Episode Three: Interview with Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 winner, Sergey Gorshkov

In the third episode, presenter Mark Carwardine chats to Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 winner Sergey Gorshkov who shares his expert tips in this week's Photography Masterclass.

The series will consist of ten videos, released weekly on Thursdays from 15 April. For each episode, free fact sheets are available to download from Mark Carwardine's website.

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About the guest

Sergey Gorshkov is an award-winning wildlife photographer who specialises in capturing incredible shots of wildlife in their natural habitat.

In particular, Gorshkov's work focusses on tigers and his winning shot for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 was his magnificent image ‘The Embrace’, of an Amur tigress hugging an ancient Manchurian fir in the Russian Far East. Amur, or Siberian, tigers are only found in this region and it took more than 11 months for the Russian photographer to capture this moment with hidden cameras.

About the presenter

Zoologist Mark Carwardine is a widely published wildlife photographer, an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a best-selling author of more than 50 books, and an outspoken environmentalist.

He was also Chair of the Judging Panel of the prestigious ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ competition for seven years and was selected as one of ‘The World’s 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers’ in Outdoor Photography magazine.

He presented BBC Radio 4’s weekly programme Nature for many years and is best known for his Last Chance to See books, radio series and TV series with the late Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry. He has been writing a conservation column in BBC Wildlife magazine every month since 2004.