Land Rover and Royal Geographic Society Launch Photo Contest

Land Rover’s long-standing partnership with the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG) takes a new turn in 2021. The new Earth Photo competition aims to get people out into the landscape and appreciate their surroundings.

Land Rover has a very long history with the RGS-IBG, including their flagship collaboration, the long-standing Land Rover Bursary. Since 2008, the Bursary has funded expeditions around the world, giving them £30,000 and the use of a Land Rover to help people better understand geography. These grants have helped fight malaria, studied water use in Jordan, helped build a backcountry hiking trail across the Central Asian countries of Georgia and Armenia, studied volcanoes, monitored landslides in the Alps, studied the social and cultural implications of winter in northern Europe, and studied the lives of people impacted by the environment in different ways.

The Earth Photo contest is open to all photographers, professional and amateur, from around the world. There are five categories: People, Place, Nature, Changing Forests, and A Climate of Change. The images submitted should all demonstrate our relationship to the natural world, with a variety of criteria. In addition to photographs, there is a category for short films, from five seconds long to five minutes long.

The competition will be judged by a number of Selectors who draw their talents from across the art, geography, and environmental fields. Among them is Amy Frascella, the Director of Colour and Materials for Jaguar Land Rover.

Submissions must be sent in by May 4th, with the results announced on May 25th. All photos must have been taken since January 2020. In the latter half of 2021, the winning images will be exhibited in several places in Britain.

If you want to give entering the competition a shot, click here for the full requirements and rules, and the information to enter.