CREATIVE VISION category, The Pascal Lecocq Award of Excellence.
🏆 Creative Vision – Pascal Lecocq Award of Excellence
The winners of the Pascal Lecocq Award of Excellence 2025, part of the Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year, have been announced on World Ocean Day.
The Creative Vision category celebrates imagination, symbolism, and artistic mastery in underwater imagery. For the 10th consecutive year, the Pascal Lecocq Award of Excellence honors works that bear witness to the beauty of our Blue World — and warn us, through art, of our impact on it.
👑 Winner: Pietro Cremone
CONGRATULATIONS Pietro Cremone – Winner of Creative Vision category OGPicoty 2025.
The Creative Vision Award has been designed to emphasize both Creation —artistic skill and an imaginative mind— and Vision, giving the artwork a dual purpose: to bear witness to the beauty of our Blue World and to artistically warn us about our impact on it.
With that in mind, the most powerful image this year is CV-027. More than a thousand words, it speaks through nature’s horror, saying everything.
If her cry cannot reach our ears, we cannot remain blind to its message. Let’s hope it touches our hearts.
🥈 Runner-Up: Eser Pasa
CONGRATULATIONS Eser Pasa – Runner Up of Creative Vision category OGPicoty 2025
Celebrating Pure Beauty and Artistic Mastery
While the concerns for our planet remain, let us also take a moment to honor pure artistic brilliance—those who capture and share the marvels of the underwater world through their unique vision.
This award recognizes not just the beauty of the ocean but the artistic eye that preserves and conveys its magic to the world.
🏅 Honorable Mentions
CONGRATULATIONS Sunbong Jung– Honorable Mention of Creative Vision category OGPicoty 2025
In a field I am less familiar with—digital imaging, gaming, and visual effects (VFX)—where the criteria differ from those of classical painting or photography, it is the message of the image, along with its uniquely creative composition, that compels me to honor this submission.
The irreversibility of our planet’s destruction is alarming, and this artwork expresses it with both power and impact.
CONGRATULATIONS Martin Colognoli – Honorable Mention of Creative Vision category OGPicoty 2025
The Ocean’s Veil—A Tribute to Symbiosis
A delicate and original sea net for a mermaid, symbolizing the harmony between life above and below the water’s surface.
This artwork beautifully captures the essence of symbiosis, weaving together nature’s fluid elegance and the artist’s vision to remind us of the invisible ties that unite all living beings in the great blue expanse.
🌐 Discover All Winners
Explore the full list of winners and categories on the Vote fo Ocean Geographic cover
🏷️ Related Archives
This year’s Pascal Lecocq Award Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year 2025 highlights the power of surreal underwater storytelling.
Revisit past editions and winners via the Ocean Geographic tag archive — a decade of creativity and ocean advocacy.
