Photo

Professional jury

• Agorastos Papatsanis

  Greece

  Wildlife photographer. For Agorastos Nature photography is the meaning of presenting her beauty, her importance and the urgency to protect her. He won numerous awards in all main photo contest such as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, GDT Nature Photographer of the Year, Siena, MML, Asferico, Big Picture, MontPhoto and had some collaborations with magazines as the National Geographic
• Dmitry Arkhipov

  Russia

  Wildlife photographer, landscape photographer. Dmitry was several times recognized as the Best Travel Photographer of the Year (according to the world's largest photo salon Trierenberg SC), won many international and national photo contests, including EPSON Int'l Pano Awards, Global Arctic Awards, Trierenberg SC, B&W Spider Awards, Int'l Photography Awards, Int'l Color Awards, National Geographic, Golden Turtle, Most Beautiful Country (RGO) and many others. Five of his solo exhibitions have attracted more than a million visitors. Dmitry is a member of the Union of Wildlife Photographers, the Union of Photographers of Russia and the Russian Geographical Society. He has international titles: MPSA - Master Photographic Society of America, EFIAP/s - Excellence Silver The International Federation of Photographic Art
• Michel Roggo

  Switzerland

  Wildlife photographer, specialist in freshwater photography. Senior Fellow at the iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers). Author of The Freshwater Project, with 40 locations photographed in 7 years. More than 40 solo exhibitions and 20,000 published photographs. Multiple prizes winner in competitions such as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• Pratik Pradhan

  India

  Wildlife photographer. A renowned expert in the field of photography. Pratik started doing photography at the age of 13 and it all started with the documentation of nature trails and trekking which he used to do in his school days. He won more than 45 national and international awards in photography including Asferico, Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Photographer of the year, Nature in focus, China Wildlife photo and Video contest
• Svetlana Ivanenko

  Russia

  Wildlife photographer with a particular interest in macro photography. Co-founder and board member of the Russian Union of Wildlife Photographers. Organizer of numerous exhibition and expedition photo projects of the Russian Union of Wildlife Photographers. Repeated winner of the Golden Turtle, Grand Prix of the "Wildlife of Russia" competition from National Geographic, prize-winner of numerous domestic and foreign competitions
• Scott Portelli

  Australia

  Wildlife, Underwater, Aerial Photographer & Film Maker. Scott Portelli is an international award winning wildlife, nature, aerial and underwater photographer with a background in journalism and media. His photography has been highly awarded (Wildlife Photographer of the year, GDT Nature Photographer of the Year, Sienna International Photography Awards, etc.) and is recognised for its unique ability to capture rare moments in time. A member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) he is regarded as a leading professional in his field. Scott has spent thousands of hours in remote locations across the globe filming and photographing wildlife, wild places above and below the surface
• Toshiji Fukuda

  Japan

  Wildlife photographer. Winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year and NATURE'S BEST Backyards photo contests. Toshiji’s articles and photos numerous times were published in such magazines like BBC Wildlife, Smithsonian, National Geographic Japan, GEO etc. Since 1990 Toshiji has been lucky enough to be able to keep visiting Russia with the help of the Russian Academy of Sciences to photograph wildlife that used to live in Japan and Russia but now many species can only to be seen in the Siberian regions of Russia. His visits there remind him of his childhood in Japan as he can see far higher numbers of the wildlife species our two countries share. Member of the Union of Wildlife Photographers Russia. Honorary Member of the Institute of A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of Japan's Professional Photographers Society
• Francesco Pacienza

  Italy

  Chairman of the Jury. Wildlife photographer. Multiple prize winner of international photo contests. Author of numerous exhibitions and publications all over the world. Francesco has published some books on photographic techniques since 1992, from the Optical Bench to the basics of underwater photography

Expert jury

• Dmitriy Shevlyakov

  Russia

  Technical Expert of the Festival
• Alexey Perelygin

  Russia

  Ethical Treatment of Animals Expert

Jury of Peers

• Joel Delmas (France)
• Philippe Fayt (Belgium)
• Svetlana Gorbatykh (Russia)
• Alessandro Grasso (Italy)
  
• Pavel Grekov (Russia)
• Imre Herpai (Hungary)
  
• Sergey Karpukhin (Russia)
  
• Norbert Kaszas (Hungary)
  
• Dmitry Kokh (Russia)
  
• Mikhail Korostelev (Russia)
• Tibor Litauszki (Hungary)
  
• Pavel Lychkovsky (Belarus)
• Babak Mehrafshar (Iran)
  
• Kevin Morgans (United Kingdom)
  
• Tatyana Nerikova (Russia)
  
• Egor Nikiforov (Russia)
• Yelena Pakhalyuk (Russia)
• Alexandr Perevozov (Russia)
  
• Andrey Podkorytov (Russia)
  
• Nicolas Remy (Australia)
  
• Adriana Claudia Sanz (Argentina)
• Sergey Savvi (Russia)
  
• Sergey Shanin (Russia)
• Nikolay Stepanenko (Russia)
• Irma Szabo (Hungary)
  
• Libor Vaicenbacher (Czech Republic)
• Pasquale Vassallo (Italy)
  
• Ekaterina Vasyagina (Russia)
• Francesco Visintin (Italy)
• Alexey Volkov (Russia)
  
• Valeria Zvereva (Russia)