All with a keen eye for photography, art and board culture, we’re delighted to welcome a highly eclectic panel of jury members to the 2025 edition. Find out who they are.
All with a keen eye for photography, art and board culture, we’re delighted to welcome a highly eclectic panel of jury members to the 2025 edition. Find out who they are.
President of the 2025 jury / Art Director
Honorary publisher
Fisheye Magazine Editor-in-Chief / Photographer
Artist
Photographer / Director
B.C.E. co-founder / Photographer
Photographer / Director
B.C.E. co-founder / Photographer
Photographer
Photographer / Editor
Photographer / Chef
Dj / Photographer
Photographer
President of the 2025 jury / Directeur Artistique
Yorgo Tloupas, born in 1974, is a renowned art director and logotype expert. He works with luxury brands, the art world, fashion labels, sports clubs, media groups and the automotive industry.
A first-generation snowboarder in Europe, from 1985 on a HawaÏ Surf kit board, to some competitive adventures with Rossignol in the 90s, he redesigned the Rossignol Snowboards logo and the 1996 and 1997 board and accessory ranges.
Skateboarder since 1986, active on the Parisian Bastille scene, he created the logo for Street Machine Skateshop in 2001. Yorgo is also one of the skateboarders featured in Raphaël Zarka’s book “Riding Modern Art”, with a photo of a nosebone over the metal fountain Place St Germain des Près, captured by Alexis Zavialoff and published in Transworld Skateboarding.
Of Greek origin, he was among the pioneers of surfing on the Aegean coast, and recently collaborated with Surfin Estate in Hossegor on a limited edition shortboard. In 2023, he created the brand identity for Agile Surfboards in Bidart.
Involved with the blackcrows ski brand since its inception, he participates in its expansion as a shareholder and artistic director. The blackcrows 2017/2018 ski range is part of the permanent design collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
He has been creative director for magazines such as Vanity Fair France, GQ France, BeauxArts, Libération and Les Inrockuptibles.
He has created campaigns for Omega and Loro Piana, and designed visual identities for Art Basel, Artcurial, Cartier, Hermès, Hôtel de Crillon, Martell, Ricard and many others.
Yorgo teaches logo history and design at Penninghen, IFM, ECAL and SciencesPo Paris and lectures around the world. His 2018 TEDx Talk on (re)branding is the only TED Talk tackling the subject of the logo. He has been the subject of articles and interviews in magazines and books, including Wallpaper*, Vogue, Apartamento, Eye, Grafik, Slanted, Creative Review, Zeit, Brutus, Le Nouvel Observateur…
Fisheye Magazine Editor-in-Chief / Photographer
Fabrice Laroche, editor-in-chief of Fisheye magazine and photographer, was born in 1968. He lives in Paris and from an early age learns laboratory processing techniques. In 1990, he joined a prestigious Parisian studio, learning from major figures in contemporary photography. Launching his career as a writer in 1999, he devotes himself to photography and artistic and commercial filmmaking, collaborating with luxury brands, fashion designers and magazines.
Since 2017, he has focused on his own creations, exhibited in galleries and festivals, while passing on his passion by teaching at the École Gobelins Paris.
Photographer / Director
Fred Mortagne, also known as French Fred, is a video maker and photographer from Lyon. He has orchestrated the making of many legendary skate videos, such as “Menikmati” for éS shoes, “Sorry” for Flip Skateboards and “Bon Appétit” for Cliché Skateboards. To counterbalance this approach to marketing for brands, he has developed a much more personal approach to his photographic work.
Geometric compositions, leaking lines, the complicity between light and shadow, black and white, and grain are the intimate ingredients of his photographs. His approach to skateboarding is far removed from sports photography in general. Fascinated by the elegance of movement, he has always favoured the aesthetic character of skateboarding, and reveals the intimate relationship that skateboarders have with the urban environment in which they move.
In 2024, for the first edition of the Board Culture Exposure, we were delighted to have Fred as president of the jury.
Photographer / Director
Jérôme Tanon is a French photographer and filmmaker, active since 2007. One of a kind, he quickly switched from digital photography to working exclusively with film. Self-taught and creative in the darkroom, he is known for his timeless, intimate creations, with their typical grain and black-and-white aesthetic. He is best known for his double-exposure work, warm-toned lith prints, bromoils and etchings. His photographs are regularly exhibited and published in snowboard magazines around the world.
