Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
Image: Timber Market, Accra (Ghana), February 16, 2023.
© Muntaka Chasant for the Fondation Carmignac
PHOTOGRAPHY
Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant
and Bénédicte Kurzen
Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
Anas Aremeyaw Anas, anti-corruption investigative journalist and activist, and photojournalists Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen received the Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme, dedicated to Ghana and the ecological and human challenges associated with the transboundary flow of electronic waste. They spent six months documenting the ambiguous and complex ecosystem of e-waste, which is both a crucial economic opportunity for thousands of people in Ghana and has a considerable human and environmental impact. Together, combining a national and international approach, the team studied the ramifications of e-waste trafficking between Europe and Ghana, revealing the opacity of this globalized cycle.
About the Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
Prix du design de l'Institut du monde arabe
Image: Studio KO, Yves Saint Laurent Museum, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 2017. © photo dan glasser
DESIGN
Studio KO
Grand Prix
The Prix du design de l'Institut du monde arabe has announced the winners of its first edition. The jurors, led by India Mahdavi, established their reflection around two fundamental values of the Arab world, tradition and transmission. Studio KO is the winner of the Grand Prix. Since meeting at the Beaux-Arts school of Architecture in Paris and the creation of their studio in 2000, Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty have claimed a global and immersive approach to their profession, from architecture to interior design and furniture design. At the heart of their approach is uncompromising freedom and the need to create a unique narrative, most in tune with the truth of the context.
Image: MULA, Petit h souk designed for Hermès Dubai Mall, November 2022, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
DESIGN
Abdalla Almulla
Prix Talent émergent
Abdalla Almulla is the winner of the Prix Talent émergent for his projet Petit h souk designed for Hermès Dubai Mall. Petit h is where creations are made in reverse. It doesn’t work based on a preconceived idea, but on materials that other Hermès métiers have not used. By combining them in different ways, artisans, artists and designers create unique objects. The Petit h souk is an architecturally designed scenography of a souk setting that takes the user on a journey to experience Petit h’s creations. Emirati architect, Abdalla Almulla, founded his Dubai based design practice MULA in 2018.
About the Prix du design de l'Institut du monde arabe
Art-o-rama 2023
Image: Public Gallery solo booth of new works by Nils Alix-Tabeling, Art-o-rama, Marseille, 2023.
ART
Nils Alix-Tabeling
Prix Pébéo
Art-o-rama, the contemporary art fair, which took place from August 31 to September 3, 2023 in Marseille, awarded several prizes. The prix Pébéo 2023 has been awarded to the French artist Nils Alix-Tabeling from Public Gallery, whose free-standing sculptures and paintings in oil and gouache explore ecology, body politics, shamanism and fantasy. Alix-Tabeling’s multimedia practice takes folklore, witchcraft, and the occult as a point of departure. Traditional depictions of mythological or historical tales are reconfigured in the artist’s sculptural installations, whose research-based practice presents an alternative history that foregrounds queer bodies and marginalised figures, and celebrates frivolity, perversion, pleasure, and taboo.
Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography 2023
Image: Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2015. Courtesy of the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joanna Piotrowska
Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography
Joanna Piotrowska has been selected as the recipient of the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023. In making their decision, the jurors responded to the artist’s ability to evoke the uncanniness of our relationships to our bodies, to architecture, and to one another. With a distinctive and recognizable visual language, Piotrowska’s images consistently make the experience of photography strange – an accomplishment that is all the more worthwhile for her masterful use of the medium. The jurors additionally highlighted the generative tension produced between Piotrowska’s black-and-white images, and her inventive installation techniques which, in engaging with color, consistently animate the experience of photography in new and unexpected compositions.
About the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography
FRAME Awards
Image: WeWantMore, Mush Room bar, for HIX London, 2022.
DESIGN
Mush Room bar by WeWantMore
Winner of the Month for August
The Mush Room bar, an experimental installation in mycelium designed by Belgian design studio WeWantMore for last year’s edition of HIX London, was recognized as the August FRAME Awards winning project. Referring to the edition’s theme, ‘Great things will grow’, WeWantMore designed a bar that would literally grow towards the event while at the same time being an example of what one of these ‘great things’ might be: Mycelium as a design material.
