2025 Edition
The
Awards
Of Board Culture Exposure 2025
2025 Winner
Grand Jury Prize
Mascaret Vayres by /
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Skateboard Photography
Ticino by /
Filip Zuan
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Surf Photography
Victoria Vergara by /
Boris Romann
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Snowboard Photography
Backside Lipslide Pretzel by /
Alex Roberts
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Lifestyle Photography
Push Me Analog by /
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Reportage Photography
Uzbekistan by /
Presented by:
2025 Winner
People's Choice Award
Eimeo Teahupoo by /
Gaetan Charlin
Presented by:
2025 Winner
Live Photo Contest Skateboard
by /
Presented by:
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2025 Winner
Live Photo Contest Surf
by /
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Board Culture Exposure Edition #2, by the numbers
9 days celebrating board culture, and what a result. The 2025 edition of BCE confirmed the festival’s place in Biarritz’s cultural landscape and beyond.
In the lead-up to the festival, over 250 international amateur and professional photographers submitted their applications to the competition. The jury, who received more than 2,000 images, selected 36 photographers whose approximately 70 photographs were exhibited during the event at the Casino Municipal de Biarritz, Salon Diane. In total, 9 Awards were presented, including 2 to reward the winners of the Skateboard and Surf Live Photo Contests.
In addition to the main exhibition at the Casino, the festival featured 4 “Off-Site” installations in iconic Biarritz locations: White Umami at Atabal, Retro by Benjamin Deberdt at the Médiathèque, Dance of the Seagulls at Le Labho, and Beyond The Sandbank on the Côte des Basques promenade.
On the cinema front, the Royal hosted 3 feature films with directors in attendance – MENIKMATI, THE BIG SEA and THE ETERNAL BEAUTY OF SNOWBOARDING – while the Casino screened 11 short films on themes all related to Board Culture.
The program was enhanced with a skateboard demo facing the ocean, a drawing workshop on modules for children, 3 photography workshops (Surf, Skateboard & Lifestyle), portfolio reviews highly appreciated by photography enthusiasts, and 5 conferences bringing together major players from the action sports scene. On the music side, 15 Live DJ sets successfully punctuated the festival evenings.
The public responded enthusiastically: 5,000 unique visitors explored the exhibitions and side events. BCE’s official Instagram account generated over 2.5 million views over 2 months. Finally, the festival benefited from more than 70 press mentions in international general and specialized media: The Good Life, Elle Magazine, Sud Ouest, FishEye… and many others.
Today, in the aftermath of this 2nd chapter, we can say that we are proud of the work accomplished by our entire team. These promising figures illustrate the success of this 2025 edition and reinforce our ambition to grow the festival, which undoubtedly has bright days ahead…
See you in 2026 for the third edition of Board Culture Exposure.
Thanks
The Board Culture Exposure would not have been possible without the support and involvement of our friends, families, volunteers, jury members, and partners.
We would therefore like to thank :
Our partners
La ville de Biarritz
Leica
RVCA
adidas skateboarding
Nixon
Eastpak
Camara Bayonne
Profilkolor
Pub Factory
Carlbreak
O Bamboo
Arkaic Concept
The Good Life
Fisheye
Surf Session
Act Snowboarding
Surfers Journal
Sundai Skate Mag
SB Journal
Surf Cities
Waves and Woods
Bubble
Impact Zone
Groupe Clim / Lexus
MC Box
Jebrane Désigaud
Turbulente Kombucha
Ocean 52
Carlsberg
Baron Philippe de Rotschild
Bleach
Manoa Chocolate
Brozer Café
Hôtel Le Relais Biarritz
Kepa
Musique d’Apéritif
La Division 2
Aberdeen Records
Dj Skillz
T-Roy
Melo bomb
Daz
Dj Uneek
Marius Peralta
Henny de Bassy
Fred Vadé
Our 2025 Jury president
Yorgo Tloupas
And his members
Mélanie Bordas
Sylvain Cazenave
Mathias Fennetaux
Fafi
Matt Georges
Fabrice Laroche
Fred Mortagne
Stephane Quesme (Dj Falcon)
Benoit Rivero
Jérôme Tanon
Our ambassadeur
Arnaud Binard
And the staff of :
La Médiathèque
L’Atabal
Le Royal
Le LABHO
We would also like to thank all participating photographers for their trust. We hope to see many of you again next year!
