Montier Photo Festival

Christophe CIESLAR

Montier Photo Festival

Self-taught, I started photography in 2014. Very quickly, I became passionate about night photography. As having very close to home, a playground without too much light pollution, I 'm going around the Pyrenees at night, for the greatest pleasure to make you discover it. [...]

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Corinne BOUL

Montier Photo Festival

Passionnée par la nature et la photographie depuis mon plus jeune âge, j’ai grandi au milieu d’une magnifique campagne mosellane. J’ai longtemps pratiqué la photo de façon «occasionnelle», pour me consacrer à ma carrière professionnelle. Rattrapée par ma passion, je la pratique maintenant activement. Mon domaine de prédilection est la macrophotographie. Je parcours les prairies [...]

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Eric EGEA

Montier Photo Festival

Self-taught photographer, I have been pursuing my passion for many years. It was in 2005 that I opted for digital and that's when I started photographing with lenses specific to macro photography. I discovered a fantastic, almost unreal world, at ground level. I work with different focal lengths, from 50mm to 300mm and exclusively in natural light. Suggesting rather than showing, one could summ [...]

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Fanny ZAMBAZ

Montier Photo Festival

Fanny ZAMBAZ is a professional Swiss artist-photographer, based in the Valais Alps. She has been exploring the technique of cyanotype since 2017 and won the 2023 Prix Objectif Femme in Paris. His digital and silver work – always presented in cyanotype – was the subject of numerous private and collective exhibitions as well as conferences (Switzerland and France) on both very large format cham [...]

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Elisabeth GAILLARD

Montier Photo Festival

Native of Reims, I have always felt in harmony with nature; I love to walk on the calcareous lawns where flowers and butterflies bloom, in peatlands or on the edge of small ponds when dragonflies sparkle with dew. Passionate about botany and especially orchids, I used photography as a tool for identification, then the image imposed itself on me as an essential concern and eclipsed my first natura [...]

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Elise PIRE

Montier Photo Festival

Je suis aquarelliste mais également maman, bio ingénieure et naturaliste. C’est l’amour des belles I'm a watercolourist, but I'm also a mum, a bioengineer and a naturalist. It's the love of beautiful images that drives me to share my passion for the beauty of nature with you. I've always had binoculars around my neck, and a pencil and paper to hand, and for the last few years I've been [...]

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Dany GODINEAU

Montier Photo Festival

Self-taught photographer, member of the A C P C and MER'VEILLES NATURE, I have been living in the East of Touraine for several years now. With this exhibition, I want to share my privileged moments with the local fauna. It is very close to my home (carbon footprint), in my affûts equipped with two-way lenses (for discretion), that I observe and photograph the local fauna in a long-standing fall [...]

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Gil GAUTIER

Montier Photo Festival

A professional photographer with a passion for my work and for nature, I roam the paths of the Franche-Comté region in search of natural inspiration. As a wildlife and landscape photographer, I like to call myself a photographer by nature. Above all, I seek to highlight the beauty of living things. My photographic approach is above all to sublimate the moment in an artistic way as a tribute to th [...]

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Hugo PICHOL

Montier Photo Festival

Aquatic biologist and underwater photographer, Hugo PICHOL is passionate about aquatic environments. His first playgrounds are the torrents and mountain lakes of Savoie, his native region. Later, his passion drives him to explore and study various aquatic environments across France. Witness to their beauty but also the pressures and degradation threatening them, he decides to take his camera under [...]

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Eddy & François REMY

Montier Photo Festival

Father and son who have been roaming the fields, wastelands, meadows, garigue and maquis, looking for insects for fifteen years. Our preferences go to butterflies and dragonflies but all other insects attract us as well. Living in Belgium, the insects not present in our home that we find in the south of France, where we regularly spend our holidays, attract us particularly. Eddy is retired and [...]

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Julien et Clément PAPPALARDO

Montier Photo Festival

We are two brothers, two solitaries together, Julien and Clément PAPPALARDO, some even like to call us "The brothers of the woods". Nature, the riches it reveals, has always fascinated us. Since our youngest age, she has been able t o amaze us and develop our imagination. Grandsons and sons of fishermen on one side, handyman on the other, these associated legacies made us discover the wild at fi [...]

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Michel ANDRIEUX

Montier Photo Festival

Having been passionate about wild animal life all my life, but unable to devote myself to it because of my very important commitment as a sports coach, I decided shortly after my retirement to turn to another activity, photography, in order to record the beauty of animal life. Another objective is also close to my heart, to show what we are losing if we continue to treat the planet and living bein [...]

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Alexandre DESCHAUMES

Montier Photo Festival

I am Alexandre DESCHAUMES, a self-taught photographer from Haute-Savoie, 42 years old, and a professional for 15 years. Passionate about ethereal atmospheres and wild nature, I strive to capture landscapes filled with mystery and poetry, inviting exploration of unknown worlds. [...]

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Adrien COQUELLE

Montier Photo Festival

After ten years as an art director in Paris, I discovered wildlife photography in 2016, becoming much more than a hobby. It offers me an escape and reconnects me with nature, which is essential to my well-being. In 2018, I left behind my career as a graphic designer to dedicate myself to this new professional activity, steering my life towards the protection of wildlife and nature. I now share my [...]

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Luca MELCARNE

Montier Photo Festival

Luca MELCARNE was born in 1998 in Gervanne, a small bucolic valley at the foot of the Vercors. As a child, he grew up in contact with this nature and never ceased to go through ridges and valleys. After an encounter with a large deer, the frustration of not being able to bring evidence back to his parents eats away at him. At 12, he borrowed his father’s camera and began photography. After his s [...]

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Jean-Claude PICARD

Montier Photo Festival

The Loire, beautiful and wild, is the area of Jean-Caude PICARD. Beyond the naturalistic approach, his photos reveal a permanent graphic research, to capture the poetry of an attitude or a singular light. He loves the morning moods and the long summer evenings, when the river, with the shimmering colors and the fauna, become complicit. A harmony reveals to the photographer all the splendor of the [...]

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Laurent LOUIS

Montier Photo Festival

It was a bit by chance that my love affair with photography was born. At the beginning of a visitor to the Natur'Images Festival, I decided to get involved in the association in 2017 and met photographers and here I am embarking on a beautiful adventure where passion and thirst for learning are mixed! Combining artistic and educational projects, my photos aim to raise awareness of the biodiversi [...]

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Gilles DUPERRON

Montier Photo Festival

When I was younger, I drove through France to photograph storms, which took a lot of my time and especially a lot of energy; something that today seems more difficult to me because of my professional and family life. However, this pleasure that I felt with each impact, facing the elements, I also found it by photographing nature. Then, macrophotography presented itself to me quite naturally, sinc [...]

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Damien LECOUVEY, Matthieu BERRONEAU, Vincent PREMEL

Montier Photo Festival

As part of our Amazonian expedition “Les Ecailles de la Forêt”, not one, but three photographers are involved. Damien LECOUVEY: Herpetologist, expedition leader and member of the Société des Explorateurs Français. An amateur photographer, he is first and foremost a specialist in venomous snakes, and through, his research seeks, to reduce the cost of manufacturing antivenoms and protect re [...]

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Jean-Pierre BERTRAND

Montier Photo Festival

As an amateur photographer, I've been passionate about nature photography for 16 years. I'm particularly interested in macro photography, with a predilection for flowers, butterflies and springtails. Landscapes, especially at night, also attract me, as does astrophotography. I like to vary the approach in my photos. Close-ups attract me, but I also like to emphasize the atmosphere around the main [...]

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