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• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Denis Palanque, France
• Date of Photograph
  2025 february
• Studio
  Denis Palanque Photography
• Website
  https://www.denispalanque.com
• Instagram
  palanquedenis

In Panama’s Darién region, the Embera community lives between ancestral traditions and emerging modernity. Daily life remains shaped by nature—the river for water, the forest for food, and animals cared for as part of the household. Modern elements appear softly, like the glow of a mobile phone at night. Through scenes of work, play, and connection with the living world, this series reveals a community adapting while preserving its deep bond with the land.

I am a professional French wildlife and conservation photographer working on environmental and scientific projects, conference speaker and photo teacher.
I collaborate with magazines and my images are distributed by several agencies around the world. I also work for museums, international research and conservation organizations and for more than 10 years I have created and accompanied workshops, trainings and worldwide photographic trips.
I am Associate Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and Ambassador of the Cokin brand of photographic filters.

Awards 2020
- Honorable mention winner – Prix de la Photographie – PX3 - Landscape categary

2018
- « Coup de Cœur » prize of the jury – International wildlife and nature photography festival of Montier en Der - France
- Third prize category "Bird in its environment" - Festival de l'Oiseau et de la nature, Baie de Somme, France
- Second prize categorie "Endangered bird" - Festival de l'Oiseau et de la nature, Baie de Somme, France
- Hightly commented Sony Word photography awards 2018 - Wildlife categary

2016
- Second prize category "Human and Nature" - Karoo Predator Project - International Nature Images Awards
- Winner IUCN Grant - Karoo Predator Project - International Nature Images Awards
- Finalist Award winning - category "Human and Nature" - Karoo Predator Project - Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition, California USA

2014
- Honorable mention award in the International Photography Contest Big Picture. Category: Conservation Imagery.
Exhibition August 1 to November 2, 2014 BigPicture museum exhibition at the California Academy of Sciences – USA
- Finalist, primed and exhibit at "Festival Nature et Forêt de Namur Libramont" - Belgium - April 2014.

2012
- Highly commented Vegetal Word Image award in the International Photography Contest to Mountain and Nature "Memorial Maria Luisa", in the category "Plant World". Another picture came finalist in the category "Natural Landscape" – Spain

2010
Winner for Best story - award (pictures and writing) in the" International Editions" category award of the National Geographic magazine (National Geographic Society Washington). Story "At the stalking of chytrid" – writing by Celine Lison