Benoît FERON is based in Brussels and Castillon-du-Gard. World traveler, he has a passion for the beauty of the Earth and for its people. He is travelling since many years, to witness the fragility of the planet and the high diversity of the people. His work is mainly centered on the human being, with a search for beauty among its diversity, joining the approach of Sebastiao SALGADO: "people are [...]
2024
Benoist CLOUET
A photographer from Nantes – France, Benoist CLOUET has been practicing nature photography for 25 years, particularly in wild territories where humans are rarely present. As a professional photographer for over 10 years, passionate about the cold, ice and wide open spaces, he has been traveling the great Nordic and polar spaces for almost 20 years: Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, Japan (Hokkai [...]
Sandra BARTOCHA, invité d'honneur "étranger"
Sandra Bartocha (*1980) from Potsdam and Werner Bollmann (*1966) from Kiel have both worked as professional nature photographers for many years, and have published several books („Nordische Momente – Tiergeschichten aus Tundra und Taiga“, „Müritz Nationalpark – Eine Hommage an eine Landschaft“, „Die Fotoschule in Bildern – Naturfotografie). Their images have been awarded at import [...]
Sylvain JOLIBOIS
Photographer reporter Established for 6 years now in the Basque Country, in Bidart, Sylvain immerses himself in the local culture, geography and his environment, to develop his work as a photographer. [...]
Thomas ROGER
Nature guide, diver, videographer and wildlife photographer, Thomas ROGER has been documenting deep sea fauna, for over 20 years. In 2013, he published the reference book: “Pelagos”, which won the world prize for underwater photography. Then, in 2023, after 3 years freediving in order to film the giants of the “grande bleue” (the Mediterranean Sea), he made and produced the film “Pelagos [...]
Jean-François MARLIER
Bonjour ! Originaire des petites Fagnes en Belgique, je suis un passionné de nature, depuis mon plus jeune âge. J'ai une affinité particulière pour les ambiances de l'aube et du crépuscule. Kiné de profession, la nature est pour moi un lieu ressource. Habitant en Alsace, je photographie la nature sauvage, en plaine et en montagne, (Vosges principalement). Je passe beaucoup de temps à observ [...]
Rémi MASSON - Compère du Festival
Rémi Masson Diving Photographer A native of Annecy in Haute-Savoie, Rémi MASSON has been exploring the fresh waters of the Rhône-Alpes region for over 20 years, unraveling their mysteries and revealing their hidden beauty through images. His first encounter with a beaver was some twenty years ago, in a backwater of the Rhône. Since then, he has spent over 200 dives in the company of Europe's [...]
Giandra DE CASTRO
Giandra DE CASTRO is a Franco-Brazilian art photographer specializing in nature photography with renderings that alternate between impressionist, surrealist, or abstract styles, always poetic. Her unaltered photography liberates the dreamlike part trapped in reality by playing with angles, scale changes, interactions between vertical and horizontal, plane confusions, and perspective inversions. Th [...]
Fabien et Sophie PEKUS
Fabien and Sophie PEKUS are a couple of veterinarian photographers, passionate about wildlife and travel. After working for more than 20 years as practicing veterinarians, they decided to make their dream come true and set off on a world tour to discover rare and little-known wild animals. Africa will be the first opus of this odyssey: the “Wildlife Overland” project is born! Aboard their co [...]
Florian LEDOUX
Known for his intimate and aesthetic compositions, Florian's distinctive imagery stems from his passion for the Arctic. “My biggest inspiration, for creating, has always been nature, to be able to bring it to the centre of our lives and give those who cannot speak a voice”. To him, nature is the greatest artist. His work celebrates the beauty of frozen continents and their wildlife, emphasizin [...]
Alexis ROSENFELD, parrain photo
Alexis ROSENFELD, plongeur professionnel, photographe et explorateur. Après avoir découvert la plongée, à l’âge de 8 ans, Alexis ROSENFELD décide de vivre de sa passion pour l’Océan. Il devient, alors, plongeur et photographe sous-marin. Son parcours lui permet, de partager la dernière expédition du Commandant COUSTEAU à Madagascar, de prendre part à la grande épopée de la Come [...]
Jean CHEVALLIER
Jean CHEVALLIER is a wildlife painter, professional artist since 1987. He was member of SWLA during a few years. Best times are outside in nature for him, day or night! [...]
Marc COSTERMANS
Depuis tout petit, j’aime m’immerger dans la nature. Dans ma famille, on me surnommait « œil de lynx », car j’étais le premier à apercevoir le chevreuil en lisière du bois ou le faucon crécerelle en plein vol. En 1993, je pars en voyage de noces avec mon épouse, dans les grands parcs américains. Et là, c’est le déclic ! (après celui de mon épouse, bien sûr !). De retour de v [...]
Arnaud GUERIN
Scientist, professional photographer, author and guide of theme tours and travels, Arnaud Guérin has, always had, a passion for the earth and nature. If speech and writing are two ways of expressing this, it is with his photographs that he takes the public into a scientific voyage and captures their attention. From his first journey to Iceland, he was touched with a devouring passion for sea bird [...]
Marc STEICHEN
I grew up in the “Wild West” of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Since I was a child, I have travelled through the forests and streets surrounding my village, to discover nature and its inhabitants. Naturally, I begin to film the wild world around me. For almost two decades, I have devoted most of my free time to nature photography. My photos are regularly shown in individual and collective exhi [...]
Franco LIMOSANI
As a child, he threw himself at his pencils to draw everything that came under his nose: deer, butterflies, lions… As a teenager, he scanned the stars in the sky, which he ended up immortalizing on film by becoming an astrophotographer. It was only much later, around the age of 30, that Franco LIMOSANI discovered a passion for wildlife photography, becoming over time one of the European natura [...]
Image et Rivière présente Yannick GOUGUENHEIM, invité d'honneur "Thème de l'année"
While underwater photography has become increasingly popular over the last few years, freshwater underwater photography is still relatively unknown. Why is this? Quite simply, the constraints are omnipresent. Working in freshwater is a real challenge! My motivation is to be able to convey the pleasure I get from nature, to create a more personal picture with it. In freediving, the change of di [...]
Nicolas DAVY
I am Nicolas DAVY and I have been photographing urban wildlife in Paris for many years. I was born in Paris and it was natural for me to shhoot subjects that were the most accessible to me. Today, after almost 15 years, I no longer feel the desire or the need to venture outside the city to photograph nature. Through my work in urban environments, I primarily aim to reconnect Parisians with their s [...]
Grégory POL
When he was 12, Grégory imagined himself joining Captain COUSTEAU's team aboard the Calypso… His dreams of adventure led him to join the French Navy, in August 1995, where he became a navigator and diver. Passionate about nature and photography, he continued his career as a sailor while becoming an author-photographer. Now a photographer with a passion for nature and adventure, Grégory POL h [...]
Patrick GUERIN
Professional photographer for over 30 years. Before that, I was already a photographer, just a photographer ! It started very early: with an Instamatic or a Polaroid, the fascination was already there. From my first jobs, I spent the majority of my salary to buy a reflex camera, lenses and printing equipment. The tiny bathroom in my apartment turns into a black and white lab, and I start exhibi [...]