Fine Art photographer and visual artist Izaskun Valmaseda wins the Digital Art category at Click Masters 2025 with her image The Inner Thread.
2025
Click Masters · UK
____________________________________________________Click Masters 2025 | Digital Art Winner: The Inner Thread
Izaskun Valmaseda, a Photographer & Visual Artist based in Madrid, Spain, has been named the winner of the Digital Artistry category at Click Masters 2025, a respected photography print competition.
Hosted by Click Live Lite Expo, this year’s competition attracted over 300 entries across a wide range of photographic genres. From those, just 80 finalists were shortlisted for live judging, which took place at The Ridgeway Centre in Milton Keynes last week.
The Click Masters 2025 winners were chosen by a panel of internationally acclaimed judges, who commended the exceptionally high standard of work submitted this year.
‘The images in the competition were of a particularly high standard, and all the finalists should be proud of their achievement in reaching the final. Winning the category is worthy of a huge celebration as the work submitted was of an international standard. It exemplifies what the Click Masters competition is all about.’
— Click Masters 2025 Judge.
“To have my work acknowledged in this way means so much — it’s not just an honour, but also a reminder of why I create. It gives me renewed confidence and energy to keep following my creative instincts wherever they lead. I truly appreciate the trust the judges have shown — it encourages me to keep delving into the invisible threads that connect image, emotion, and meaning.”
— Izaskun Valmaseda
The Click Masters 2025 competition forms part of the Click Live Lite Expo, an event designed to inspire and educate photographers with live demos, talks, and trade exhibitions from leading industry brands.
About Click Masters 2025
Click Masters is an annual print competition celebrating technical excellence and creative artistry in photography. Open to photographers across multiple genres, it provides an opportunity to gain national recognition and showcase work to leading professionals in the field.
This year’s competition was proudly supported by an outstanding group of sponsors and partners, including: Fujifilm, The Society of Photographers, Loxley Colour, One Vision Imaging, Graphi Studio, Light Blue Software, MAC Group, Camera Centre UK, Click Backdrops, PermaJet, and Evoto.
Highlights from the Jury
| Two of the hardest colors to print are your reds and your greens. And the amount of red. I know it’s pink and magenta in this image, but the amount of red that’s been printed and put down on this paper and still held detail in the gamut is really good. I like the concept. The storytelling is good. The title titles can be quite detrimental, but I think it adds massively to this image.
| From a distance, you see, you want to make your mind up. A bit dark on the left hand side, a bit light on the right hand side, and then you go closer. And I would encourage anybody, everybody, to have a look at this print close up, because the amount of detail in the sock is just insane. It’s ridiculous. You can touch it. I mean, you can feel it. You can feel the softness of the material. It’s ridiculous. And then you look at the threads on the inside and they are alive. Like they’re really, really standing out. And it’s only it’s one of these images where it sort of grows on you a little bit. You have to appreciate it for a little bit longer. You can’t just glance it and look away. You’ve got to look at it and study it, even to the point where underneath the hole there’s a little thread that sticks out and you think… Ahh, there’s a little thread there by somebody’s nail as they were putting it on… But that makes it real. I love the abstractness. I love the digital artistry and the detail.
| The framing’s nice, the concept’s nice, the colours are exquisite.
| Very well ejecuted, impactful, simple. It’s superb.
| It’s really nicely done. It’s really nicely composed.
Click Masters 2025 Judging Panel
I’m more interested in holding attention than in calling for it
In a world of sensory overload, I advocate for a kind of photography that reclaims the slow time of contemplation and the evocative power of the symbolic.
