[News-releases] TRIUMF and DESY Take Home Top Prizes from the First Global Particle-Physics Photowalk

[Tim Meyer]

News Release | For Immediate Release | October 14, 2010

TRIUMF AND DESY TAKE HOME TOP PRIZES FROM THE FIRST GLOBAL PARTICLE-PHYSICS
PHOTOWALK

 (Vancouver, BC) - A sunburst image of a particle detector at Germany's DESY
laboratory and a black-and-white photograph of a nuclear-physics experiment
at TRIUMF in Canada have won the top prizes in the first-ever Global
Particle Physics Photowalk.

More than 100 of the top photographs from the photowalk, including the six
winners of the jury and "people's choice" competitions, are now viewable
online at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactions_photos/collections/.   

"As scientists, we're excited by our work and our laboratory environment.
What was amazing about this event was the opportunity to share that
experience with the people who support and benefit from the research we do,"
said Nigel S. Lockyer, director of TRIUMF. "Bringing it full circle to see
what caught their eye and got their attention was the real treat.  Art and
science have serious parallels; we all struggle to look at things in new
ways to generate new insights about what is really going on in our world." 

On August 7, more than 200 photographers had the opportunity to present a
new view of physics by going behind the scenes at five laboratories in Asia,
Europe and North America as part of the Particle Physics Photowalk.
Following the event, photographers submitted thousands of images to local
competitions at the participating laboratories, which included DESY, TRIUMF,
CERN in Switzerland, Fermilab in Illinois, and KEK in Japan. Each laboratory
selected their local winners, and forwarded the top three to compete in two
global competitions organized by the laboratories in the spirit of friendly
competition.

More than 1,300 photography enthusiasts voted online to name the people's
choice winners. Hans-Peter Hildebrant's photograph of a wire chamber at DESY
garnered the most votes, followed closely by Tony Reynes' image of an
accelerator operator on shift at Fermilab, and Matthias Teschke's photograph
of the HERA accelerator tunnel at DESY.

"I am an amateur nature photographer and the subject-technology-was a great
challenge," said Hans-Peter Hildebrandt, a lead technician at a German
manufacturer. "You don't get to see things like accelerators in tunnels very
often, and I am really glad I took part in the photowalk. I spent a long
time on the winning photo, took a series of 24 shots from different angles,
positions and with different camera settings."

A panel of international judges also selected three winners. The
judges-photographers Stanley Greenberg from the US and Simon Norfolk from
the UK, and accelerator physics student and sculptor Meghan McAteer-gave the
top prize to Mikey Enriquez' photograph of the 8Pi experiment at TRIUMF,
second prize to Hildebrant's wire-chamber photograph, and third prize to the
"kissing lips", a photograph of a pair of quadrupole magnets at the DESY
laboratory taken by Heiko Roemisch.

"I saw a link for the Particle Physics Photowalk on someone's Facebook wall,
and the chance to walk around and see an actual particle physics lab up and
close and with the sole purpose of taking photographs of it was hard not to
take," said 22-year-old Enriquez, a recent graduate of the photo-imaging
program at Vancouver's Langara College.

The winning photographs will be featured in the December issues of the
particle physics publications the CERN Courier (www.cerncourier.com) and
symmetry (www.symmetrymag.org). All five participating laboratories will
also feature the global winners and their local photowalk selections in
temporary exhibits in 2011.

"I think I can speak for all of DESY when I say that we are overwhelmed and
proud that a total of three pictures taken during the photowalk at DESY won
a total of four places," said Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY
Board of Directors. "We always knew that our workplace is attractive, but
it's nice to see proof of this in both the jury and the public vote. We're
also especially proud that the world's particle physics labs took to the
suggestion of a global photowalk so enthusiastically and that all labs had
such an amazing harvest of fascinating pictures." 

The Particle Physics Photowalk was organized by the InterAction
collaboration, whose members represent particle physics laboratories in
Asia, North America and Europe. 

Visit www.interactions.org/photowalk for more information about the Global
Particle Physics Photowalk.


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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Planning & Communications
TRIUMF
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Vancouver, BC  V6T 2A3  CANADA
Tel: 604-222-7674
Fax: 604-222-3791
Cell: 650-464-8955
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca
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