Drone Awards 2022: Big Bang shot in Iceland wins the overall award

Overall winner of the Drone Photo Awards 2022, the major competition dedicated to aerial photography that is part of the Siena Awards, is French photographer Armand Sarlangue’s shot entitled Big Bang.

The striking image comes from Iceland and shows a secondary fissure a few hundred meters from the main crater of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, captured from above during the last eruptive phase in September 2021. The overall winning photo, selected by the jury from thousands of images submitted by 2,624 participants from 116 countries, will be displayed, along with other award-winning photos, at the Above Us Only Sky exhibition set up in the Museum of Natural History “Accademia dei Fisiocritici” during the Siena Awards, scheduled to take place in Siena from Oct. 1 to Nov. 20, 2022.

The winners of the nine categories of the Drone Photo Awards 2022.

The aligned, as-you-see-it rooftops of the Kartoffelraekkerne neighborhood in Oesterbro, Copenhagen, take first place in the Urban category. The aerial shot was taken by Ukrainian photographer Serhiy Vovk and is dedicated to one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the Danish capital, built in the late 1800s for working-class families. For the People category, the photo Sleeping on a Boat by Bengali photographer Anindita Roy from Dhaka wins. Bangladesh’s capital, located on the Buriganga River, has a river port, Sadarghat, used for passenger and service traffic. People from both sides cross the river in small boats where boatmen often sleep at night, like the one captured by the photographer.

Lots of flamingos that stay close together during the day to protect each other are the absolute stars of Solidarity, Iranian photographer Mehdi Mohebipor ’s aerial shot taken in Mazandaran, Iran, winner in the Wildlife category. Coming instead from the Namib Desert is Swiss photographer David Rouge’s photo Meeting, which takes first place in the Nature category with an encounter between desert dunes and the South Atlantic Ocean.

A bird’s-eye view of participants in the Bieg Piastów ski event held in Szklarska PorÄ™ba, Poland, brings Polish photographer Daniel Koszela to the top podium in the Sport category with the image Falling Skiers. In contrast, with the aerial shot Salt Farm Workers Harvesting, Indian photographer Saurabh Sirohiya wins in the Abstract category. The image shows the hard work of some workers at a salt farm in Habra, India, where salt is arranged in circular lines to allow slow evaporation under the sun before being collected in baskets at the end of the day.

Coming from Poland is Polish photographer Krzysztof Krawczyk’s Like a Painted Picture, which takes first place in the Wedding category. The photo depicts the sun’s rays on a body of water, a felled tree and a daredevil bride lying on top to complete the magnificent picture drawn by nature. Finally, it is Russia’s Dmitry Kokh with Abandoned Weather Station who wins in the Storyboard category. Finally, in the Video category, Italy’s Mauro Pagliai won the Pangea Prize in the Showreel section, Ukraine’s Yurii Bobyr in Photojournalism, and Croatia’s Alen Tkalcec for the best Travel video.

Pictured is Armand Sarlangue’s overall winning shot.

Drone Awards 2022: Big Bang shot in Iceland wins the overall award

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