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Whether professional, enthusiast, or occasional, photographers find an endless source of inspiration at ºÚÁÏÉçapp. On the worksite or inside the construction buildings, people at work, tools, components, light, reflections, and shadow come together to create a unique environment that appeals to anyone carrying a camera—or even a simple smartphone. The selection of photographs we are offering today as a “Year in Images” recap comes from two sources: the regular documentation of ºÚÁÏÉçapp activities by members of the Communication team, and contributions of the recently established ºÚÁÏÉçapp Photo Group.Regardless of their origin, all of the images share the same intent: to convey—through graphic composition or a snapped portrait—the wonderment experienced when walking across the ºÚÁÏÉçapp worksite or inside the assembly and plant buildings.  Attached to its rigging, vacuum vessel module #6 has just rotated 90 degrees and is heading towards its final destination in the tokamak assembly pit. This picture was shot from the height of the overhead crane. (Photo Kevin Ballant) At ºÚÁÏÉçapp, a photographer’s eye can be attracted by many different “objects” or scenes. The handling of the massive components is the most obvious, but details like an array of manifolds or an alignment of bolts, a reflection in a pool of water, an expression on the face of a worker can be equally inspiring. In the spectacular ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council Room, a mere meeting is an invitation to press the shutter button.Photography captures what words have difficulty expressing. Not that words are limited, but in describing the ºÚÁÏÉçapp environment, typical vocabulary risks being repetitive: the lifting of a vacuum vessel module, like the upending of a toroidal field coil, is always “awe-inspiring”; a busbar arrangement in the depths of the Tokamak Building or an alley lined with electrical equipment is evocative, inevitably, of an “alien world”…Although they come with descriptive captions, we hope that the photographs we have selected for our 2025 “Year in Images” stand by themselves and communicate the feeling that inspired them.Walk virtually through the most recent exposition of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Photo Group "Through the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Lens."