Winner of the Yves Rocher Foundation Photo Award – Visa pour l’Image 2025, German photographer Ingmar Björn Nolting will present his long-term project Anthology of Climate Change at the 2026 La Gacilly Photo Festival. A powerful documentary body of work, unveiled in its entirety for the first time.
Winner of the Yves Rocher Foundation Photo Award – Visa pour l’Image 2025, German photographer Ingmar Björn Nolting will present his long-term project Anthology of Climate Change at the 2026 La Gacilly Photo Festival. A powerful documentary body of work, unveiled in its entirety for the first time.
For over ten years, the Yves Rocher Foundation has supported committed photojournalists who examine our relationship with the living world and today’s environmental upheavals. In partnership with Visa pour l’Image, a major international photojournalism event, this €8,000 award annually recognizes a distinctive perspective on the ecological transformations of our time.
In 2025, the jury chose to honor the work of Ingmar Björn Nolting, whose images explore the rifts, contradictions, and hopes running through Germany as it faces the climate crisis.
“With the support of the Yves Rocher Foundation, I wish to add a final chapter to my work on the climate crisis in Germany, focused on resilience and hope,”, he photographer says.
his ambition runs through his entire series: to portray a society in transition, caught between ecological imperatives, economic realities, and deeply ingrained habits.
Photographing the contradictions of change
Photographing the contradictions of change Germany has some of Europe’s most ambitious climate targets: carbon neutrality by 2045, a coal phase-out by 2038, an acceleration of renewable energies, and a massive expansion of electric mobility. But behind political announcements lies a more complex reality. While the urgency of climate change is widely acknowledged, resistance emerges as soon as transformations affect daily life, purchasing power, or lifestyles. It is precisely within this zone of tension that Ingmar Björn Nolting situates his work. His gaze lingers on places, people, infrastructures, and landscapes marked by change. He photographs ordinary gestures, industrial scars, signs of adaptation, and sometimes quiet forms of resilience. Image by image, he composes a sensitive chronicle of contemporary Germany, far from simplistic narratives or binary visions. His work opens up a vital space for dialogue on how our societies confront, or sidestep, the challenges of climate change.
An exhibition to contemplate the future
An exhibition to think about the future Presented at the Galerie Jardin du Relais Postal during the 23rd edition of the La Gacilly Photo Festival, the exhibition Anthology of Climate Change invites the public to look beyond numbers and slogans. Through this photographic immersion, Ingmar Björn Nolting questions our collective capacity to transform our ways of living, while letting a central question emerge: what might a society reconciled with its environment look like? Join us from June 1 to October 4, 2026, at the Galerie Jardin du Relais Postal, the space dedicated to the Yves Rocher Foundation during the 23rd edition of the La Gacilly Photo Festival.
