Jb Liautard's photo "The Dune" wins the 10th edition of CVCEPHOTO

The second prize goes to Yhabril Moro's "White Fang" and the third prize goes to Jb Liautard's "Fuego."

Jb Liautard has won the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia poster award for his photo titled "Fuego", in addition to the third prize.

The award for the best photography in Euskal Herria (Basque Country) goes to “White Fang” by Yhabril Moro, coinciding with the second prize of the contest.

Tenth edition of CVCEPHOTO

The Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea of San Sebastian celebrates a decade yearly holding the International Mountain Photography Competition CVCEPHOTO. This year, as in previous editions, has brought together the best photographers in the field, professionals and amateurs alike, from all over the world.

Among the more than a thousand photographs presented to the competition, the jury has selected 20 award-winning photographs, with authors from France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, China and Canada, among the more than 50 countries represented in this edition.

The winning photos

The jury of the contest has awarded the first prize and 1400 €  to the photo titled "The Dune" by French photographer Jb Liautard, a spectacular aerial photograph of a cyclist at the highest dunes in Peru. "The wind simply shaped that giant dune with a perfect pattern, the same pattern we can see on a much smaller scale", the author recalls.

The Spanish photographer Yhabril Moro, also awarded in previous editions of CVCEPHOTO, has won the second prize and 700 € with the photo titled "White Fang", in which he captures a slackliner or tightrope walker in a special, almost eerie atmosphere.

Jb Liautard has also won the third prize and 300 € for his photo "Fuego" on the Volcano of Fire in Guatemala, capturing the silhouette of a cyclist in front of a volcanic eruption right behind him.

The rest of the 17 photographs have been awarded Honorable Mentions, in which, in addition to skiing or climbing, other mountain activities such as hiking, boulder or paragliding have been captured.

The gallery with all the award-winning photos both this year and in previous editions can be viewed online at www.cvcephoto.com

BBK Mendifilm Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster Prize

As every year, CVCEPHOTO awards among its participants the photograph will serve as the main poster of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia festival, included in the calendar of the International Alliance for Mountain Cinema (IAMF):

This year, the winner of the BBK Mendifilm Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster Prize and 700 € goes to Jb Liautard, who, thanks to his spectacular photo "Fuego", has had the honour of being the image of the Bilbao Mountain Festival. In addition to this award, Liautard has also won the first and third prizes in this edition of CVCEPHOTO.

Partnership agreement with EITB Media

EiTB sponsors the EITB AWARD TO THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY IN EUSKAL HERRIA, awarded to the best photography obtained in the Basque Autonomous Community, the Foral Community of Navarre and the French Basque Country, and which is selected by the jury of the CVCEPHOTO contest.

CVCEPHOTO and EITB Media have established a sponsorship contract whereby the sponsoring entity will display the finalist photos in the Eguraldia/El Tiempo section of ETB and in the portal www.eitb.eus/eguraldia, before 19 October, when the award ceremony will take place.

This year, the winner of the EITB Award and €700 goes to Yhabril Moro for his photography “White Fang”, also second prize in this edition of CVCEPHOTO.

Exhibition on Boulevard and ceremony at the Aquarium

The 20 award-winning photographs will be displayed in large format in the gardens of the Boulevard on October, before the CVCEPHOTO 2024 awards ceremony. The event will take place at the Aquarium of San Sebastian on Saturday, October 19^th at 6:00 p.m. The winners will participate in the event and, in addition to the award-winning photographs and finalists, we will be able to enjoy the screening of a film.

The indoors exhibition with high-quality prints will be hosted at the headquarters of the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, located at 35^th Prim Street, from Friday, September 13^th until the end of November.

Workshop "TOPO photo encounters"

Prior to the award ceremony, a new edition of the workshop "TOPO Photo encounters" will be held in the morning at the headquarters of the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea. There, award-winning photographers will talk about their work. The entrance will be free upon registration. This workshop is sponsored by Eusko Trenbide Sarea in collaboration with CVCE club.

The photograph “Tough Enough” by photographer Jan Novak has been awarded the TOPO Grand Prize at the twelfth edition of the CVCEPHOTO competition.

Taken in Tsaranoro (Madagascar), the photograph features climber Nico Favresse attempting to ascend one of the most demanding routes on the spectacular Karombony wall. The image captures the moment he tackles the pitch known as “Gecko” (8b+), during an intense and committed ten-day expedition alongside Melissa Le Nevé. The visual power of the scene, combined with the immense scale of the surroundings, conveys the physical and mental demands of this type of big-wall climbing challenge.

SPECIAL AWARDS

• The “BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia Poster” Special Award has been presented to Lei Bao for “Quantum Cave Chronicles”, taken in Nongxiang Tiankeng (Guangxi, China). The photograph captures beams of sunlight penetrating the depths of this colossal karst landscape, creating an almost sacred atmosphere.

• The EITB Award has gone to Kevin Young for his photograph “Saliendo del hoyo”, a scene of underground exploration in which a caver ascends towards the surface after a day spent connecting different mining levels in Galdames, Bizkaia. The carefully designed lighting and technical planning enhance the sense of depth and emptiness.

• The Euskal Mendizale Federazioa Award has been presented to Chechu Arribas for “Rider of Storm”, an image portraying the harsh conditions of a mountain ridge exposed to extreme cold, fog and wind, where the protagonist appears to be literally “riding” through the storm.

