Pink Lady international competition: selected photos

Graduate Yvon Monet has sent us a news item concerning his professional activity.

Participating in an international competition with two of his photos selected.

In these cellars, bottles are piled up by the thousands, by the millions... Photographing in these places is both an honor and a privilege. These images and so many others, taken in the silver age, are still in circulation today, as part of the CIVC collection.

Photo 01 was taken in the Veuve Clicquot Champagne cellars with only ambient lighting, precisely to preserve the atmosphere. Hanging down from the rock face at the far end are vine roots that have broken through the topsoil and chalk and continue to thrive in the void. The shot was intentionally taken very close to the rock to show the superb fracture or, rather, the trace of the tools of those who dug.

Photo 02 was taken in the Champagne de Castellane cellars, also in ambient light and for the same reason. The bottles were placed "on point" for long aging. So long, in fact, that the alcohol vapours evaporating during the wine-making process, and floating in the cellar air, feed the moulds growing on the bottles' glass.