Winners Gallery

Freedivers from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project work to remove a large ghost net from waters of the extremely remote, uninhabited Pearl and Hermes Atoll. “This image was taken late in the field season, and I love the way the black and white brings out the hard lines and perseverance in their faces,” explains Sullivan-Haskins. “At this point, the team had been working for nearly two months straight and removed almost 200,000 pounds of ghost nets from this Marine Protected Area. This is grit, this is determination, this is conservation in action.”