SURF unveils 2025 Photowalk winners, qualifiers for global competition
Three photographers were chosen by a jury for their excellence in capturing images of America’s Underground Lab. Their work will now advance to the global competition.
The winners of the 2025 SURF Photowalk include three images captured by photographers Adam Tomjack, Josue R. Laboy, and Riley Singer.
These photos qualify for entry into the Interactions Global Physics Photowalk where they will be judged against images taken at physics laboratories around the world, including submissions from across the United States, Canada, Japan, and Europe.
The top winners in the global competition will be featured in the CERN Courier and Symmetry.
- Adam Tomjack’s photo, titled Ex Profundo, Scientia, captures a person shining a headlamp on the wall of the recently excavated SURF expansion drift. This drift is the first phase of SURF’s plan to meet the global need for more underground research space that can house future generations of science.
- Josue R. Laboy’s photo, titled From Beam to Nucleus, explores one part of the CASPAR particle accelerator at SURF. CASPAR recreates the conditions inside stars and helps researchers study the processes by which elements are forged.
- Riley Singer’s photo, titled One man, Many hands, shows a person inside one of the drifts used to access the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). A complex set of pipes and cables line the ceiling and walls as the space is made ready to host this massive world-class experiment.
“It’s incredibly special when we get to invite creative people into the underground lab. I am thrilled that SURF will be well-represented in the global competition with these three incredible images. I want to thank my colleagues at SURF, Fermilab and the selection committee for making this Photowalk a huge success,” said Matthew Kapust, the multimedia design lead at SURF who organized this competition.
These three photographers advanced from the group of eight that were chosen following the first phase of the photo competition at SURF’s annual science festival, Neutrino Day.
The winners of the global Photowalk competition, being judged this fall, will be announced on Interactions.org.
