From the exuberance of a community festival at a mud mosque in Mali to the solitude of life ‘off the grid’ in Wales, from sweeping landscapes and cityscapes to the minutiae of an ant colony and remarkable, close-up detail of lions on the hunt, the award-winning images in the 2013 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) document the magnificence, beauty and poignancy of this planet and its inhabitants.
This vibrant, entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking selection gives glimpses both of cultures and places that many of us will never travel to and of familiar destinations, all captured by the hugely talented amateur and professional photographers who beat entrants from nearly 100 countries.
The top prize – the Cutty Sark Award for the Travel Photographer of the Year 2013 – goes to British photographer Timothy Allen for his B&W images of the mud mosque replastering festival and Dogon life in Mali, and his studies of individuals in Wales and Bhutan. A long-time TPOTY entrant, who has been a category winner on a number of occasions, Timothy has now scooped the contest’s highest award. His prize is £5,000 plus a complete set of Cutty Sark’s award-winning range of blended whiskies – Cutty Sark Blend, Storm, Prohibition, 12 years old, 18 years old and the highly collectable
Limited Edition Tam o’Shanter. In addition, he’ll receive a bespoke, personalised Cutty Sark/TPOTY surfboard. As Timothy is both a whisky fan and a surfer, the prize is sure to be put to good use!
TPOTY 2013 offered a great range of prizes across all categories, from sponsors cazenove + loyd, Fujifilm, Genesis Digital, Photo Iconic, Plastic Sandwich, the Yosemite/Mariposa Co. Tourism Bureau, San Francisco Travel and Sonoma County Tourism.
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