Felix Adler (AT)
Guillaume Benichou (FR)
Nicolas Buechi (CH)
Germain Favre-Felix (FR)
Kuba Freter (DE)
Benoit Gea (FR)
Riera Gerard (ES)
Fortuna Giancarlo (PT)
Lukas M. Gross (AT)
Prittam Gurung (NP)
Rami Hanafi (FI)
Lorenz Holder (DE)
Storm Jansen (NL)
Tristan Keroullé (FR)
Manuel Kokseder (AT)
Benjamin Littler (US)
Ferjan Nejc (SI)
Yanick Nolet (CA)
Hannes Mautner (AT)
Lucila Muntaner (FR)
Mason Miller (US)
Marcus Paladino (CA)
Sam Partaix (FR)
Julien « Perly » Petry (FR)
Valerio Barbarossa (FR)
Marie Pfisterer (FR)
Tobias Ulbrich (DE)
Fabian Reichenbach (DE)
Alex Roberts (SE)
Joseph Roby (CA)
Boris Romann (FR)
Pierre Sassi (FR)
Benjamin Deberdt (FR)
Joseph Secousse (FR)
Olivier Sorondo (FR)
Sami Tuoriniemi (FI)
Colin Wiseman (US)
Filip Zuan (CH)
Basile Di Manski (FR)
Dean « Blotto » Gray(US)
Jérôme Tanon (FR)
Matt Georges (FR)
Rami Hanafi (FR)
Andrew Miller(US)
Cyril Mueller(SW)
Matt Foley (US)
Domminic Zimmermann (SW)
Aaron Schwartz(CAN)
Aaron Blatt(US)
Thelio Luciano (FR)
Kane Brown (AUS)
Camille Robiou Du Pont (FR)
Mickey Smith(EN)
Ryan Tatar (US)
Cesar Ancelle Ansen (FR)
Josephine Walker(EN)
Julien « Binch » Binet (FR)
Daniel Espirito Santo (PT)
Crisitna Gareau (CAN)
Stella Carre (FR)
Sarah Witt (FR)
Adrien Vigreux (FR)
Pierre Antoine Lalaude (FR)
Florian Miot Bruneau (FR)
Dora Marquer (FR)
Clara Groussin (FR)
Théo Preuilh (FR)
Karl Kolak (FR)
Thomas Aulagner (FR)
Alban Laurent (FR)
Greg Poissonnier (FR)
Medhi Benkaci (FR)
Laurent Meuzy (FR)
Finally, a HUGE thank you to our volunteers for their unwavering dedication. Without their generous gift of time and energy, none of this would be possible.
Sarah Lamrini
Stéphanie Quiez
Mathieu Dalin
Jérémy Hugues
Kim Barthelemy
Edith Lamboley
Nicolas Ciriego
Anthony Albanese
Marion Pourcel
Lucas Guerrero
Loïc Le fournier
Sam Smith
Dorian Lesca
Yannick Bidot
Quentin Delpech
Vincent Coupeau
Matt Georges
Fred Mortagne
Vickie Mayne
Stéphanie Riondé
Ewan Person
Tom Arnault
Arthur Boulleret
Irène et Noël Métallier
Philou Augusto
Seb Abès
Marine Jorda
Caroline Crozet
Jeanne Felices
Laure Dall’erba
Julia Nalis
Briard Loïc
Caroline Godille
Noelle Dillman
Coraline Danthez
Benjamin Perez
Matthieu Séjourné
Justine Bonnet
Emma Pasteur
Camille Nordin
Inès Dillet
Baptiste Bacquet
Marie Wuithier
Bruno D’Antin
Marion Tamayo
Laura Potron
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