Beginning today, photographers are invited to apply for a spot to capture exclusive and behind-the-scenes photographs of locations at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Professional and amateur photographers will be able to explore and take pictures of scientific experiments and equipment in five designated research areas that are not accessible to the public.
The 2025 Global Physics Photowalk is a photo competition that begins with a local contest at each of the participating laboratories. As part of this, Fermilab will offer a day this summer for 25 photographers to tour the lab and take photos, which can then be submitted to the local contest. Fermilab judges will submit three of the local winners to the worldwide Global Physics Photowalk competition. The Interactions Collaboration will announce a shortlist of global finalists in September, and the winners will be selected by a jury and public vote.
Credit: Ryan Postel, Fermilab
This year’s Global Physics Photowalk has 16 participating particle physics laboratories from three continents. The winning photos will be featured in a future issue of the CERN Courier and in Symmetry magazine.
“Enabling photographers to capture the research and technologies at Fermilab is another way for people from all over the world to see the amazing high-energy particle physics we do,” said Fermilab’s interim director, Young-Kee Kim. “The connection between art and science is profound and can be universally understood in any language.”
Photos from previous years can be viewed on the Interactions website. Photographers of all skill levels are welcome and do not need to be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Space is limited for the Fermilab Photowalk day scheduled for Saturday, July 26, 2025, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Participants must submit the online application by June 1, 2025.
The 2025 Global Photowalk is organized by the Interactions Collaboration, an international group of science communicators dedicated to telling stories about particle physics research and achievements.
You can follow the Photowalk on social media using #PhysPics25.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
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