Fabulous Fota-graphs!

An exhibition featuring finalists for Fota’s summer 2019 photography competition has opened at Cork Airport.

The wildlife park received over 800 entries and the finalists, which were adjudicated by photographer Darragh Kane, are to feature in Fota Wildlife Park’s 2020 pictorial calendar.

Sean McKeown, Director of Fota Wildlife Park said: “We are delighted to open this exhibition with our partners Cork Airport who have given us this very fitting space in which to display the finalists’ images. The response we got was huge with 840 individual entries coming from all over Ireland and abroad. We wanted to open the competition to all ages, abilities, from photographers with a professional lens to your smartphone user, as we feel that the experience at Fota is unique and subjective and can be captured by anybody really with a camera - and we felt these images were most apt for the 2020 calendar.”

Kevin Cullinane, Head of Communications at Cork Airport, said: “Cork Airport is delighted to host the award-winning photographs in the main terminal in partnership with our friends at Fota Wildlife Park.

“Fota is one of the major tourism attractions for visitors across the south of Ireland annually and we are delighted to showcase this world-class amenity to the international travellers that fly in and out of Ireland’s busiest regional international airport daily. We are delighted that the winning photographs are part of the latest high-profile exhibition at Ireland’s fastest-growing airport this autumn which is truly impressive.”

There were six categories open for entry and the winners and runners up are:

Best photograph

 

 

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Best photograph

 

 

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Best photograph

 

 

 

Winner

 

 

Best photograph

 

Winner

 

Best photograph

 

Winner

 

Best photograph

 

Winner