Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 Exhibition

Release Date: 25-Nov-2008

A date for everyone’s diary - the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 Exhibition will be opening at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 13 December.

A winter treat for all the family, this is one of the world’s most prestigious photography exhibitions and will show nearly 100 stunning images of wildlife and nature taken by the world’s top amateur and professional photographers.

The competition - owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine - attracted a record-breaking 32,351 images from 82 countries this year. The exhibition will showcase the winning, runner-up and commended photographs, and its showing in Bristol is part of a national and international tour.

Alongside the exhibition, there will be two free talks at Bristol’s City Museum by competition judge, Rosamund Kidman Cox. Rosamund will take visitors on a tour of the exhibition, bringing the images to life as she explains what it takes to create a winning photograph. The talks are being held on:

Monday 15 December at 3.30pm
Wednesday 17 December at 12.30pm.

There is no need to book.

Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to see ‘Allotment Safari’ - a green-fingered photographic exploration of wildlife and nature on Bristol’s allotments. Local allotment holders were trained in the use of digital cameras, and tasked with taking images of the wildlife they discovered. The resulting colourful images are fantastic and unearth an amazing variety of nature - from a bug’s eye view of a veg patch, to frogs basking in the undergrowth.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and Allotment Safari run at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery from 13 December - 11 January. Full details are available at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/museums

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