2024 United Nations World Oceans Day winners

Ian Bongso-Seldrup · Issue 139, Jul/Aug 2024 · pp. 31–32

The winners of the eleventh annual Photo Competition for United Nations World Oceans Day were announced during the United Nations World Oceans Day celebration at the UN Headquarters in New York. A panel of worldrenowned judges selected five (5) first place winners from thousands of global entries made by both amateur and professional photographers. The 2024 categories for photography aligned with the United Nations World Oceans Day’s 2024 theme “Awaken New Depths” and included: Underwater Seascapes, Small Island Developing States, Big and Small Underwater Faces, Awaken New Depths, and Above Water Seascapes. With each first place winner hailing from a different country, the winning photographers are: Renee Grinnell Capozzola (USA), Taryn Schulz (Canada), Andrea Marandino (Brazil), Mathieu Macias (France), Michael Sswat (Germany). The first place winners, along with the second and third pl…