"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 16th and 20th.
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 21st.
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 21st 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 15th to November 24th, date after which the exposition will begin its tour. The outdoors exhibition of the Boulevard will remain installed until November 13th.
"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.