St. Gallen wins the Photo Münsingen Award 2025
The Photo Münsingen Award 2025 goes to the photography club of the Migros St. Gallen Club School. The panel "Living Passion in Tango" received the highest score from the three-member jury.
38 photo clubs from Switzerland and neighboring countries took part in the «Photo Club Competition» and were asked to photographically capture the theme of «passion».
Dance was strongly represented
The jury, consisting of Susanna Brändli, Sandra Gygax-Zehnder, and Raymond Zurschmitten, evaluated the submitted works. The tableaux were judged on their relevance to the given theme, their composition, and their technique.
"It quickly became clear that all tableaux were submitted with consistently good quality and that the theme of dance was strongly represented," the three jurors summarize.
Elegant composition of dance and passion
The winning tableau, "Living Passion in Tango," by the photography club of the Migros Club School in St. Gallen, showcases an elegant composition of dance and passion. The photographs are technically perfect. The color scheme, as well as the devotion, eroticism, and sensuality, impressed us. The images are stylish and have a rigorous visual statement, which we consider appropriate for tango dancing, the jury writes in the exhibition catalog.
Second place goes to EFFVAS Bern with the panel "Pipe Smoking," followed by Fotoklub Sense with "Boy's Dream." Fourth to sixth place goes to Fotoclub Blende 8, Bern ("A Touch of Andalusia"), the CAPM Club d'Activités Photo de Meyrin ("Tango"), and the Photo Club Gland ("Tango Passion").
All panels will be on display at Photo Münsingen in the Schlossgutsaal (castle estate hall). Visitors can also judge the photography clubs' work and win attractive prizes there. Six winners will be randomly selected from all submitted tickets. The grand prize will be a Nikon camera and vouchers from Foto Video Zumstein.
The theme of the «Photo Club Competition 2026»
It is already known and is: “Colours of Life”.
The theme of “passion” was almost too much of a good thing with “dance”, so I found the portrayal with “horse and lady in a white dress” more authentic, especially because ANIMALS are not as easy to perform as humans.