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A Seal's Last Sight by Audun Rikardsen, BigPicture 2026 grand prize

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California Academy of SciencesGolden Gate Park

BigPicture: Natural World Photography 2026

Now showingFrom 10 September 2026$49

Winning images from the 13th annual BigPicture competition, led by Audun Rikardsen's grand-prize photo of a polar bear at a seal's breathing hole.

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Gilded outer coffin lid of Thuya, with blue-inlaid eyes and striped headdress

Treasures of the Pharaohs

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Rose B. Simpson's car Maria, a 1985 El Camino with a black-on-black Tewa pottery motif

Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

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Sandy Skoglund, Fragile Steps (Walking on Eggshells), 1997: a bathroom floor covered in eggs

A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift

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The copper-clad de Young Museum building in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

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BigPicture: Natural World Photography 2026California Academy of Sciences
Treasures of the PharaohsPhotograph by Massimo Listri; Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICONPhotograph by Kate Russell, courtesy of the artist
A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift© Sandy Skoglund
California Academy of SciencesWolfmanSF / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
de Young MuseumGuilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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