In 2016, Jérôme released the self-produced documentary “The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding”, which has become a classic with millions of views on YouTube. His second film, “Zabardast”, a freeride expedition in the Karakoram, wins numerous festival awards and gives rise to his first photography book, a compendium of his Pentax 6×7 journey.
In 2020, after two seasons with the women’s scene, he published “Heroes – Women In Snowboarding”, a community art book accompanied by a traveling photo exhibition. His work combines several techniques, including negative etching and lithography. This was followed by his films “Free Rider” and “Bleau Dans La Peau”, and finally in 2024 by “Of A Lifetime”, centered on the father-daughter relationship during an expedition to Antarctica with the de Le Rue family. Once again, a photo book accompanies the project.
Photographer
Mathias Fennetaux, French artist and photographer, grew up in Paris and immersed himself in skate culture from an early age. Bronze medallist in street skating at Trocadéro in the ’80s, he immersed himself in the American counterculture of the ’90s and became one of its most emblematic photographers.
In 2000, alongside Bruno Debauché, he was involved in the creation of the cult magazines of the golden age of Board Culture, with Ride On, then Blast. In 2011, with a preface by J.G. Brittain, he published No Skateboarding, the first monograph devoted to the great legends of American skateboarding. Exploring new artistic dimensions, in 2016 he signed Et puis Biarritz, a poetic work combining wandering and contrasts between city and ocean. In 2022, he unveiled Still Life, My Sole, My Youth, an introspective series on sneakers, reflecting a history where fashion, design and skate culture intersect.
Pursuing his work on light, he collaborates with numerous brands and splits his time between Biarritz and Paris.
Photographer / Chef
After studying at the Beaux-Arts, MB turned to painting and set design, before devoting herself fully to fashion photography in Paris for several years. At the same time, she developed her personal work around the skateboarding scene, then surfing when she returned to her native Basque country. It’s an observational approach to youth, which she sublimates as ultra-creative, with its own codes and language, both clannish and universal.
The resulting photographs, lifelong encounters and a book published by 0fr Paris, Lux Adulescentia (Luminous Youth).
In addition to her work as a photographer MB has developed a career as a chef since 2019, a community entity called Naked Lunch.
Photographer
In the 60s, he discovered this little-known sport, which quickly became an all-consuming passion. Between two competitions with the French National team, he pursued studies in economics, but photography fascinated him above all else. After a trip to Tahiti in 1976, he decided to devote his life to the ocean. Armed with a Nikon camera, he travels the world to capture the most memorable moments of surfing and windsurfing. No spot escapes him, whether in Australia, Fiji or the Basque Coast. Hawaii, however, remains his favorite destination, where he has spent every winter since 1980. A pioneer in the world of surfing, he was the first to immortalize unique moments such as the beginnings of tow-in, paddle and foil surfing with waterman Laird Hamilton. In the water or in the air, he captures the exploits of the greatest surfers. His talent is recognized worldwide. His photos have been published in leading magazines, used in numerous advertising campaigns, and exhibited in galleries and museums.
Over the last ten years or so, his work has evolved towards a more artistic field, which he exhibits in his gallery on rue Gambetta, in Biarritz. Here, he presents limited-edition fine-art prints in a style of his own, where blurs rub shoulders with sepia-toned atmospheres. Each photo tells a unique story, from unforgettable moments in the history of surfing to persona artistic creations.
Honorary publisher
In 1983, he joined Robert Delpire, founder and director of the Centre national de la photographie, as head of editorial distribution. In particular, he was responsible for developing the international “Photo Poche” collection, the first paperback history of photography. In 1996, he joined Editions Nathan as editor of photography and images, a position he held until 2003. In 2004, he was appointed head of the photography department at Editions Actes Sud, and became deputy director of the Photo Poche collection, still directed by its creator Robert Delpire. Within the Méjan association (Arles), he is in charge of programming and curating exhibitions presented in partnership with the Rencontres internationales de la photographie until 2019. Regular member of numerous juries (Prix Niépce, FNAC, European Publisher’s Award, etc.) and Folio Review expert.
Artist
By exploring feminity through stereotypes and using them to her advantage, Fafi not only knocked her male colleagues and competitors out their socks, she also locked toy manufacturing deals with Sony and Medicom, countless press stories and illustrations for Commons & Sense, Vogue, or Elle, big market collaborations with Adidas, M.A.C, Hennessy, Swatch, Samsung, Chanel and Le SportSac, not to mention many solo and prestigious group shows in the most respected galleries around the globe.
