A huge milestone in the fifth edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest - the first selection of images are revealed as the eight-week countdown to the Winner Award Ceremony commences!
With exactly eight weeks to go until the category winners and overall winner are announced at the Winner Award Ceremony, we’re excited to be able to announce the first selection of semi-finalists from the Innovation by Sony category!

Check out the full list of Innovation by Sony semi-finalists!

Fans of Red Bull Illume will immediately recognize the high contrast, maximum impact style of Clark Fyans from his finalist and semi-finalist images from previous editions of the Image Quest. More recently, Clark was back in Alaska armed with his Sony a7SII, a6000 and a ‘huge down jacket’ on a segment of The Fourth Phase’, and the results are astounding!

We asked Clark some questions on the trip and show some of his best shots!

A semi-finalist of the Image Quest 2013 and finalist in 2016, Ben Thouard returned to our attention with his submissions to the Best of Instagram by SanDisk category back in February and April. Like Ben, we always want to go beneath the surface to discover more about the images that are submitted – little did we know that ‘SURFACE’ would be the name of this project!

See more images from Ben's selection!