After 4 months, countless registrations and a record 34,624 images submitted, entries to Red Bull Illume 2016 are officially closed. The Red Bull Illume team would like to thank each and every photographer who participated.

For one of his latest projects, New Zealand photographer Miles Holden teamed up with local rider Connor Macfarlane to show mountainbike photography in a new light.

Czech photographer George Karbus is a host of contradictions; he’s an underwater photographer who doesn’t scuba dive; he’s from landlocked Czech Republic but lives by the sea. Oh, and he had four finalist images in the last Red Bull Illume. He tells us why shooting for the love will always bring the best results.