incredible photos rewarded with the Evident 2024 prize

The winners of the Evident Image of the Year 2024 prize have just been announced, and they highlight a fascinating and often overlooked world: that of scientific images under a microscope. This competition celebrates the beauty and complexity of the microscopic world, rewarding the best photos from researchers around the world. For those who don’t know it, this award was born in 2022 after Olympus created Evident, an independent company dedicated to scientific solutions. Since then, the competition has attracted a lot of curiosity, thanks to the quality of the images which reveal details invisible to the naked eye.
Yue Rong Tan

A Cosmos button wins first prize

This year, the overall first prize went to Igor Siwanowicz, a US-based researcher, for his photo of a Cosmos Orange bud. Captured with a confocal microscope, this bud reveals the pollen grains in the center of the anther, in a striking contrast of yellows, blues and reds. Siwanowicz says he found the flower by chance while on a walk, illustrating how natural beauty can surprise even the most experienced scientists. His reward? An Olympus SZX7 stereoscopic microscope, to extend your research.

Igor Siwanowicz
Igor Siwanowicz

Other winners by categories and regions

In the Materials Science category, it was an image by the German Gerd Günther that caught the jury’s attention. His photo, a knot between a human hair and a horse’s hair, reveals an almost golden metallic effect. Meticulous work that reveals astonishing textures on a microscopic scale.

Gerd Günther
Gerd Günther

The regional awards did not lack originality either. For the Americas, Marko Pende surprised with a ladybug under UV light, while Till Stephan conquered Europe, the Middle East and Africa with an image of pluripotent heart cells. On the Asia-Pacific side, Daniel Han won an award for an artistic arrangement of diatoms in a circle, an image that would be at home in an art gallery.

Marko Pende
Marko Pende
Till Stephan
Till Stephan
Daniel Han
Daniel Han

Some honorable mentions

Among the honorable mentions, we find images that push the limits of the scientific imagination a little further. For example, a composition of butterfly scales forming the silhouette of this insect, signed Jianguo Mao, or even photos of a fluorescent crab and a neon-tinted beetle. So many images which, beyond their aesthetics, reveal astonishing biological characteristics.

Jianguo Mao
Jianguo Mao
Hannah Somers
Hannah Somers

Initially limited to Europe, the Evident Image of the Year competition has established itself as a global celebration of microscopy. The winning images are a reminder of how rich and complex the microscopic world isby making visible what the eye cannot grasp.

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