Montier Festival Photo 2016 - Montier en Der

Vincent VIRICEL

Montier Photo Festival

Living in "Savoie" for 10 years, regular hiker and passionate about nature, I decided a few years ago to take photographies to immortalize these moments of hiking, whether it be landscape photos, wildlife, macro. For 3 years, I have been particularly interested in the field of ice. [...]

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Louis-Marie PREAU

Montier Photo Festival

In 2003, Louis-Marie Préau published his first book "Loire sauvage", which met a great success. Seventeen years later, after numerous publications such as: "Burundi" (Hesse), "Photographing nature" (Delachaux and Niestlé), "Petites îles de méditerranée" (Galimard), he undertook the realization of a new book entitled "Loire nature" in which he shares dis [...]

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Kyriakos KAZIRAS

Montier Photo Festival

Kyriakos Kaziras is a professional photographer, French-Greek, living in France. Born in Greece, he was passionate about photography and painting very early, thanks to the influence of his two grandfathers, one painter and the other passionate about photography. On his first trip to Southern Africa, he fell in love with the wilderness, lights and animals. Since then, he has continued to travel t [...]

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Bertrand BODIN

Montier Photo Festival

A renowned photographer, Bertrand Bodin is the author of more than 20 books on wild nature and the Alps. Faithful companion of the director Jean-Michel Bertrand, this artist covered in images the quest of Jean-Michel Bertrand for more than 20 years, especially for the films "Vertige d 'une rencontre, "La vallée des loups et pour "Walking with the wolves" st [...]

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Antoine LAVOREL

Montier Photo Festival

At the school of nature, Antoine is the discreet teenager who is easily forgotten in the woods. In the small hours of the day, he disappears into his blind to capture the earliest lights, observe the bouvreuils in the shrubs or sympathize with the deers. To the sweets of summer, he prefers the biting cold of winter and the mist on the [...]

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Festiphoto de la Forêt de Rambouillet (FFRO)

Montier Photo Festival

The aim of the FFRO association is to organize the Rambouillet Wildlife and Nature Photo Festival, field workshops and exhibitions in order to make the public aware of an approach respectful of the fauna and flora in so-called natural environment. Its events highlight the revealing photography of the balance between fauna, flora, nature and environment, from [...]

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Benoît COLOMB

Montier Photo Festival

Artisan photographer, Benoit was born in 1981 in Mende. He lives in Lozère since always. He discovered photography in 2004, but was always attracted by the image since his childhood. Younger, he drew a lot. Today, his digital camera has replaced his pastels and pencils. 

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Dean GILL

Montier Photo Festival

There are photographers who are passionate about birds or butterflies. Dean Gill’s heart beats only for Zeus' excess of anger. Nearly hit by a tornado when we was five years old, Dean Gill now works as a meteorologist at Météo Suisse. He's a photographer always in search of celestial emotions, he has been h [...]

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Annie PATTERSON & Frédéric DEPALLE

Montier Photo Festival

Annie PATTERSON began botanical painting in 2002 after a long career as a designer for a very diverse range of clients. She has always had a fascination for growing and collecting unusual plants, so combined with her drawing and painting skills and a good eye for detail and colour, botanical painting was the perfect combination. Annie's fine art botanical paintings are watercolours on vellum and o [...]

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Olivier BORN

Montier Photo Festival

Born in 1972 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Olivier Born made his debut at the photography school in Vevey before working as an independent, then 10 years in the editorial staff of a weekly. Over the years, he realized numerous reports on biologists active in the protection of endangered species. In recent years, he has devoted all his fre [...]

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Tanguy CRESSOT

Montier Photo Festival

My name is Tanguy and I'm 26 years old. From a very young age, I roam the Haute-Marne to meet the animals that live there. What I like most of all, is the photo in the forest, and like any lover of large wooded areas, the deer is one of my favorite animals. I will not miss, for anything in the world, the era of the rut! 

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ESCOURBIAC

Montier Photo Festival

ESCOURBIAC The Printer accompanies you in the design, production sale and promote of your book, from 100 copies. With 15 years' experience of self-publishing, we are the specialist at your disposal, therewith this experience of editing a book is a success. We will advise you for its financing, its aesthetic aspect, the choice of paper [...]

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Romain DUFAU

Montier Photo Festival

People often ask me where this passion for nature comes from. That’s a difficult question to answer, but I would say it’s always been with me. The photography came naturally afterwards. In a world where speed takes precedence over reflection and emotions, wildlife photography slowly brings us back to the basics. You have to know how to take the time, slow down, look at the world around you. Wa [...]

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Philippe LEGER

Montier Photo Festival

Born in 1962 in Limoges (Haute-Vienne), I grow up in the countryside and spend a lot of time discovering Nature. I started photography at the age of sixteen by black and white photos with a fully manual reflex camera and discovered the work in silver lab. My professional career guides my steps in the Orléans area, where I have been l [...]

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Maurice BELVOIX

Montier Photo Festival

Boilermaker for 30 years in the coal mines of Moselle, I worked the iron, assembled and welded several tons of components. Engaged in different associations of protection of the environment, I put my professional skills at the service of the animal art, especially in the field of ornithology; that's how my modest artistic trip began [...]

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Yohann BERRY

Montier Photo Festival

Born in 1989 in Troyes, in the Aube department, I grew up surrounded by a wonderful nature. However, I discovered photography only in 2017. The discovery of this new passion was a  revelation. I found through photography the way to express that I had been looking for for many years. In favour of local photography, I like to highlight my region through my images. We don’t imagine the nature weal [...]

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Gilles MARTIN

Montier Photo Festival

Gilles Martin spent the first years of his life on the riverside of the Loire in Touraine, where his parents lived and where his father painted watercolours on the river. This is how he learned to discover nature, then to photograph it. Photographer-reporter for thirty years, he is specialized in wildlife and scientific photography. Today, Gilles Martin reinvents his approach to photography to tal [...]

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Bertrand BASCOULES

Montier Photo Festival

Bertrand BASCOULES – amateur naturalist photographer – Passionate hiker, with curiosity unchanged since my youngest age. Photography has become a reflection of this curiosity that has always animated me. It became a guide, which I consider as an organism, seeking in the material technical answers to my aesthetic expectations. I ca [...]

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Rémi MASSON

Montier Photo Festival

Coming from Annecy (Haute-Savoie), Rémi MASSON has been exploring tirelessly the depths of the fresh water systems in the Rhône-Alpes region for twenty years to solve its mysteries. Its first encounter with the bullhead went back more than 15 years, in 2004, in a lake in the south of France. But it is from 2008 that he is going to t [...]

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Antonin CHARBOUILLOT

Montier Photo Festival

Born in Bourgogne in 1993. For several years, my work has been focused on capturing inspiring stories and promoting nature preservation through my pictures and stories. I am a photographer and explorer of the far North. Passionate about the open spaces and the last wild borders, I have a deep connection to the North and I frequently go to Alaska, Scandinavia and in Canada. I am the author of the b [...]

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