Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022 – Second place – Katherine Lu. A blanket octopus shows off its beautiful patterns and colours, Philippines. (Photo by Katherine Lu/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022 – Third place – Brook Peterson. A cormorant dives through a huge school of baitfish, creating a series of shapes that mimic a human face, United States. (Photo by Brook Peterson/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Human Connection Award: People and Planet Ocean – Winner – Steve Woods. A free diver interacts with a sperm whale among a cloud of sargassum weed, Dominica. (Photo by Steve Woods/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Human Connection Award: People and Planet Ocean – Second place – Simon Lorenz. A dive guide cuts an olive ridley turtle free from plastic debris, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Simon Lorenz/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Human Connection Award: People and Planet Ocean – Highly commended – Josh Munoz. A humpback whale, her calf and a human, French Polynesia. (Photo by Josh Munoz/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Conservation Photographer of the Year (Hope) – Highly commended – Steve Walsh. A school of weedy seadragons – an extremely rare sight for these typically solitary animals, Australia. (Photo by Steve Walsh/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Ocean Wildlife Photographer of the Year – Winner – Rafael Fernandez Caballero. A pod of pilot whales pose for a family portrait, Spain. (Photo by Rafael Fernandez Caballero/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Ocean Wildlife Photographer of the Year – Highly commended – Nadia de Lange. Two polar bear cubs cosy up to their mother, Norway. (Photo by Nadia de Lange/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Conservation Photographer of the Year (Impact) – Third place – Dmitry Kokh. Polar bears make a “home” of an abandoned station on Kolyuchin Island, Russia. (Photo by Dmitry Kokh/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Conservation Photographer of the Year (Impact) – Winner – Simon Lorenz. An olive ridley sea turtle entangled in a mass of ocean debris, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Simon Lorenz/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Conservation Photographer of the Year (Hope) – Winner – Nicolas Remy. An aggregation of critically endangered grey nurse sharks off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. (Photo by Nicolas & Léna Remy/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Portfolio Award Winner – Matty Smith. A split-shot of a great white shark. (Photo by Matty Smith/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Portfolio Award Winner – Matty Smith. A male cuttlefish, still displaying its courting colours, next to the ink of two other males that had been fighting over a female. (Photo by Matty Smith/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Portfolio Award Winner – Matty Smith. Anemone fish in their colourful home. (Photo by Matty Smith/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Ocean Conservation Photographer of the Year (Impact) – Second place – Rafael Fernandez Caballero. A dead sperm whale, beached and bloody, its tail showing signs of entanglement, Mexico. (Photo by Rafael Fernandez Caballero/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Female Fifty Fathoms Award – Brooke Pyke. Two Stokes’s sea snakes mating, Western Australia. (Photo by Brooke Pyke/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Female Fifty Fathoms Award – Brooke Pyke. A whale shark, and company, Western Australia. (Photo by Brooke Pyke/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





Female Fifty Fathoms Award – Brooke Pyke. A leopard shark cruises over the sandy bottom of the Ningaloo Reef lagoon. (Photo by Brooke Pyke/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)





The Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022 – Winner – Ben Thouard. A surfer battles with the underwater turbulence created by the “heaviest wave in the world” – Teahupo’o – which translate as “place of skulls”, French Polynesia. (Photo by Ben Thouard/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022)