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Four passionate photo days

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More than 3000 photography enthusiasts visited Photo Münsingen 2025 over the Ascension Day holidays. Passion wasn't just the theme of many of the photo exhibitions. "The photographers also demonstrated that they do their work with great passion," said organizing committee president Urs Hintermann.

The highlights

This year's theme—passion—offered space for a variety of photo exhibitions. Among the most impressive images are certainly the human sculptures of Louis Blanc's «cORpuS», Hansruedi Ramsauer's «Surreal worlds» and Kostas Maros' «HIDDEN – Hidden Places in Switzerland».

The competitions

«Passion» was also the theme of the «U25 Photo Challenge", the competition for young people, which was won this year by Janis Fasel with an impressive surfer photo. The "Photo Club Competition». The first prize went to the photography club of the Migros St. Gallen Club School with their work "Living Passion in Tango." Finally, in the third competition – «The most beautiful photo book in SwitzerlandManuel C. Studer won the "Fishing Championship" award, which Photo Münsingen organizes annually in collaboration with Bookfactory. His book "The Fisherman's Championship" is dedicated to Lake Constance fishermen and impressed with its impressive black-and-white images.

The multimedia show on Friday evening

The photographer demonstrated passion for the underwater world Raphael Studer with his multimedia lecture “Deep Thrill: Fascinating Underwater World”, which impressed with fascinating images of everything from the smallest microorganisms to giant whales.

Thanks to the helpers and sponsors

The organizing committee thanks the more than 100 volunteers, all exhibitors, speakers, and generous sponsors, including in particular the main sponsors Bookfactory, Nikon and Photo Vision Zumstein.

The 25th edition of Photo Münsingen

The next Photo Münsingen will take place from 14 to 17 May 2026. It will be something very special, as we will be celebrating the 25th edition of Photo Münsingen, the popular photo event.

The photos and the press review

To the photo gallery of Photo Münsingen 2025…

To the press review of print media…

To the press review of online services…

St. Gallen wins the Photo Münsingen Award 2025

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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”.

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Photo Münsingen Award 2017 – judging

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"A place to stay" is the theme of the big photo club competition for the coveted "Photo Münsingen Award 2017".
The photo clubs were able to give free rein to their creativity in the topic and the corresponding implementation. In a team work, the so-called tableau, up to five photographers present a maximum of 5 pictures (i.e. 1 picture / photographer).

On April 22, 2017, all tableaus of the 57 participating photo clubs judged by an expert jury. The jurors team with Alice Lautenschlager, Christian Koradi and Anton Riedo took a lot of time to evaluate the works according to the criteria of topic / effect, composition and technique and to formulate a small comment per tableau.

The jury mentioned the pleasingly wide range of topics and the high technical quality of the images. Challenging was the assessment of those tableaux in which individual images fell somewhat short in relation to the overall quality of the entire work. The photo clubs will receive a more detailed jury comment and individual information at the vernissage on May 24, 2017. The winner of the Photo Münsingen Award 2017 and the results of the other photo clubs will also be announced.

Rudolf Mäusli, Head of Exhibitions

Photo club competition Photo Münsingen Award 2018

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"MOVE" is the theme of the photo club competition for next year's Photo Münsingen in 2018.
“MOVE” means, among other things, moving, moving, moving, running, transporting, driving, touching, giving way, but also taking steps, actions, gambles and much more.
The photo clubs will receive detailed information about the 2018 competition and the registration process at the end of May 2017. Interested photo clubs who have not received any documents by then can contact Rudolf Mäusli, President of the OK Photo Münsingen .

 

Photo club competition Photo Münsingen Award 2017

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«A place to stay», in English «A place to linger» is the theme of the photo club competition Photo Münsingen Award 2017, which will take place next year.

"A place to stay" can be a place to live and work or a place that we like to visit for culture and leisure, be it outdoors in nature, in squares, in gardens and promenades or in shops and restaurants.

The photo clubs have already received detailed information on the 2017 photo club competition and the registration process. Interested photo clubs that have not received any documents can contact Rudolf Mäusli, President of the OK Photo Münsingen .

A very special cake

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Many assistants work in the background for the “Photo Café” and make fine cakes and pastries. He has a very special cake Solothurn Photo Club made available. Thank you very much!

 

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