SNSF Scientific Image Competition
SNSF Scientific Image Competition

Though research aims at a better understanding of the world around us, the images that result from it often seem unreal, and create an astonishingly varied visual language: a laboratory tool is transformed into a monolith; an artificial wave oscillates between the real and the virtual; a scientist appears to vanish in a puff of smoke; and an experiment becomes an artistic performance. The Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography is exhibiting the prize-winning photographs and video from the first Scientific Image Competition of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), selected by the judges from among almost five hundred images. (Pascal Hufschmid and Daniel Saraga)