the Year. The image leads a remarkably varied set of winners, moving from intimate insect portraits to volcanic upheaval, working fishing boats and birds lifted by the tide.
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Puhek’s Run captures two deer in motion while keeping the snow-covered vineyard and surrounding landscape prominent. The official awards caption says the photograph came from her 366 project, during which she made one image every day and carried a camera everywhere. “This photo was part of my 366 project, when I captured one image every day and carried my camera everywhere,” Puhek writes.
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She had only a wide-angle lens with her. In retrospect, she says, that limitation helped: the wider view made the snowy surroundings an important part of the composition. The result is not simply an animal action shot; it is a picture about movement, weather and place.
The Guardian’s gallery, published on 28 February 2025, independently identifies Run as the overall winner.
Selected 2025 winners, from macro detail to environmental scale
| Photographer | Winning subject | Category or distinction | What makes it stand out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khaichuin Sim | Lanternfly | Gold, animal portraits | A close macro portrait that treats a small invertebrate as a commanding subject. |
| Georgina Steytler | Blue-spotted mudskipper at Roebuck Bay, Western Australia | Gold, behavior—amphibians and reptiles | A fish caught leaping in a territorial display. |
| Tom Nickels | Polar bear with a stick | Gold, behavior—mammals | Playful behavior, presented through the photographer’s account of the encounter. |
| Clive Burns | Red knots at Snettisham, England | Gold, behavior—birds | A flock takes flight as a spring tide forces birds from gravel bars and mudflats. |
| Robert Middleton | Fishermen harvesting anchovies off Vietnam | Gold, people and nature | A human–ocean relationship framed by the photographer’s concern about overfishing. |
| Marcio Esteves Cabral | Plants and fungi | Gold, plants and fungi | A category win that broadens the gallery beyond animal subjects. |
| Daniel Flormann | Underwater scene | Gold, underwater | An image built around the visual world below the surface. |
| Jake Mosher | Landscape | Gold, landscapes and environments | Environmental scale in contrast to the awards’ intimate portraits. |
| Benjamin Smail | Urban wildlife | Gold, urban wildlife | Wild nature observed in a built setting. |
| Ael Kermarec | Reykjanes Peninsula eruption, Iceland | Gold, nature photojournalism | A dramatic record of geological disturbance. |
Why the gallery feels so diverse
Portraiture versus behavior
Sim’s lanternfly picture asks the viewer to study form and detail. Steytler’s mudskipper and Nickels’s polar bear instead depend on an action or interaction. The official awards caption makes a playful category note about the mudskipper: “We admit that these irascible little fellows are amphibious fish rather than amphibians but don’t begrudge this chap his winning place in this category.” That is editorial wit, not a biological reference work.
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A close subject inside a large world
The lanternfly’s scale is the opposite of Puhek’s wide view, where the vineyard and snow are essential visual information. Mosher’s landscape winner extends that environmental approach, while Flormann’s underwater gold shifts the setting below the waterline.
Wildlife alongside people
Middleton’s anchovy-fishing image places people directly inside a natural system. The photographer’s caption raises concern about overfishing; that concern should be read as Middleton’s framing rather than as independently established reporting in the awards material.
Beauty and disturbance
Kermarec’s Reykjanes Peninsula photograph brings nature photojournalism into the winners’ circle. It is a spectacular image of an eruption, but the awards caption alone does not establish the volcano’s current status.
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The full awards spread
The official 2025 gallery lists gold, silver and bronze placements across nature art, animal portraits, animal behavior, people and nature, plants and fungi, underwater, landscapes and environments, animals in their habitat, urban wildlife and nature photojournalism. The selected images above show the range without reducing the competition to a single style.
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What the photographers say about equipment
Puhek says she was working with a wide-angle lens and later wished she had a telephoto lens. In an animals-in-their-habitat caption, Malini Chandrasekar specifies a 14–30mm lens used at 18mm. These are individual shooting details, not evidence that any particular lens is required for wildlife photography.
Can you buy the winning images?
The official winners page invites readers to shop wall art featuring some winning photographs. It does not establish current stock, print specifications, prices or shipping terms, so check the store listing for the image and destination you want before ordering.
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