Winners from The Hunt NYC 2025

Earlier this month, we hosted another installment of our verifiable photo scavenger hunt, as part of the Content Authenticity Summit 2025 in New York City. The exciting twist of this hunt was that instead of just being limited to using Proofmode Capture, any C2PA-verifiable capture app or device could be used.

Over the course of the three days, we received variety of excellent submission. In the end, we had three winners who verifiably documented the most items in the most visually compelling way - Mario Pena, Jonathan Venguer, and David Boily!

You can see a collage of their photos and learn more about these amazing players below.

As always, playing The Hunt is a learning experience, for both our team and the players. In this case, with the variety of devices and workflows we opened it up to, it was a great test case for understanding interoperability issues, edge cases, usability challenges, and new opportunities, as well. Below you will find links to the different ways we inspected and verified the media, followed by a live video session of our verification process.

Mario Pena of Safe Creative Captured on Nikon, signed with Proofmode: Verify on ProofCheck

Jonathan Venguer of SUM PICTURES: Captured with Leica, imported into Lightroom: Verify on ContentCredentials.org Manhattanhenge and Bridge

David Boily of La Presse Captured and signed with Proofmode: Verify Waterfront, Wildlife, Coffee, Transport

You can also watch a verification walkthrough video of the Proofmode team going through the verification process for these winners: