Hello everyone!

We are very pleased to invite every photographer from our member associations to participate in this year’s competition,2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition.

The competition is open from May 1st, 2019 to 1st August 2019 at midnight.

The 2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition is open to all participants officially registered in an IFWP member association at the date of entry. 

It is an online competition and there is no entry fee. The participants shall select and upload their images at this site: ifwp-photo.fotogenius.

You will find there as well information regarding the rules and all details concerning the different categories to participate in this year’s completion.

There are several categories for different disciplines in nature photography, in which photographers of any age can participate.

The IFWP will announce a category winner and 3 Finalist in each category and in both groups, general and young (born after 2000).

From the category winners the jury will choose the picture to be the 2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year in both Editions, General and Young (born after 2000).

You are all invited!

Good luck to all participants in this year’s competition!

Laurence B. Didion, our fomer president of IFWP, has written some beautiful and shared feelings about our missed friend and companion Karlo.

We will never honour him as much as he deserved.

"Several years ago, as I was coming to visit the IFWP Swedish club PhotoNatura for the first time, an unknown member and his wife volunteered to put me up for a few nights. I did not know then that I was meeting my best photography partner, a man like no one I ever met before. His name was Karlo Pesjak, he was buried some weeks ago and many nature photographers, not only in Sweden, already miss him as much as I do.

We all try to live a loving life, to ve a loving individual. We help others to show our love and to be loved in return. I discovered with time that for Karlo, helping was just motivated by the pleasure of sharing life with fellow humans. He did not try, did not want, was not passionate or excited.

He was simply in love with all forms of live: you, me, this couple walking down the street, this plant here, the fox there, or anything animal, vegetal or ethereal as a beautiful landscape. And because joy suffused his relationship to the whole world he had a great warm sense of humour that showed in his images and in the way he talked about them. Though his eyes, a water spider became a satellite in the night sky, the viewer was turned into a voyeur witnessing two crows private life, common months turned into out-of-space aliens.

His love of life, his trust, allowed him to try and try again, and that is what made him so creative. It is only now,, missing him, that I realise that his art was deeply suffused by his very unique personality. It is only now that I realise how much we (I) can learn from him in relation to creativity and what being a (nature) photographer is about.

I am sure Karlo would smilingly agree with Oscar Wilde saying: «Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. »

Laurence B. Didion"

We sadly have to announce that our IFWP Board member (Vocal) and dear friend Karlo Pesjak (Sweden) has passed away recently.

He was an active member of PhotoNatura (PN) and the Swedish Nature Photographers (N). During my five years as secretary in PN and now as secretary of the IFWP there was not one single time when we needed volunteers for activities that his hand wasn’t upp. He was generous, helpful and sweet, and with his cheerful self and wonderful sense of humor always made things take a more positive turn.

For those who met him know what a big heart he had, always putting people first. For those who had the pleasure of joining forces with him in nature photography know what a fantastic photo enthusiast, photographer and nature lover he was. 

He will be dearly missed and our hearts reach out to his family.