Her presence during the last Miami Art Basel at Wynwood walls “Women on the walls” curated by Jeffrey Deitch, brought her back to the art world with two art pieces showcasing her usual Fafinettes and a flower installation opened to new mediums.
Becoming a mother, her next natural move was animating the ‘Fafinettes’ in music videos like Tigersushi Joakim, Mark Ronson, Ed Banger, Mademoiselle Yulia, Azealia Banks and M.I.A.
For her first comic book ‘THE CARMINE VAULT’ released on eminent Rizzoli Books and Alternatives, Fafi ran for the occasion a Signature world tour in major cities around the globe gathering her friends and throwing parties from Mexico city to Tokyo and L.A to London.
Now not only the Fafinettes are fly girls, they also run a whole universe of creatures, homes and vehicles. It’s a dreamy and peculiar place.
Fafi currently lives and work between Paris and Biarritz and is working on the second volume of her comic.
Innovating recently with a unique project called “Portraits Happenings” Fafi is about to tour worldwide with her brushes and watercolor to draw her fans and collectors in a singular art experience.
B.C.E. co-founder / Photographer
A native of the Paris region, it was when he arrived in the south-west of France in the mid-80s that Greg fell into board culture for good: BMX, skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding were all within a day’s ride!
After around ten years making a living from snowboarding, documenting his tricks and trips for the specialist press and his sponsors, he moved into marketing for a number of major brands in the board sports industry, and then one thing led to another and set up his own consultancy and events agency, while managing his brand cOLLAPSe skateboards alongside his many other activities.
Now a commentator at the biggest skateboarding events and a TV consultant for the Olympic Games, he spends a lot of time with his camera if he’s not talking into a microphone! He is also co-founder of the Board Culture Exposure festival.
Co-founder / Photographer
From Beirut to Jakarta, Tehran to Havana, Lima to Bombay, the Namibian desert to Icelandic glaciers, Red Square to Corcovado, photographer Kevin Métallier has been reporting from the four corners of the globe at a frenetic pace for over two decades. This prestidigitator of the moment has devoted much of his life to documenting subcultures such as skateboarding and surfing, both of which he is passionate about.
By collaborating with an impressive number of specialist magazines around the world and accumulating commissions for iconic brands, he quickly gained international recognition. The street became his favourite playground. As he likes to say: “visually, I equate skateboarding with a succession of fascinating avant-garde choreographies, flirting with madness, where the street acts as a theatre”.
Based on the Basque Coast for 20 years, this hyperactive visual artist regularly works on new projects (Skateboard Annual Magazine, De Biarritz Yearbook, Studio 255…). He is co-founder of the Board Culture Exposure festival.
Photographer / Editor
Based in Montpellier with his wife and 3 daughters, Matt started skateboarding and snowboarding at the age of 12 in Grenoble, France. He got his first job at Freestyler magazine as a graphic designer at the age of 19 while studying Fine Art. He soon realised that going on trips and taking photos was much more fun than sitting in an office with his arse in his chair, putting other people’s adventures on the page. Over the last 20 years, he has worn many hats and worked as a photo editor, senior photographer, curator and art director for numerous campaigns and brands around the world.
In 2019, alongside his many and varied activities, he founded CLUB SANDWICH, a hybrid studio and independent publishing house specialising in snowboard, skateboard and surf culture.
Dj / Photographer
DJ Falcon (real name Stéphane Quême) is a key figure on the French electronic music scene. A local Trocadero skater, his musical adventure began in the mid-90s in Paris, where he organized parties at the Bains Douches with his childhood friend Pedro Winter aka Busy P, marking the start of what would later be known as the French Touch.
He soon became friends with Thomas Bangalter, and their many collaborations, notably on Daft Punk’s Alive world tour, for which DJ Falcon produced DJ sets and official photos, were rewarded with a Grammy Award in 2014 for co-producing the track ‘Contact’ on Daft Punk’s last album, Random Access Memories.
Based in Biarritz for over twenty years, DJ Falcon never misses an opportunity to surf when the conditions are right, just as he never stops photographing the places he visits on his many travels, photos which he has exhibited on several occasions from Paris to LA by way of Tokyo.
In 2023, he created the Braxe + Falcon project with his cousin Alan Braxe, and at the same time played alongside Étienne de Crecy & Boombass (Cassius) – a 6-handed B2B2B – to celebrate 25 years of the French Touch! The highlight of this anniversary year: a remarkable performance during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games at the Stade de France!