Drying lakes, dying faucets and the dying nature in the cities were some of the winning images captured by professional and amateur photographers for our photo competition ‘Frame It! Climate Change is in Turkey.’ The winners and runners-up in two categories, Standard and Manipulated, were announced recently. Check the photos by the six finalists and twenty other selected images.

The lonely daisy springing from the pavements of a busy street in Istanbul and the lonely umbrella over the vast land what was once Turkey’s second largest lake, Tuz Gölü (The Salt Lake) were among the images captured in the winning photographs of our photo competition ‘Frame It! Climate Change is in Turkey.’

The competition was organised by Turkey’s Climate Advocates, hoping to show that the effects of climate change are not in the distant in some far away land, but they are in fact right where we live. ‘Frame It! Climate Change is in Turkey’ generated quite an interest from 270 amateur and professional photographers from all over Turkey who competed to become part of the climate change debate. There were two categories, Standard and Manipulated, where 590 photographs were submitted.

The first prize in the Standard category went to Salih Ağır with his photo of the lonely daisy, while Tayfun Keçecioğlu became the runner-up with his image of the Salt Lake. The photo of the second runner-up, İbrahim Ayşil showed a historic aqueduct, welcoming not water but cattle over a dry land.

The Manipulated category let loose the imaginations of the photographers. Winner Noah Arjoman captured a group of grasshoppers over yet another dry land. The runner-up Melih Sular showed what would happen if fishermen sailed over concrete against the backdrop of factories. The photo of the second runner-up Volkan Zengin’s photo was a portrait of the final drop from a dying water faucet.

The jury consisted of Coşkun Aral, Executive Editor of IZ-TV, Turkey’s biggest documentary channel; Kemal Nuraydın, National Geographic Turkey’s Editor-in-Chief, actors Arzu Balkan, Yetkin Dikinciler, Tamer Karadağlı; academic Tolga Hepdinçler; General Director of one of the leading electronics retail companies Teknosa, Mehmet Nane; acclaimed director Ümit Ünal; photographer, Serkan Sedele; Hürriyet Features Editor Deniz Öner; and the Project Manager for the British Council’s My City project, Esra Sarigedik.

The winner will be awarded with 1,500 TL. while the runners-up will receive 1,000 and 750 TL. Run in cooperation in Turkey’s leading daily Hürriyet, a prize of Canon EOS 450D will be given to the readers’ choice through the newspaper’s features pages at Hurriyet.com.tr. The award ceremony was held on 28 September.

You can view the photos of the three finalists and 20 photos from the competition at:
http://www.iklimdegisikliginiyakala.com/iklim_kazanan/

26 best selected photographs will be exhibited in 7 cities (Van, Trabzon, Konya, Gaziantep, Mersin, Urfa, Denizli) in Turkey.