REMEMBERING APES
SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES of gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and chimpanzees for the chance to be featured in the next in the Remembering Wildlife fundraising book series, Remembering Great apes
RemembeRing Great Apes will be the third book in a charity book series started by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett in 2016. Margot was prompted to take action after seeing a poached elephant in Kenya and started asking fellow wildlife photographers if they would contribute to a fundraising book. Now Remembering Elephants and its successor Remembering Rhinos have raised more than £300,000 for conservation projects via The Born Free Foundation. Taking the series into 2018, Margot has announced that the next book in the series will be Remembering Great Apes – and photographers such as Tim Laman, Anup Shah, Art Wolfe and Frans Lanting have already committed to donating images for the release.
The work of up to 65 wildlife photographers will be included under the banner of ‘Wildlife Photographers United’ – and that’s where you come in. As with Remembering Rhinos in 2017, the publishers have teamed up with Digital Camera to find a further 10 images for Remembering Great Apes via a competition – and one could be yours!
What to submit
We are looking for images taken in the wild only (no zoos or sanctuaries please) of gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and chimpanzees. The judges are looking for striking and beautiful images, which are true to the original scene with nothing added or taken away. There should be minimal image-editing.
the prizes
The 10 winning photographs will be printed in the Remembering Great Apes book alongside those of some of the world’s best wildlife photographers. The images will also be printed in Digital Camera. Each winner will receive a copy of Remembering Great Apes and an invitation to attend the exhibition private view, scheduled for Wednesday 17th October 2018.
Prints of the winning images will also appear in the London exhibition to launch the book, and those prints will then be sold to raise further money for the cause.
How to enter
You’ll need to upload your pictures at the official competition page (www. rememberinggreatapes.com/ photo-contest), where you’ll find terms and conditions. The entry fee for your first image is US $10, with any subsequent images costing US $5 each. All funds raised after costs will go to conservation projects. The deadline is Sunday 29 April.