Three paperback notebooks bellybanded together. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition seeks to nurture an understanding of the environment through the photographer's lens, while at the same time championing new ways of imagining the world through artistic, technical and ethical excellence. Since the 1960's, the competition has been moving wildlife photography away from plain recording of species towards aesthetics and emotion, message and meaning. Its legacy is a rich archive of photographs that provides witness to the changing role of wildlife photography over the past half century.