Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2024

Image: Zarina Bhimji, In Shadows and Disturbances, 2007. The photograph featured in Bhimji's 2007 Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Liverpool. © Zarina Bhimji/Courtesy the artist and DACS, London

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Zarina Bhimji

Roswitha Haftmann Prize

The Roswitha Haftmann Foundation recognised Ugandan-born, London-based artist Zarina Bhimji, known for her poetic films that explore notions of place through architecture and landscape. "Zarina Bhimji has the ability, through her implicitly empathetic and aesthetically fascinating photographs and films, to involve an audience emotionally and encourage it to reflect," says Thomas Wagner, member of the foundation's board, adding "Zarina Bhimji’s work, which is more topical than ever today, is an unmistakeable blend of life, art, politics and history in which no element compromises any other. The gently flowing imagery of her films lays bare the poison that lurks within both romanticized landscapes and national history books."

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InCadaqués 2024

Image: Sasha Mongin, Le mourant qui ne mourrait pas [The dying man who would not die] series.

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Sasha Mongin

Premi Fotografia Femenina

From 3 to 13 October 2024, the 8th edition of the international photography festival InCadaqués will feature 25 exhibitions on the shores of the Mediterranean bay. Among them, the work of Sasha Mongin, winner of the Premi Fotografia Femenina Fisheye x InCadaqués. In her prize-winning work Le mourant qui ne mourrait pas [The dying man who would not die], Sasha Mongin weaves a personal narrative. In the images, a mist settles in, as if to blur the very concept of death, when, as a child, doctors gave her father only a few months to live following an HIV infection. Far from seeking to portray simple sadness, Sasha Mongin imbues the series with her own artistic identity, bringing out an invincible love in this omnipresent doubt.

Image: Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon, Motel 42 series.

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Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon

Premi InCadaqués

Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon is the winner of the Premi InCadaqués for her Motel 42 series, a series of self-portraits taken in the United States on black and white film. Each photo was printed and hand-coloured with oil paint. Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon accompanied her musician companion on tour and discovered a world she had only seen in the cinema: American motels. The photographer chose to document the 42 rooms in which they slept, morning after morning, seeking to show what she found in these rooms and what she was able to create afterwards.

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Rafto Prize 2024

Image: Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Payasos [Clowns] series of drawings created in the maximum-security prison of Guanajay, Artemisa, Cuba in 2021.

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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

Rafto Prize

The Rafto Prize 2024 was awarded to Cuban artist and human rights activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, for his fearless opposition to authoritarianism through art. Currently in prison, Otero Alcántara has been arrested countless times for his activism. His artistic expression is an unflinching critique of the restrictions on freedom of expression. As a leader of the San Isidro Movement, a collective of artists, musicians, journalists and academics, he has been at the forefront of a movement seeking change since its start in 2018.

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Whitney Biennial 2024

Image: Nikita Gale, TEMPO RUBATO (STOLEN TIME), 2023-2024. Exhibition view: Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Nikita Gale

Bucksbaum Award

Los Angeles-based artist Nikita Gale, known for installations that explore the human connection to material culture, is the recipient of the 2024 Bucksbaum Award, presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to an artist exhibiting in the Whitney Biennial. Gale was selected from 71 artists and collectives featured in this year's exhibition, Even Better Than the Real Thing. Her contribution TEMPO RUBATO (STOLEN TIME) comprises a modified piano programmed to play songs in silence, exploring the space between a score and its performance. The work seeks to examine how ‘labour, performance, authorship, legibility, and sensing are beholden to their technological contexts’.

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AWAW Environmental Art Grants 2024

Image: Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, Green Badagry, 2013. Outdoor Installation, secondhand clothes, variable dimension.

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AWAW Environmental Art Grants

The grantmaking organisation Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have awarded grants to 19 women artists for projects focusing on environmental advocacy in countries such as Ghana, Colombia and the United States. Several winning projects explore Indigenous themes, including Dara Friedman’s Sky Woman Women Project. Other projects focus on the entanglement of resource extraction and environmental destruction, like Loren Waters and Rebecca Jim’s ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ [Meet Me at the Creek]. Many other projects deal with textile pollution, such as Victoria-Idongesit Udondian’s ‘Okrika’ Reclaimed! project, developed in Accra, Ghana, which addresses the impact of textile waste in Africa.

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2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund

Image: Anh Nguyen, Offering Table, 2024, The Kitchen God Series.

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Creator Labs Photo Fund

Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture announced the winners of the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund, an initiative providing financial support and visibility to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers. Inaugurated in 2021, the Creator Labs Photo Fund is now in its third season, continuing its mission of supporting artists and shape critical dialogues about photography today.

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