2025 Results

Tremplin Competition

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Continuing from its first two editions, the Chamonix Photo Festival aimed to highlight young talents under 30 years old.

After receiving 70 applications, the jury met and decided to support the work of Lubin Godin.

He will exhibit his images for the three days of the festival, and the printing of his works will be provided.

Lubin Godin

I will be 14 at the end of the year.
I am lucky to have been born in a relatively preserved area of Haute-Savoie, and my parents taught me to love and respect the surrounding nature.
From a very young age, I could apparently stay still for long periods observing the little creatures in the garden, and I asked for a camera quite early to photograph them. I received my first compact camera at age seven, then borrowed my parents’ old SLR, before having my own equipment.
I spend almost all my free time in the mountains, admiring landscapes and wildlife. What fascinates me is that animals never appear when expected. Even returning to the same place multiple times, you never have the same encounters.
One day, I heard Vincent Munier say that society destroys children’s ability to be amazed—and sadly, I think he is right. Thankfully, I am one of the few exceptions, because nature continues to amaze me!”

Competition

For this third year, the success of the different competitions was, as in previous years, a wonderful surprise.

In total, over 1,780 photographs were received across five categori

The list of finalists for each category is as follows.

Winners and special mentions in each category will be announced during the festival, and all selected images will be exhibited in the city of Chamonix.

If you have been selected, we will ask you to send us an email to the address concours@chamonixphotofestival.com the following files before Wednesday, July 17th:

The original raw file of the photo (if available)

The photo in the best possible quality for large format printing, ideally in Tiff format.

Water

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Damien GUIOT

Phil Garcia

Nicolas Reytet

Marcin BAWIEC

Sebastien Blomme

Yann QUETU

Olivier Micheli

February 2024, Hokkaid, Nemuro Strait, (Japan). A steller sea eagle is trying to recover its catch it did just loose on the ice while a wave is submerging the iceberg surface. All a matter of equilibrium here.. Steller's sea eagles are present in large numbers on Hokkaido, making the island a privileged wintering place for them. The drifting ice in the Nemuro Strait is their favorite place to come and fish, or to collect fish abandoned by fishermen on their way back to port, or more prosaically, fish thrown by tourist boats, which have turned what was once a tradition into an attraction. Photo taken hand-held.

Yevhen Samuchenko

Voilier longeant les bancs de sable dans les passes du Bassin d'Arcachon. Prise de vue réalisée en ULM

Raphael Quin

Brieuc COESSENS

Sylvain Cochard

Ael KERMAREC

C’est la fin d’une belle journée, j’ai pu observer de nombreuses baleines à bosse dans l’ouest de la Réunion. Toutefois, la plupart étant dans la réserve marine, où le survol en drone est interdit sans autorisation, je me contente de les photographier du bord. Juste avant le coucher du soleil, je sors de la réserve marine au niveau de la baie de Saint Paul, en me disant, « on ne sait jamais » ! À 200 m de la plage, je repère un couple mère baleineau, c’est ma chance. Mon drone me permet alors d’assister à un moment incroyable, maman se met tête en bas et son petit la rejoint. Les deux ne laissent apparaitre que leurs nageoires caudales, et commencent à s’enfoncer dans les profondeurs laissant pour seul trace, un cercle appelé « lentille ». Une vue graphique et originale d’une mère et son petit , en communion avec l'océan, et, encore une fois, des frissons pour l’éternité, merci mère nature.

Humans and Nature

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Nicolas Tissot

Nicolas Raspiengeas

Phil Garcia

KABAC Marion

Grégory Gérault

JIAN LUO

Johansen Martin

Bernard GARO

Bastien Prévost

Javier CAMACHO GIMENO

The silent plight of a sloth in a fragmented habitat. This image illustrates the sad reality of coexistence between wildlife and human expansion. A sloth clings to a gray post, surrounded by barbed wire, a cruel symbol of the fragmentation of its natural habitat. Its shaggy coat and its gaze seem to bear the weight of our impact on its environment. A habitat in peril, the scene captures the essence of the challenges faced by these arboreal creatures. Forced to cross urbanized areas, this sloth must navigate a hostile landscape, far from the trees that constitute its natural refuge. Barbed wire and posts now replace the branches that should be its domain. This situation is unfortunately not isolated. Sloths face growing threats from deforestation, urbanization and climate change. Their very survival is in question, particularly because of their slow metabolism which makes them vulnerable to changes in their environment. This image should remind us of the urgency of preserving natural habitats. Sloths, like so many other species, suffer silently from our land-use choices. Their presence on human infrastructure is not a sign of adaptation, but rather an alarm signal about the degradation of their natural habitat.

