And starts the fight

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Seasons
• Photographer
  Anne-Claire Vimal du Monteil
• Socials
• Website
  https://anneclairevdm.cargocollective.com/

In Montreal, a small bowl shaped park. Piled up layers of winter. The first attacks of spring, inexorable. Snow turns into water and then into ice. Last burst of a dying winter. Trees drowned in mud. Broken lines, frozen or dancing reflections. Winter will soon be defeated Eternal return

• Biography
  Anne-Claire Vimal du Monteil has been living in Montreal for the past 11 years. She worked in culture and cinema in Paris and then chose to become a high end retoucher and commercial photographer 14 years ago. In 2016, she transitioned to fine art photography and developed her research with different techniques and expressions within the medium.
• Awards
  - Applied Arts Awards 2020 (Toronto) : winner, Portrait category, Salma, Flower portraits. - Concours Lux 2019 (Montréal) : Finalist, 2 awarded projects, In the bedroom (personal research category) and Urban Vegetation, part 2 (Land- scape/Nature category) - International Color Awards, ICA 12, 2019 : short list, Fine Art category, Ghosts 03 - Monochrome Photography Awards, MPA 2018 (international) : Honorable mention, Portrait category, Respire ! - Monochrome Photography Awards, MPA 2018 (international) : Honorable mention, Portrait category, Fanny - Monochrome Photography Awards, MPA 2018 (international) : Honorable mention, Portrait category, 5 senses, vision - International Photography Awards IPA 2018 : Honorable mention, Fine Art photography category, portrait, Apparition and various moods of a bathtub naiad - International Photography Awards IPA 2018 : Honorable mention, Fine Art photography category, portrait, Breathe ! - Applied Arts Awards 2018 (Toronto): winner, catégorie Portrait, Portrait of a bathtub naiad specimen - Tokyo International Foto Awards TIFA 2017 : Finalist, Gold Award, Fine Art photography category, special effects, Ghosts - Tokyo International Foto Awards TIFA 2017 : Finalist, Silver Award, Nature category, Seasons, And starts the fight - Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3 2016 (international) : Honorable mention, Ghosts