06/04/2025

Announcing the panel of judges for MontPhoto 2025

For this 2025 edition we would like to announce the selected members of the jury, as always, diverse, international and with an important array of backgrounds and views. Mixing experience and talent.

Morgan Heim.  https://morganheim.com/

Conservation photographer and filmmaker Morgan Heim explores personal stories behind protecting wildlife and their ecosystems. She is a National Geographic Explorer, Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and founder of Neon Raven Story Labs — a production house dedicated to stories of nature and our relationships with it. A recipient in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Big Picture and Siena International Photography Awards, you can find her work in Audubon, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and The New York Times.

Francis Pérez.  https://francisperez.es/

Francis Pérez, born in Tenerife, professional underwater photographer and Economist.

His photographs depict his world in such places as Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, South Africa, Mozambique, Micronesia, Philippines, Galapagos, Papua (Indonesia), Mexico, Chile, Mauritius and above all the Canary Islands, his favourite place to dive.

He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Spain on the marine biodiversity of the Canary Islands.

He has published in numerous national and international magazines for the past 20 years.

Member of SeaLegacy Collective 2019, Founding member of Pelagic Life Canarias (Europe) 2017, Member of the international committee of the Whale Heritage Site 2020.

In recent years he has been awarded numerous international prizes, such as the prestigious World Press Photo 2017, First prize in the nature category.

Heike Odermatt.  www.odermatt.nl

Born and raised in the Southern part of Germany, Heike Odermatt and her family moved to the Netherlands when she was 16 years old. Since 2002 nature photography has become her passion and content of life, although not professionally.

She feels at home in all disciplines from landscape to wildlife and macro to abstract and creative approaches were no stranger to her from the beginning.

Heike is a member of the GDT, NFG (Dutch Nature Photographers Guild) and Nature First. Her photographs are regularly published in various magazines and calendars worldwide and have won awards in prestigious national and international competitions.

Eladio Fernández.   www.eladiofernandez.com

Eladio Fernández is an affiliate member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), research associate at the National Botanical Garden of the Dominican Republic, environmental advisor to the Propagas Foundation, director of environmental documentaries and conservationist. Over the course of 25 years he has built up one of the largest image banks of flora, fauna and landscapes of the Greater Antilles.

Diana Crestan.   www.dianacrestan.com
Diana Crestan is a self-taught photographer specialising in nature and landscapes. Through yours images, I seek to create a deep emotional connection between people and the magic of the scenes photographed, recreating an atmosphere of beauty and poetry in which they can immerse themselves.

She is co-organiser of the BioPhotoContest nature photography competition and the BioPhotoFestival. She is also a member of AFNI, the Association of Italian Naturalist Photographers, where she was responsible for the FVG section and was a member of the Board of Directors.