The theme for our 2024 photography competition was Transforming Life. The Society would like to congratulate the winners and shortlisted photographers, announced ahead of the Biology Week Networking and Awards Ceremony.

Photographer of the Year: Winner

Photographer: Polwatta Siriyalage Chamara Sulakkhana

Title: Emergence from Exoskeleton

Location: Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka

Photographer of the Year: Highly Commended

Photographer: Taisir Almasoodi

Title: A Portuguese plane sprays water on one of the forests where the fire occurred

Location: Portugal

Young Photographer of the Year: Winner

Photographer: Jessica Finnie

Title: Perseverance

Location: Stromness, South Georgia

Shortlisted

Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Chang Guo

Title: An Ever-Changing Iceberg

Location: Antarctica

Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Dr Jubina Balan Venghateri

Title: Sol: The Sun

Location: Department of Immunology & Regenerative Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Muhammad Syarif. S

Title: Cirata Floating Solar Power Plant

Location: Cirata reservoir, Purwakarta, West Java Indonesia

Young Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Araan Saigal

Title: Tigress on hunt

Location: Jim Corbett National Park, India

Young Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Orla Roundell

Title: Busy Bee transforming the landscape (A western honey bee on Cow parsley)

Location: Croome National Trust, Worcester, UK

Young Photographer of the Year: Shortlisted

Photographer: Melody Li

Title: Light Rails Weaving Through Chongqing's Emerald Heart

Location: Chongqing, China

Special thanks to judges

Alice Campain, CABI

Amy Bandaranayake, Field Studies Council (at the time of judging)

Claude Barbé-Brown, Wiley