Remembering Bears

THE RESULTS ARE IN! Feast your eyes on the images chosen to appear in the next Remembering Wildlife fundraising book series from Wildlife Photographers United

RememberingBears will be the seventh book in the charity book series started by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett in 2016. She decided to take action after seeing a poached elephant in Kenya, and started asking fellow wildlife photographers if they would contribute images to a fundraising book – this request launched the start of something special.

Remembering Elephant sand its successors

–Remembering Rhinos, Remembering Great Apes, Remembering Lions, Remembering Cheetahs and Remembering African Wild Dogs – have between them raised more than £921,000/US$1.2 million for 55 conservation projects across 24 countries. Over 1,000 images in total were entered for

Remembering Bears, which will feature images from wildlife photographers including Marsel van Oosten, Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting, Greg du Toit and Daisy Gilardini – included under the ‘Wildlife Photographers United’ banner – plus nine readers of DigitalCamera, who answered the call to enter images in our Spring issue (254).

About the winning images

To be chosen to appear in Remembering Bears, readers had to submit images of bears taken in the wild, of any of the eight species of bear: American black bears, Andean bears, Asiatic black bears, brown bears, giant pandas, polar bears, sloth bears and sun bears. The judges were looking for striking and beautiful images, true to the original scene, with nothing added or taken away. Editing should have been kept to a minimum.

Buy the book, then visit the exhibition

Remembering Bears will be published on 10 October 2022, price £45. Each winner will receive a copy of the book and an invitation to the launch event at London’s Royal Geographical Society on 13 October. Prints of the winning images will also appear in the London exhibition to launch the book, and those prints will subsequently be sold to raise further money for the cause.

Formoreinformationabouttheseries, visit: www.rememberingwildlife.com

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1 ‘Arctic Future’ by Amit Eshel. Location: Kaktovik, Alaska. Species: Polar bear

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2 ‘The Waiting Game’ by Dave Sandford. Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Species: Polar bear

3 ‘Bashful bear’ by Joshua Holko. Location: Monbukta, Svalbard, the Arctic Ocean. Species: Polar bear

4 ‘Bear in a bear’ by Sabrina Schumann. Location: Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Species: American black bear

5 ‘Polar sparring’ by Rick Beldegreen. Location: Hudson Bay, Canada. Species: Polar bear

6 ‘Lay me down to sleep’ by Julie Oldroyd. Location: Kaktovik, Alaska. Species: Polar bear

7 ‘Sloth Bear Fight Sequence: The Battle’ by Anjali Singh. Location: Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India. Species: Sloth bear

8 ‘Curious’ by Taylor Albright. Location: Alaska. Species: Brown bear

9 ‘Mother knows best’ by Marion Vollborn. Location: British Columbia, Canada. Species: Brown bear

10 ‘Balance’ by Marion Vollborn. Location: The Arctic Circle, Canada. Species: Brown bear