The shots of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the most prestigious competition dedicated to nature photography in the world, which reached its 60th edition that year, land in Milan. Promoted by the Natural Museum History in London, the exhibition presents the 100 works selected by a jury of international experts from the 59 thousand received from 117 countries. A hymn to the beauty and variety of nature that takes shape in a spectacular journey around the globe: from the behavior of rare and little-known animals to the mystery of underwater ecosystems, the planet's biodiversity manifests itself through breathtaking landscapes and unusual details. The overall winner is Shane Gross, a Canadian marine conservation photojournalist, with The Swarm of Life, which shows the magical underwater world of Western toad tadpoles, a species at risk due to habitat loss and predators, taken while snorkeling in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island (British Columbia). Of a completely different nature is the winning image in the Youth category, taken by German Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas: Life Under Dead Wood, which shows the fruiting bodies of slime mold and a small springtail, captured using the “focus stacking” technique in which 36 images are combined, each with a different area in focus, as these animals can jump many times their body length in a fraction of a second. New for the 2024 edition is the Impact Award that recognizes conservation achievement. The Adult Impact Award was given to Australian photographer Jannico Kelk for Hope for the Ninu, an image of a greater bilby in a fenced reserve so that the small marsupial can thrive after being driven to near extinction by predators such as foxes and cats.
Last night, Bvlgari celebrated the launch of Masterpieces from the Torlonia Collection, a new exhibit at the Louvre. As a supporter of the Torlonia collection ...