Photographer's Profile

Thierry Lagnel

Switzerland

Born in 1992, I am a swiss amateur photographer from the french speaking area of Switzerland. I began photography as a hobby in 2015 and it really became a passion in 2018 when I began wildlife photography with a bigger camera. In 2022, I tried to do other things than wild animals and I began to look for landscapes when I was in the wild. The same year, I began to shoot photos with people but it was not with models and it was not really street photography either. In july 2022, friends told me to try competitions with my photo"The shapes of water" taken the same year. I trier the Swiss Photo Club compétition and I was choses in the top 50 to be featured in a gallery in Geneva. It was the first time that my work was exposes and I arrived at rank 5 of the competition. It gave me motivation to try international competitions. I got my first honorable mentions in EPEX Photo Awards 2022 and then an other one at Annual Photography Awards 2022. In 2023, I got two korê honorable mention in Px3 Prix de la photographie de Paris. In September 2023, I went to official selection (finale) of the 20th edition of International Photography Awards IPA and also got an honorable mention. I got featured in a book for the first time in November 2023 with the second efition of Colors Awards organized by Dodho Magazine. One of my photo was in the top 100 photograpers of the year and got featured in the Color Book 2023. I got my first prizes in New York Photography Awards in December 2023: gold winner with "The shapes of water" and silver winner with "Illusion", both in Natural Art category.