/ 2025 / Analog / Fine Art

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Antoine Leven, France
• Website
  https://antoineleven.myportfolio.com
• Instagram
  @antoineleven

The Antifer harbor, is an oil terminal for supertankers whose construction began following the closure of the Suez Canal during the Six-Day War and was completed eight years later when the canal was reopened. The blurred aspect of the image is caused both by the falling rain and the grain roughness of the Minox lens. It gives the image an unsettling, out-of-time, ambiguous feeling.

Through my photography practice, I seek to capture the environment or the moment that moves me, by their ephemeral beauty and their impermanence. Although totally urban, after many years of practicing photography during travels and urban strolls, I turned to landscape photography, first coastal and then mountain. This change was accompanied by a return to film photography in full and medium format, both in color and black and white. As I move towards documentary photography, I maintain a more poetic than didactic approach, while trying to instill a more accomplished narrative style.

Awards -- Independent Image & Art Space, Chongqing, China. Two images of “La Grande Casse” series selected for a 1-month exhibition on the theme of “Natural Wonders”(March 2025).
-- Athens 3rd B&W festival, Athens, Greece. One image selected in the analog category (February 2025).
-- Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA. One image selected from the “Sky Diaries (V) - Puy de Sancy” series for an exhibition on the theme “The Square” (January 2025).
-- The Nat Photo Society "Architecture" competition, Los Angeles, USA. 1 Honorable Mention Award and 2 Finalist Awards, (February 2025).
-- The Nat Photo Society "Reflection" competition, Los Angeles, USA. 1 Honorable Mention Award (January 2025).
-- The Motif Collective "Minimalism" competition, USA. 1 image in the theme shortlist (December 2024).