2025 Shark Photographer of the Year Competition winners

Caroline Robertson-Brown · Issue 146, Sep/Oct 2025 · pp. 28–31

2025 Shark Photographer of the Year Competition winners On Shark Awareness Day, the Shark Trust have announced the winners of its 2025 Shark Photographer of the Year Competition. Entries came in from 34 countries and represented 76 different species of shark, ray, skate and chimera. The 14th of July, Shark Awareness Day, is a day to celebrate the over 1200 different species of shark and ray found in our ocean. And the submitted photographs in the Shark Trust competition did just that. From Australia to Scotland, from South Africa to The Bahamas, sharks and rays of all shapes and sizes have been beautifully photographed and submitted. From rarely seen chimera to the unmistakeable Critically Endangered Great Hammerhead Shark. www.sharktrust.org Winner: Julian Hebenstreit I took this photo at a popular dive site off Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia. The weather had been terrible all …