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The winner of the ‘Scientific Photography Contest of the Year’ awarded by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) has been decided.
RPS has established and awarded annual awards to demonstrate the impact of science on people’s everyday lives and to illustrate the global crisis and the causal relationship between science. RPS announced on the 12th that four of the more than 1,000 nominations submitted last year were selected as winners.
The ‘Climate Change Category’ was won by British photographer Sue Flood. In the image taken by Flood, a sign saying ‘North Pole’ is in danger on the glacier just before it melts and disappears, clearly showing the climate change crisis brought on by global warming. The scientific medium Science Focus said: “A paradoxical photographic image stimulates the imagination.”
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The winner of the ‘General Science Category’ was decided by a picture of the shipwreck during WWII by Simon Brown. A ship built in England in 1940 was attacked by German bombers and sank in the Red Sea the following year. Artist Brown extracted 15,005 photos containing the wreck information and then adjusted the angle to reveal the shape of the ship. Shipwrecked areas are now a popular place to dive, and boats are slowly becoming part of the local coral reef.
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The winner of the ‘Young Scientific Photographer’ category awarded to artists under 18 was decided as a rainbow shadow selfie. Twelve-year-old Katie Appleton, who took the photograph, cast a shadow on the wall to make the rainbow made with prisms more visible. “This photo shows that anyone, regardless of age or equipment, can take scientific photographs,” Appleton said in his speech.
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Raymond Chang decided the winner of another “young scientific photographer”. Zhang was honored with a photograph of the ‘Chicken Lion’ photographing a concentrated solar power plant in China.
Michael Pritchard, Director of Education and Public Relations for RPS said: “This year’s science photo submissions are more related than ever to climate change and crisis.”
The winners were scheduled to be exhibited at the 2021 Manchester Science Festival, but due to the spread of Corona 19, they are expected to be replaced by online exhibits.
YTN PLUS reporter Jeong Yoon-joo
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