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17/05/2026

It is with great sadness that we learned that Larry Lazarus recently passed away.
Larry was a darkroom worm, he lived in his darkroom, producing amazing prints, giving life to the photographs.
I was lucky to meet him, as Larry was extensively using our Bergger Prestige papers for his art.
Larry was the light.

31/03/2026

I am too alone in this world yet not alone enough by

“A four-month retreat in isolation on the island of Amorgos, exploring solitude as a space of transformation, sensuality and quiet resistance.”

Presented as part of the Bergger Analog Photo Prize 2025.

17/10/2025

🏆 Grand Prize Winner

Founded in 1858, Bergger has been dedicated to the excellence of black and white photography for over a century and a half.
From film to paper, from chemistry to the darkroom, the brand’s mission has always been to support artists who explore the materiality and depth of photographic creation.

Continuing this legacy, the BERGGER Analog Photo Prize for Black and White Photography was created to celebrate the vitality of analog practice today honoring projects that combine craftsmanship, vision, and emotion.

For its first edition, the prize received over 620 submissions from around the world, revealing an extraordinary diversity of approaches and sensitivity.
Each project offered a distinct perspective through the timeless language of film photography.

We are proud to announce the Winner of the BERGGER Analog Photo Prize 2025 🏆

Huseyin Ovayolu — Uprooted

Through a hauntingly beautiful exploration of memory, displacement, and identity, Uprooted stood out for its poetic strength, technical mastery, and emotional depth.

All shortlisted artists will receive a 100€ voucher for our online store, a gesture of appreciation for their remarkable contribution to this year’s edition.

We warmly thank the jury and all participants for reaffirming the creative power of analog photography.

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14/10/2025

SHORTLIST 🏆 Bergger Analog Photo Prize

Simon Vansteenwinckel

Aux ombres

Every December, in North and South Dakota, members of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes gather for a 450 km horseback ride lasting 15 days, under temperatures that can drop as low as -20°C.
They retrace the path of Chief Big Foot’s band, whose 300 members mostly women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890.

Today, the Lakotas live on reservations in extremely precarious conditions, kept in dependency by the U.S. government. Confined to barren lands in the heart of one of the world’s richest nations, their living standards are comparable to those of the developing world. Violence, drugs, alcohol, unemployment life expectancy for men on the reservations is around 45 years. In 2024, some families still live without running water or sanitation.

This is what international media usually show: a caricature of poverty. Yet their resilience is immense, their spirituality remains powerful, and their pride unbroken. A people who have endured some of the darkest injustices in history, but who continue to live, to move forward, in strength and solidarity.

This series seeks to reveal that strength through the Omaka Tokatakiya / Future Generations Ride a spiritual journey where, for two weeks, elders care for the youth, teach them to ride, to show kindness, and to reconnect with the spirit and history of their nation.

As they say themselves, this is not a simple ride, but a spiritual ride.

14/10/2025

SHORTLIST 🏆 Bergger Analog Photo Prize

Édouard Elias

Syrie année 0

The Syrian civil war has turned the country into a landscape of absences. Since 2011, entire cities have been reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of people have vanished into the regime’s prisons. Incarceration—in Damascus as in Tadmor—was not the exception but the rule, a machinery of power that swallowed bodies and erased names.

Arthur Koestler, in Darkness at Noon, described the forced repetition of confession that breaks the individual until he denies his own existence. Stefan Zweig, in The Royal Game, imagined instead a prisoner who survives by voluntarily replaying mental chess matches to stave off madness. These visions converge in the Syrian experience, where repetition becomes both an instrument of domination and the last resort for staying upright.

Inside the prisons, memory itself was systematically attacked: disappearances, mass graves, and the erasure of archives all aimed to dissolve even the possibility of remembrance. Yet traces remain—scratched walls, trembling inscriptions, fragments of graffiti. These involuntary marks become archives in spite of themselves. Hannah Arendt reminded us that without memory, no permanence is possible: these material scars matter precisely because they endure, even when everything conspires to erase them.

Thucydides, in recounting the Peloponnesian War, claimed to write not to please the moment but to create “a possession for all time,” emphasizing the repetition of the same mechanisms of fear and domination through the centuries. Syria reenacts this pattern: besieged cities, civilians held hostage, prisons used as instruments of control. Today’s ruins and cells join a long continuum of experiences marked by enforced forgetting and defiant remembrance.

14/10/2025

SHORTLIST 🏆 Bergger Analog Photo Prize

Toby Binder

Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast

There is hardly any other country in Europe where a past conflict is still as present in daily life as Northern Ireland. Not only by physical barriers as walls and fences but also through a psychologically divided society. I have been documenting what it means for young people, all of whom were born after the peace agreement was signed, to grow up under this intergenerational tension – in both, Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods.

»If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself, the attachments made to a culture, heritage, religion, nationalism and politics are all an accident of birth. I was one street away from being born my ‘enemy’«. Paul McVeigh, Belfast-born novelist

I have been documenting the daily life of teenagers in British working-class communities for almost two decades. After the Brexit referendum I focussed this work on Belfast in Northern Ireland. There was a serious concern that the final implementation of Brexit will threaten the Peace Agreement of 1998 that ended the armed conflict between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists who live in homogeneous neighborhoods that are divided by walls till today. These two communities in Belfast who seem to have irreconcilable differences, are more similar than they’d both like to admit. While they still stick to their own symbols of their identity and tradition, they wear the same clothes, have the same haircuts, listen to the same music, drink the same beer, take the same drugs and often the same worries such as violence, unemployment, social discrimination and therefore, lack of prospects.

14/10/2025

SHORTLIST 🏆 Bergger Analog Photo Prize

Thibault Lefebure

Temporary Land

This photographic work bears witness to a form of exile that intertwines the ancestral myth of pastoralism with the harsh realities of contemporary political struggle.

In Lebanon, one-third of Syrian refugees are reportedly unemployed in a labor market with virtually no regulation. Often low-skilled, those who manage to find work endure difficult conditions for very low wages. In rural areas, refugees sometimes appear more accepted by Lebanese society. Yet, it is primarily the men’s presence that is desired—as cross-border laborers. The long-term settlement of their families is perceived as a burden on an already strained socio-economic system.

In the mountains, however, non-industrial agriculture survives thanks to this cheap labor force, which has preserved ancestral values and knowledge: pastoralism. Herders and shepherds work together to feed the flock and, through careful management of grazing lands, sustain resources for years to come.

Today, conflicts, displacement, and political divisions have fractured these ancient ties. Agriculture—once a unifying force—can no longer bridge divided communities, and this fragmentation contributes to the degradation of Mediterranean ecosystems.

Through their movements across the mountains emerges a complex relationship with a land that is both a refuge from the violence of war and a source of discrimination. As Syrians, they belong geographically and culturally to the Mediterranean basin, yet their status as refugees distances them from a land that still feels like home.

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