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Jo-Anne McArthur
A kangaroo and her joey peer through stands of burned trees after a series of fires ripped through Mallacoota, in Southern Australia, in September 2020. Large areas of forests burned out of control during the bushfire season, threatening the habitats of many endemic animals and killing their numbers in the billions.
Winning Highly Commended in the Photojournalism category, this image – of 'signatures' made in the blood of snakes skinned by the hands that made them – was shot in Sweetwater, Texas during an annual festival. Rattlesnakes are rounded up using gasoline to drive them into the open, and are then – after a period of imprisonment – tossed into snake pits where they are decapitated, and skinned by paying festival goers. Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur described being disturbed that 'so many of the bloodied handprints belonged to children’.
At a zoo in France, a woman photographs a white tiger behind glass. A sign says not to touch. Stories of people entering wild animal enclosures to get selfies tend to baffle the public: Why would a person ever do something so foolish?
As lions sleep in their enclosure at a Lithuania zoo, a woman snaps a photo. Television and social media is full of footage of people interacting hands-on with big cats. These controversial activities may perpetuate a misconception that the large predators aren't truly dangerous.
Pikin, a lowland gorilla, had been captured and was going to be sold for bushmeat, but was rescued by Ape Action Africa. By Jo-Anne McArthur, Wildlife Photographer of the Year.