This first edition’s judging panel made of recognized personalities of both photography and board sports fields was handpicked to select the best images in each category and award the prizes:
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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.
For this first edition of the Board Culture Exposure, we are delighted to have Fred as president of the jury.
Born in 1988, Maia Flore is a French photographer, art director and video artist who lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles. A 2010 graduate of the Ecole des Gobelins, Maia Flore is developing an artistic approach based on a search for coincidence between the real and the imaginary. Winner of the HSBC Prize for Photography in 2015, her photographs are regularly exhibited in France and abroad and have been included in prestigious collections such as those of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, the Fondation de France, the Opéra National de Paris and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco.
His first monograph, Rememories, was published by Actes Sud in 2015, and his second, D’îles en Lune, by ContreJour. In 2024, a third book is planned to accompany the “Fou Rire Rêve Fou” exhibition, which opens in July in Normandy at the Daniel Havis Foundation, Matmut for the Arts.
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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.
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Arnaud Binard hails from Seignosse in the Landes region of France.
An actor, producer and surfer, he divides his life between the ocean and the city, and has been passionate about Board Culture since the 80s.
Currently starring in the series Emily In Paris, he has just finished shooting an international thriller in Prague for the cinema, and is developing several fiction projects in production, all of which will soon be filmed in the South-West of France.
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From an early age, he has been passionate about board sports and their inexhaustible source of inspiration. Born between the ocean and the mountains, he never wanted to choose between his 2 addictive sports, surfing and snowboarding. With a level of sport that didn’t allow him to reach the professional level, he specialised in communication and management of board sports.
This indefatigable creative talent, combined with his natural ease in dealing with people, has enabled him to evolve in the image world of this industry for over 20 years.
Starting with Nuits de la glisse, then the specialist press Surf session / Ride On / BeachBrother, not forgetting events, trade shows and finally the marketing departments of several major brands, he has professional experience and a keen eye for the subject.
He believes that ‘Board Kulture’, as Bruno Débauche so aptly called it, deserves to be highlighted, with a view to passing on this passion to future generations.
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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.
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Born at the foot of the Pyrenees, Mathieu grew up in a geographical and family environment conducive to the discovery of Board Culture. From a very young age, he sailed between the mountains and the ocean, taking part in his first Quik Cup, an iconic cross-country event in the 90s, at the age of 9.
He went on to enjoy a successful career as a professional snowboarder, winning several world titles and taking part in two Olympic Games. Despite all this, he remains intimately connected to Board Culture. Skateboarding and surfing are part of his daily life and a constant source of inspiration.
Curious and a jack-of-all-trades, Mathieu also takes the time to do video parts with the biggest snowboard film production companies and collaborates with renowned photographers. Aware that the creative aspect of Board Culture is what makes it unique, Mathieu now produces some of his own films and continues to ride every type of board possible.
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Surfer, journalist, community activist. Born in Biarritz in 1957, he was lucky enough to have been immersed in surfing from childhood and to have made it his life’s work.
His teenage years were steeped in the surf culture of the 70s, with a penchant for travelling and experiencing everything. Then created Surf Session magazine with Pierre-Bernard Gascogne in 1986. Joined the team with Tom Curren, giving birth to Surfrider Foundation Europe in 1990.
Since 1994, has published the French version of the bi-monthly Surfer’s Journal, created in California by Steve and Debbee Pezman in 1992. Has written various books on surfing and waves in motion. Could have been a photographer and has retained a sincere appreciation of photography.
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Alexis Atteret, French graphic designer, photographer and art director, founded his studio, Atteret Design, in 1998, specialising in luxury and culture. The studio works on projects with well-known clients such as Virgin, Fnac and Sony.
At the same time, he travelled around Europe as a photographer, capturing intimate and powerful moments on tour for some of the biggest names in music, including Depeche Mode, Dua Lipa, Ben Harper, Guns N’ Roses, Liam Gallagher, Gorillaz and many others. His first book, “A Live Vision”, will be released in 2021, offering a captivating insight into six years of musical touring.
In 2019, he launches Atteret Publishing, a publishing house dedicated to photography, broadening his field of artistic expression.
In 2021, his creative impetus propelled him to the position of artistic director of Surf Session magazine, until he became its owner in 2023, sailing towards new artistic horizons.
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Alex Laurel grew up in Africa, where he discovered surfing and photography. In 1998, he was published in Surf Session magazine with a feature on Hawaiian surfing legends. In 2000, he became Staff Photographer for Surf Europe magazine and the following year was appointed Photo Editor.
For more than a decade, he worked under contract with several surf brands, shooting advertising campaigns. Nike Surfing recruited him into their creative team where he spent 3 years developing their artistic vision. With the press erratic and the golden age of the surf industry running out of steam, he turned to filmmaking and soon became a producer for Red Bull Media House.
He was soon drawn to documentary filmmaking, and went on to produce several award-winning projects.
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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.