In late June, Canadian amateur photographer Andrew Interisano, who works as a digital media planner, was announced as the winner of the inaugural Urban Wildlife Photography Awards. His striking image, ‘Date Night’, showed two coyotes on a dimly lit suburban street in Toronto, Canada. The free-to-enter photography awards were the brainchild of the global photography platform Picfair. Picfair had recognised the growing trend for photographing urban wildlife – one that further proliferated during the spate of Covid lockdowns.
Over 6,000 amateur and professional photographers, from every continent on the planet, submitted their shots; animals including pigeons, foxes, lizards, raccoons, rats and squirrels were pictured adapting to city life around the world.
The winning images were chosen by Picfair’s head of content, Philip Mowbray, and a guest panel of judges who included wildlife photographers Melissa Groo (USA), Andrew Budziak (Canada) and Will Burrard-Lucas (UK), plus writer, filmmaker and author Florence Wilkinson (UK).
Wilkinson, who had her urban wildlife bookpublished by
