Nature takes center stage in the Permanent Museum with the photos of the Nature Photographer of the Year – Milan – Arte.it

Milan – In Kolmanskop, Namibia, a brown hyena prowls the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town.
Through this recording, titled Ghost town visitor shot with camera trap technology, and requiring a decade of waiting after first spotting the animal’s tracks, South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever won the first prize of the 61st edition of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Evocative and disturbing at the same time, the work emphasizes how wild nature can reclaim human-built spaces. These and the hundred photographs from this year’s prestigious nature photography exhibition will be on display at the Permanente Museum from November 15 to January 25, presented on large light panels.
Simultaneous with the Natural History Museum in London, in the Milan branch, the exhibition organized by the cultural association Radicediunopercento will offer the public a journey through the most important shots.

After the destruction © Andrea Dominizi | With thanks to Nature Photographer of the Year

A further 25 photographs awarded by the public (People’s Choice) will be displayed on a four-metre screen, with continuous slide shows, while a video room will provide backstage footage of the winning photographs, interviews with the photographers and other content related to the exhibition.
The title of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 instead went to Andrea Dominizi, the first Italian to win the prestigious prize for wildlife photographers aged 17 or younger. His image After the destruction tells about the loss of habitat of a beetle of the species Cerambycidae in a deforested area in the Lepini Mountains, in central Italy.
The South Tyrolean Philipp Egger, winner in the “Animal Portraits” category with the shot Shadowhunterinstead immortalizes the orange glow of an eagle owl’s eyes emerging from the darkness in the mountains of Naturno (Bolzano).

In the second edition, the Impact Award was awarded to Brazilian photographer Fernando Faciole for his image Be off the road. An orphaned baby giant anteater follows its caretaker to a rehabilitation center in Belo Horizonte. The mother was killed by a vehicle and the hope is that the baby will be released into the wild once he is encouraged to develop survival skills. A story of hope and success in species conservation.

The trip in Milan, organized by the cultural association Radicediunopercento, brings together the winning and finalist photographs of the competition, selected from 60,636 entries from 113 countries and judged anonymously for their creativity, originality and technical excellence, by an international jury of experts in nature photography, film, science and conservation.