Organized every two years by Patagonia Journal<\/a>, the competition celebrates the region across landscape, wildlife, culture and environmental categories.<\/p>\n Latest Videos From The 2026 edition attracted 1,826 amateur and professional photographers from 12 countries, all competing to document the unique character of southern Argentina and Chile.<\/p>\n Image 1 of 2<\/p>\n The overall Patagonia Photographer of the Year title went to Mauricio Rossanigo, who also won the Wildlife category with his touching photograph For Life, showing two Andean condors embracing near El Chalt\u00e9n, Argentina.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n As one of the Andes’ most recognizable birds, condors are known to form lifelong pair bonds, and Rossanigo’s intimate image perfectly captures that enduring relationship.<\/p>\n \n 2nd Place, Last Wild Places Category: \u201cThe Silence of the Innocents\u201d by Dario Podesta (Chubut, Argentina) (Image credit: Dario Podesta)<\/p>\n While Rossanigo captured one of Patagonia’s best-known species, another of this year’s standout images highlights the more troubling side of wildlife conservation in the region.<\/p>\n Runner-up in the Last Wild Places category, Dar\u00edo Podest\u00e1, photographed around a dozen dead pumas and foxes tied to a rural fence in an image titled The Silence of the Innocents.<\/p>\n The disturbing scene documents the long-running conflict between sheep farmers protecting livestock and native predators struggling to survive as human activity increasingly overlaps with wild habitats.<\/p>\n Image 1 of 2<\/p>\n The region’s dramatic landscapes also featured prominently among the winners. Felipe Zenotti claimed first place in the Landscape category with a stunning long-exposure photograph of a waterfall framed beneath Patagonia’s iconic Mount Fitz Roy (Monte Chalt\u00e9n).<\/p>\n What to read next<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Daniel Claver\u00eda won the Outdoor Adventure category with an image of hikers making their way towards the towering granite peaks of Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.<\/p>\n Prize winners received a range of outdoor and photography rewards. Each category winner took home retail gift cards worth around US$400 (approximately \u00a3300 \/ AU$580), while runners-up received custom hiking equipment.<\/p>\n As the overall competition winner, Rossanigo also received a Sony A6700<\/a> camera and a six-day photography trip to Chile’s scenic Puelo region.<\/p>\n You might also like\u2026<\/p>\n Discover our expert picks of the best cameras for wildlife photography<\/a> and the best cameras for landscape photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners of the seventh Patagonia Photo Contest have been announced, celebrating one of the world’s most spectacular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.digitalcameraworld.com\/media\/img\/digitalcameraworld_logo.svg\"){kind=logo}
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\n1st Place, Wildlife Category: \u201cFor a Lifetime\u201d
\nby Mauricio Rossanigo (El Chalt\u00e9n, Argentina)(Image credit: Mauricio Rossanigo)![\"Condor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/YFb3tcoNA6a8GFESG5QRNo.jpg\")
2nd Place, Wildlife Category: \u201cThe Flight of the Great Condor\u201d by Timothy Dhalleine (Laguna Sof\u00eda, Magallanes, Chile)(Image credit: Timothy Dhalleine)<\/p>\n![\"Dead](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8DGxMNXmTXrHvyHED8pg7.jpg\")
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1st Place, Landscapes Category:
\n\u201cMonte Chalt\u00e9n\u201d by Felipe Zanotti (El Chalt\u00e9n, Argentina)(Image credit: Felipe Zanotti)![\"Hikers](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RvJvGLJR2jnWPpPoqvi33.jpg\")
1st Place, Outdoor Adventure Category:
\n\u201cToward the Heart of the Mountain Range\u201d
\nby Daniel Claver\u00eda (Trail to Mirador Cuernos, Torres del Paine National Park
\n, Chile)(Image credit: Daniel Claver\u00eda)<\/p>\n