• The Special Jury Award has gone to Yhabril Moro for “White Dance”, a delicate composition in which a descent down a snow-covered waterfall in the Pyrenees becomes a visual choreography combining nature, action and patience.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

In addition to the main awards, the jury has granted 15 Honourable Mentions to photographs by photographers from different parts of the world.

Patricia Valero (“Awesome”), Chechu Arribas (“The next summit”), Kevin Young (“Espeleo o Barranco”), Jordi Rulló (“Mt Shiribetsu”), Yhabril Moro (“La Sala”), JB Liautard (“Las Ánimas”), Susana Siscart (“Pedriza al Alba”), Aritz Gordo (“Iluminando el camino”), Yhabril Moro (“Gates of Steel”), Aritz Gordo (“Donde empieza el horizonte”), Mikel Iraeta (“Donde empieza el horizonte”), Julia Roger-Veyer (“Coeur”), Anthony Chenot (“Cosmique”), Iñaki Larrea (“Admirando el vacío”) and Javier Urbón (“Guadarrama blanco”), among others.

The awards ceremony will take place on 24 October at the Aquarium in San Sebastián, as part of a public exhibition featuring the award-winning photographs and a selection of outstanding works from the competition.

"Grietas" by Carlos de Cos wins the 9th edition of CVCEPHOTO

The second prize went to Krystle Wright's “Seventh Serpent”, and the third to Simon Carter's “Don't wet yourself”.

The BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia poster award went to Yhabril Moro for his photography “X-Man”, and the FIFAD poster award went to Andreas Busslinger's “Black Ice”.

The ninth edition of CVCEPHOTO

The Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea mountain club from San Sebastian organizes for the ninth consecutive year its CVCEPHOTO international mountain activity photography contest, which has brought together, as in previous editions, the best professional and amateur photographers in the field from around the world.

The jury has chosen the 20 winners among the thousand photographs submitted to the contest by authors coming from more than 50 countries. Among the winners are authors from Australia, Switzerland, Argentina, Poland, Italy, Spain, USA, Slovenia and Germany.

The awarded photographs

The contest jury has awarded the first prize and €1,400 to the Spanish photographer Carlos de Cos Azkona for his photograph “Cracks”, a spectacular aerial photograph of a cyclist over the arid terrain of the Yesa reservoir in Spain. The image was captured in September of last year, when the reservoir’s water level was at a critical low of 15% due to the drought that hit Europe and the Iberian peninsula last year.

Australian photographer Krystle Wright, also awarded in previous editions of CVCEPHOTO, has won the second prize and €700 with her photograph “Seventh Serpent”, capturing a climber climbing the route of the same name in the Long Canyon in southeastern Utah, USA.

Australian photographer Simon Carter, also awarded in several previous editions of CVCEPHOTO, has won the third prize and €300 for his photograph “Don't wet yourself”, taken in front of the Katoomba waterfalls in the Australian Blue Mountains, while climbing the route that gives name to the photo.

The remaining seventeen photographs have been awarded with Honorable Mentions and in them, in addition to skiing or climbing, other activities that take place in the mountains are represented, such as hiking, bouldering or paragliding.

BBK Mendifilm Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster Award

As every year, CVCEPHOTO has awarded among the submissions those photos that, thanks to their collaboration agreements, will serve as the main poster in two mountain film festivals included in the calendar of the International Alliance for Mountain Film (IAMF):

The winner of the BBK Mendifilm Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster Award has been the Spanish Yhabril Moro for his photograph “X-Man” of a runner under the Sorrosal Waterfall in Ordesa (Spain). In addition to this award, Yhabril has also won an Honorable Mention in this edition of CVCEPHOTO for his photograph “The Phantom”, which shows a free-rider skier descending at full speed from Pico Malacara after the first snowfall. from last season.

Likewise, the Swiss Andreas Busslinger has won the FIFAD Poster Award (the Les Diablerets film festival, in Switzerland) and €700 for his photograph “Black Ice”, in which three paragliders glide over the frozen waters of Lake Sihl in Switzerland.

The gallery with all the winning photographs both in this and previous editions can be seen online by visiting www.cvcephoto.com

Collaboration agreement with EITB Media

CVCEPHOTO and the Basque news group EITB Media have established a sponsorship contract through which the sponsoring entity will show the finalist photographs in the Weather Forecast news program section of ETB and at www.eitb.eus/eguraldia, between October 16^th and 20^th.

In addition, the audience of eitb.eus will choose the best photo among those published, which will receive the PUBLIC’s PRIZE awarded by EITB during the awards ceremony on October 21^st.

Exhibition on the Boulevard and ceremony at San Sebastian’s Aquarium

The twenty winning photographs will be exhibited in large format in the gardens of San Sebastian’s Boulevard starting on October 20, preceding the CVCEPHOTO 2023 awards ceremony, which will be held for the first time at the San Sebastian Aquarium on Saturday 21^st of October, at 6:00 p.m. This event will include the participation of the winners and, in addition to the winning photos and the finalists, attendees will be able to enjoy the screening of a documentary film related to photography.

The room exhibition, in high-quality prints, will be hosted at the headquarters of the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea in San Sebastian from September 15^th to November 24^th, date after which the exposition will begin its tour. The outdoors exhibition of the Boulevard will remain installed until November 13^th.

"TOPO photographic meetings" workshop

Prior to the awards ceremony, in the morning, a new edition of the “TOPO Photographic meetings” workshop will be held at the headquarters of the Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, in which the visiting award-winning photographers will talk about their work. Admission will be free, prior registration in the CVCE office. This workshop is sponsored by Eusko Trenbide Sareak, an entity that has collaborated and sponsored CVCEPHOTO since 2018.