Global Arctic Photographer of the Year Award announced

Joshua Holko was recently named winner of the grand prize of 2015 Global Arctic Photographer of the Year awards. In total, Holko received five medals across the different categories, including Gold, Silver and the FLAP Special award in two categories as well as the overall Grand Prize of 2015 Global Arctic Photographer of the Year. He is also the first photographer outside of Norway to win the grand prize.

"Winning the Global Arctic Photographer of the Year award is a huge thrill and honour for me,” Holko said. “The incredibly high standard of photographic work being produced in Europe is very intimidating and I am deeply humbled to have had my work chosen from a pool of such amazing photographs and amazing photographers.”

According to their website, the purpose of the Global Arctic Awards contest is to “show the magnificence of the diverse North and Arctic world through photography. The contestants works represent the beautiful variety of northern nature and wildlife, depict the peculiarities of the “icy” world of the Arctic, and narrate unforgettable photo stories about the culture, life and centuries-old customs of the Northern minorities.”

About Joshua Holko

Born in Melbourne, professional photographer Joshua Holko is a landscape, nature and wilderness specialist, and his work focuses heavily on Polar and sub-Polar regions of the globe. Holko is a fully accredited Master of Photography and member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers. In 2014, he won the AIPP (national) Science, Environment and Nature Photographer of the Year, as well being named the Victorian Epson Professional Photographer of the Year. For the state competition, we was the Science, Environment and Nature Photographer of the Year and Creative Photographer of the Year. One of his images was also awarded Highest Scoring Print on the Year.

Holko runs workshops and expeditions for other photographers to some of the world’s wildest and remotest regions.