Back and bigger than ever, Nature Talks’ annual Nature Photographer of the Year competition has revealed its winners for 2022. The winners were chosen in 13 different categories after the judges considered 20,952 entries from 96 different countries.
Taking the overall top spot and a prize of 3,000 euros, Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh won with his haunting photo, “House of Bears,” portraying arctic polar bears dwelling in an abandoned house.
The photo was taken during a voyage to Chukotka and Wrangel Island in September 2021. Kokh and his fellow expeditioners sailed along the arctic coast, covering over 1,200 miles of untouched landscapes and abandoned villages, before reaching the small island of Kolyuchin during a storm. There they found its forlorn Soviet weather station which was deserted in 1992….