Siena Awards 2024

Roman Willi — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:41:16 +0000

SIENA Awards 2024

KALU – Growing Up Wild I co-directed with Matteo Clarke and produced by our company WildReach Productions was awarded runner up in short documentary. Matteo sadly couldn’t make it as he was speaking at a panel of the discover.film awards in London. Watch the moment I received the award here:

The Siena Awards were an incredible event to attend. It was great to see some familiar faces again, meet new people and attend talks. I hope to return to Siena in the future!

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year #58

Roman Willi — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 08:20:58 +0000

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year #58

My picture “When spiders get together” has been awarded highly commended in the “Wildlife Photographer Of The Year #58” competition.

Roman Willi (Switzerland) documents a rarely seen moment between two mating spitting spiders.

Roman kept returning to this spot, keen to document spitting spider behaviour and share the wonder of arachnids. They are ‘misunderstood,’ says Roman, and ‘need our help in conservation’. Roman’s perseverance was rewarded when he witnessed this rarely observed scene.

Spitting spiders are named after their behaviour of squirting a sticky substance at their prey to immobilise it. To mate, the male loads its two pedipalp appendages with sperm. The female rises and the male inserts these into the genital opening on the female’s abdomen. The female can store sperm for several months before laying eggs in a cocoon, which it then carries until the eggs hatch.

To attend the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year award ceremony in the Natural History Museum London in person was truly a dream come true. I am so honored to be part of this amazing selection of images and for all the incredible people I have met. Seeing my picture in the exhibition next to Karine Aigner’s overall winning shot was a surreal experience. I want to congratulate all the winners and hope that the images selected will create positive change for wildlife conservation. I believe that as wildlife photographers we play a crucial role in conservation by showing all the incredible creatures living on our planet.

On 13.03.2023 me and Melody Gygax of Magnum Photos led a focus tour through the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Exhibition at the Natural History Museum Basel.

Natural History Museum Basel

On 10.11.2022 I talked at the Vernissage of the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Exhibition at the Natural History Museum Basel about my awarded picture.

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Roman Willi

Siena Awards 2024