Breaking Ground: Land, Livelihoods, and Loss

• Prize
  Curator Selection
• Photographer
  Georgina Goodwin, Kenya
• Date of Photograph
  December 2025 to April 2026
• Category
  Africa
• Studio
  GGI Media
• Website
  http://www.georginagoodwin.com
• Instagram
  ggkenya

In Kenya’s Nyekweri forest ecosystem, land once held communally is being divided into fenced plots for settlement, farming, and grazing. As forests shrink and movement corridors narrow, people, livestock, and wildlife are forced into increasing overlap. These photographs explore the quiet tensions of a changing landscape, where livelihoods, conservation, and survival now exist side by side in one of the last remaining habitats of the giant ground pangolin in Kenya, revealing how ecological change is reshaping both land and daily life across the ecosystem over time and space.

Georgina Goodwin is a Kenya-based documentary and conservation photographer with over 20 years of experience working across Africa. Her work focuses on community-led conservation, Indigenous knowledge, and the connection between people and place.
Georgina is an Associate Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, Canon Ambassador 2018-2021, and founder of GGImages Media, where she mentors photographers and champions ethical visual storytelling.

Awards Selected Awards & Recognition
• Remembering Giraffes 2026: Global Winner + image in book publication.
• Siena Photo Awards: Honorable Mention 2026
• British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity Award & Grant Winner (2019)
• Siena Photo Awards Finalist 2020
• Paris Photo Prize Px3 Winner 2020
• World Water Day Photo Contest Winner 2019
• International Photography Awards — Multiple Honorable Mentions
• Prix Pictet Photography & Sustainability Nominee 2015
• Kenya Photo Awards — News Photographer of the Year 2013, Daily Life Photographer of the Year 2016