Last year, TRIUMF participated in the Global Physics Photowalk where 16 science laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America invited photographers to take part in a photowalk — a rare opportunity to visit and photograph physics facilities from behind the scenes. The Global Physics Photowalk is a collection of 48 winning photos, three from each individual Photowalk, capturing moments that tell compelling stories through the lens. From breathtaking underground landscapes to intimate portraits of machinery used in big experiments, the selected images showcase the creativity and technical skill of both amateur and professional photographers.
We’re finally able to share the results of our local photowalk that occurred last summer at TRIUMF and invite you to vote on the Global Photowalk’s website.
Locally, a group of judges reviewed all 50 submitted images from the group of photographers that spent an afternoon at TRIUMF. They then chose their top three images which were submitted to the Global competition. We’ll share those results once the Global competition announces the winners next month.
Late last year, we opened the voting up to our internal community at TRIUMF to vote on a local People’s Choice Award and you can now view the results of that vote. You can also view all the submissions from the participating local photographers.
The Global Physics Photowalk Competition
The Global competition winners will be announced on February 12th at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, where they will also be displayed for the first time. A selection of the winning photos will also be published in the CERN Courier.
“We are thrilled to invite the public to help judge this international competition showcasing physics experiments from around the world,” said Peter Genzer, co-chair of the Interactions Collaboration and manager of the Media & Communications Office at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. “Each of these 48 photographs offers a unique window into different cultures, environments, and human experiences. We invite everyone to view these remarkable images and help us select the winners.”
The Global Physics Photowalk is organized by the Interactions Collaboration, an international network of particle physics institutions. This is the third Photowalk hosted by Interactions. Past Photowalks were carried out in 2015 and 2018.
How to Vote
Public voting is open from Jan. 13 through Jan. 27. To cast your vote, visit the official voting webpage and select your favorite photograph.
The Global Physics Photowalk 2025 attracted more than 500 submissions from more than 100 photographers representing diverse backgrounds and styles.
For more information about the competition, to view the photographs, or to cast your vote, please visit the Global Physics Photowalk 2025 website at Interactions.org.
Follow the Photowalk on social media with #PhysPics25.
