Blancpain x PADI

Exploration Photographer of the Year - 2021

Awarded to the photographer who most dramatically brings the rawness of ocean exploration to life. Submissions could include record-making ocean firsts, multidisciplinary missions to map deep cave systems or scientific expeditions to discover unknown places or species. What does ocean exploration mean to you? And how have you effectively captured that through imagery?

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MARTIN BROEN,
1st place

STEVEN KOVACS,
2nd place

MATTY SMITH,
3rd place