Catherine AUPETIT

Théo MAYNIER

Yevhen Samuchenko

CECILE TERRASSE

Macro & Proxy

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Sebastien Blomme

Frédéric GUITTON

Laurent FIOL

Philippe KLEIN

Philippe KLEIN

Patrick Pons

Jean-Baptiste Cazajous

Hervé GRAILLOT

THÉO MAYNIER

THÉO MAYNIER

Estelle GOIX

Nicolas Reytet

Sébastien MEYER

Théo GUILLAUME

Maëlle Hello

Animal life

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Olivier COSSART

February 2024, Jigokudani Yaen Koen park near Nagano (Japan). The place is famous for the observation of monkeys there (Macaques specie endemic of Japan - Macaca Fuscata). They receive the nickname of Snow monkeys as they do live with snow during the winter. They are mainly know here for their ability to go into a dedicated Onsen (warn water bath). Here I was looking for something different, I finally found these two macaques forming a group to keep warm (sarudango), but with the snow falling in heavy flakes, one of them was shaking his head to get rid of it, so that it wouldn't wet him as it melted on his head. I choose to usea slow shutter speed to better capture his head movement. Photo taken hand-held above the group.

Dans le silence feutré, la neige qui tombe abondamment étouffe les sons, mais pas les tensions. Quel spectacle d'observer ces coyotes se battre pendant plusieurs minutes, sous l'oeil du "Sage" ! Ils sont ensuite repartis tous les trois, au creuxde la vallée, disparaissant derrière le col enneigé.

Bastien PREVOST

I was lying on a white sandy beach with lots of shorebirds around me. This red-capped plover suddenly swatted away a fly in front of me. At the time, I didn't see the fly, I was concentrating on framing the plover.

Mathieu Breton

Photo prise depuis le bord de la falaise, en Norvège, dans la tempête de neige

Trois compères Volunteer, iles Falklands Manchot royal Aptenodytes patagonicus Photo prise au lever du jour sur la plage de Volunteer aux Îles Falklands, à marée basse, avec utilisation d’un filtre dégrade gris. Trois manchots se tiennent sur le sable humide, leurs silhouettes se reflètent parfaitement dans la surface miroitante. À l'arrière-plan, le lever du soleil peint le ciel de nuances douces de rose, d'orange et de jaune, illuminant doucement l'horizon et ajoutant une touche de magie à la scène.

Fabrice GUERIN

Fabrice GUERIN

Emmanuel MILLET-DELPECH

Combat de tétras lyre en circuit court en Isère

CECILE TERRASSE

Aurelien Fayolle

Arnaud Farré

Landscapes of the World

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Albin PANISSET

Lionel Montico

Marcin BAWIEC

L'arbre, vestige et témoin d'une lente métamorphose. Au milieu des concrétions calcaires et acides, il reste debout, enraciné au milieu de ces formations colorées, dans les vapeurs d'une eau chauffée par les profondeurs de la Terre.

Yann QUETU

Bastien Prévost

René COUDRY

Marc Lelievre

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Solène Pasquier de Franclieu

Ael KERMAREC

Ce paysage est celui du col du Mont Cenis, entre la France et l’Italie. Un matin d’automne, après le lever du soleil derrière les montagnes, le brouillard est remonté depuis la plaine du côté italien jusqu’à la limite du col, jouant avec le relief du terrain pour donner cette ambiance d’un autre monde.

Under Aurora bridge - Iceland #qliebin #northernlights #auroraborealis #iceland #night #stars #storm

Maxime DAVIRON