/ 2025 / Analog / Fine Art

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Antoine Leven, France
• Date of Photograph
  June 2025
• Website
  https://antoineleven.myportfolio.com
• Instagram
  @antoineleven

This image was taken while researching/initiating a project on the Causse d'Aumelas, using a recurring process in my work that can be found in my series "Carving the night out", which consists of suggesting shapes and playing on strong contrasts as well as marked disproportions between black and white. While it didn't feet the project I was researching on, it opened another path, where I played with different presets building a series based on this single image.

After 35 years as an amateur, I've decided to join the professional photography world. After a long spell doing mostly travel photography, for the past 6 years I focused on analog-based landscape photography. This practice was an introspective quest aimed at reconnecting with myself and exploring my emotions. I am currently completing a creative documentary course with Spéos Photography School and Magnum Photos in Paris. My main interest is to document climate change and the energy transition. I will pursue landscape as a purely creative endeavour.

Awards - International Photography Award, Los Angeles, USA. Honorable Mentions in the categories of film/architecture and film/fine art (August 2025)
- 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).