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Photo Münsingen 2025: Passion in Photography

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Experience how photographers implement this theme at Photo Münsingen 2025. You will be amazed at how much stamina it takes to implement a photographic project. You have to push your body to its limits, brave the storms, go to places that are hard to reach and use the latest technology.

Valentin Felder – An Unwound Clockwork

«An Unwound Clockwork» is the English title for «The Gearbox in the Sand» and is a 30-minute stop motionanimated film in Steampunkaesthetic, using modern features with Victorian-era materials, creating a retro look. The project was started in 2013 by Valentin Felder and a friend while they were at school. It has evolved part-time over the years and has been continuously documented with behind-the-scenes pictures and videos to keep the project's supporters up to date.

Kostas Maros – HID­DEN

You will come across the shoe cabinets in the opera house's costume department everywhere at Photo Münsingen 2025; they adorn leaflets and posters. What is behind them? They are part of the project «HIDDEN» by the Basel photographer Kostas Maros and the art historian Catherine Iselin. Over the course of two years, the two of them visited 25 places in Switzerland that are inaccessible to us or remain hidden. These places are fascinating and arouse curiosity. With a professional camera, wide-angle lens and great depth of field, Kostas Maros manages to breathe life into the hidden places.

Daniel Brändli – Pas­sio­na­te Denisa

The photo exhibition «Passionate Denisa» is a tribute to the model Denisa Strakova. Daniel Brändli describes her as the most passionate in terms of her professionalism.

Thomas Wunsch – CODE OF HONOR

Thomas Wunsch began working in the field of photography at the age of 17 when he moved to the USA and became a member of the Kodak Young Photographers League. He specialized in portrait, fashion and abstract photography and had numerous celebrities in front of his lens. His works have been exhibited worldwide and published as LP and CD covers. His photo exhibition «CODE OF HO­NOR» belongs to informal-abstract photography.

The work of the photo clubs

The central component of Photo Münsingen is the «Photo Club Competition». 38 photo club teams from Switzerland and neighboring countries are competing to win the «Photo Münsingen Award 2025» with their competition entry.

Further photo exhibitions

Photo Arena

In our unique, circular screen arena, ten works on a free topic are shown every two minutes.

 Deep Water Rush: Fascination Underwater World

In this multimedia show with live commentary, Ra­pha­el Stu­der the secrets of the oceans. From microscopic creatures to various shark species and giant whales.

Dive in and let yourself be enchanted by the thrill of the depths.

Photo Book Contest

Have you created a unique photo book? Whether it is a travel photo book, impressions from a city, a portrait of a fellow human being or beautiful landscape pictures. Everything is possible. The Photo Book Contest in cooperation with our main sponsor bookfactory runs until April 6, 2025.

U25 Photo Challenge

The youth competition «U25 Photo Challenge» starts on March 1, 2025. Teenagers and young adults born in 2000 and later can participate until March 31, 2025.

 Lectures

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Photo Münsingen also belong to this year audiovisual productions and Photo workshops. Take a look at our program now and mark the Ascension Days from May 29th to June 1st, 2025 in your agenda. We look forward to your visit.

The winners of the photo book competition and the U25 Photo Challenge

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“Into the great wide open” is the name of the most beautiful photo book in Switzerland. It was done as part of the photo book competition chosen by Bookfactory and Photo Münsingen and comes from Matthias Notter. The price of the U25 Photo Challenge 2024 goes to Micha Bigler.

For the second time, Photo Münsingen, together with the main sponsor Bookfactory, looked for the best, most original or most unusual photo books in Switzerland. After a pre-selection, the jury – consisting of Brigitte Aeberhard-Baur, Sonja Berger and Beat Feller – evaluated the ten best creations.

Matthias Notter won first prize with his photo book “Into the great wide open”. The jury was impressed by its content concept, impressive implementation and very good images. Thanks to originally used AI and good texts with a quiet sense of humor, a travel report becomes a photo book that you not only enjoy looking at, but also read.

Second and third places go to Nadia Knechtle with the book “Stadtmomente” and Manuel C. Studer with “Rayim-Bek”.

The U25 Photo Challenge also went into the second round. Once again, photographers aged 25 or younger were able to demonstrate their passion for photography. This year the theme is “Music”.

Micha Bigler, Amira Kopp and Lukas Affolter are on the podium here. The 28 submitted images were judged by Jan Schmidt, Florian Biedermann and Yves Leneveu. They evaluated image design, quality, creativity and the connection to the topic of “music”.

The most beautiful photo books and the pictures from the U25 Photo Challenge are on display at Photo Münsingen until Sunday, May 12th.

Photo Book Competition and U25 Photo Challenge: Join now!

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The Pho­to Mün­sin­gen is launching two new competitions for this year's edition: together with Bookfactory, we are looking for the best photo books in Switzerland. Together with BERN-OST let's start the «U25 Pho­to Chall­enge». Now it's time to participate and win!

The “U25 Photo Challenge” is aimed at teenagers and young adults born in 1998 or later. The theme of the competition is «Water». What is needed are photos in which water plays a role. Whether landscape shots, studio shots or abstract images - creativity, imagination and good implementation are the focus. It doesn't matter whether the picture is taken with a smartphone or a digital camera, or developed in analogue form and then scanned.

Participation is uncomplicated and takes place via BERN-OST via the following link:

To the “U25 Photo Challenge”…

The submission deadline is March 31, 2023. After that, the submitted images will be judged and exhibited at Photo Münsingen.

You can win vouchers from the Ni­kon Foto School worth CHF 750 for first place, CHF 500 for second place and CHF 250 for fourth place. The third place winner wins 300 francs in cash, sponsored by BERN-OST. The fifth prize is a voucher from Bookfactory worth 200 francs.

The most beautiful photo book in Switzerland

In a second competition, we are dedicating ourselves to the photo book category. Together with the main sponsor Bookfactory, the best, most original or most unusual photo books in Switzerland are sought.

You have until April 23, 2023 to submit your most beautiful Bookfactory photo book using the link below. Convince the jury with your snapshots, the best shots or artfully arranged pictures. Be creative and try something new!

The content, design and overall impression of the photo book are evaluated. The topic is freely selectable. The main prize is a new Fuji camera X‑T5 with lens! The best books are also presented at the Pho­to Mün­sin­gen be visible.

To the photo book competition…

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