Nikon supports the only international festival dedicated to sports photography. Nikon invites professional photographers to participate in the competition and endows the grand prize worth € 8000

  • Photo: DR

Paris, March 30, 2015 - Nikon is proud to announce the renewal of its partnership with Sportfolio, the only festival entirely dedicated to sports photography, to be held in Narbonne from June 4 to 21, 2015.

This festival will be organized around a dozen exhibitions open to the public and free access, meetings, portfolio readings and events.

A week of professional meetings will be held from June 8 to 11, which will give the public the opportunity to meet professional photographers and discover the latest Nikon news related to the practice of action photography.

One of the highlights of the event will be the presentation of the Sportfolio trophies of 2015 during a ceremony which will take place on June 11 at 19:30 p.m. at the Narbonne theater.

These Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies will reward the best sports photographers in four categories: action, reportage, unusual and portrait. A photographer will also be consecrated as the big winner and rewarded with an endowment of Nikon equipment worth € 8000 (Nikon D4s + AF-S 300mm f / 4G PF VR camera).

The Sportfolio competition is open to professional photographers only. To participate, candidates must register and post their images on the site www.festivalsportfolio.fr between March 25 and April 25, 2015. For a long time and still today, Nikon's ambition is to make people vibrate through the image: the Sportfolio festival is a unique opportunity to bring together image and sports enthusiasts to see and capture emotion!

Exhibitions of the Sportfolio Festival:

Cours Mirabeau

  • 1- The Team (Best of 2014-2015, + portraits)
  • 2- Associated Press (Super Bowl)
  • 3- Hors Standards (two subjects on disability by Nicolas Hairon - Vanessa François attacking El Capitan - and Pauce - portraits of disabled athletes)
  • 4- Le Monde (Crossing the Channel by swimming and Street sports)
  • 5- The New York Times (Too young too fast and Their golden years)

Consuls Room

  • 6- AFP (The risks of the profession)

Courtyard

  • 7- New China (Sochi Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, World Gymnastics Championships in Nanjing)

Madeleine Court

  • 8- Homage to Michel Birot, founder of Attitude Rugby magazine (Du jeu et des hommes, exhibition taken from the eponymous book)

Pillar room

  • 9- Jean-Denis Walter (an image, an author, a story)

Wedding Hall

  • 10- Franck Seguin (Freediving with Guillaume Néry)

Esplanade André Malraux

  • 11- DPPI (Vendée-Globe and Dakar) Theater
  • 12- The winners of the 2013 competition

Portfolio readings

With Daphné Anglès (New York Times) and Pierre Fernandez (Auditorium). During the professional week from June 8 to 11, 2015

Conferences

At the Auditorium - current program

Nikon Pro meeting space

Terrace between two cities, demonstration and sale of equipment.

Competition

  • Registration begins March 25
  • Registration closes on April 25
  • Prize-giving ceremony: June 11 at 19:30 p.m. at the Narbonne Theater

Information and registration: www.festivalsportfolio.fr

Jury members:

  • Dimitri Beck (Editor in chief of Polka Magazine)
  • Michel Puech (Journalist L'Oeil de la Photographie)
  • Benoît Rivero (Photo Director of Éditions Actes-Sud)
  • Isabelle Picarel (Official photographer of the FFR)
  • Daphne Anglès (New York Times)
  • Jean-François Chougnet (President of MUCEM)
  • Jean-Denis Walter (Director of the JDW and Cosmos gallery)
  • Sandra Grangeray (Photo editor in Le Monde)
  • Eric Baradat (AFP) François Gilles (The Team)
  • Frédéric Boutroux (Director of Novotel Narbonne)