Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2024
Image: Mohlokomedi wa Tora, 2018, Scene 2 [detail] © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist
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Lebohang Kganye
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990, South Africa) is the 2024 winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for the exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home at Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2023). ‘Haufi nyana?’ meaning ‘too close?’ in Sesotho, one of South Africa's official languages, reflects the dialogue between the viewer and the artist. It touches on notions of home as heritage and identity, as well as physical and mental spaces. Lebohang Kganye’s photographic projects cross personal and collective histories. She draws from shared oral narratives and fictional texts, exploring South Africa’s layered history before, during and after apartheid and colonialism.
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Les Rencontres d'Arles 2024
Image: Tshepiso Mazibuko, Thapelo, Thokoza, 2017-2018, Ho tshepa ntshepedi ya bontshepe [To believe in something that will never happen] series. Courtesy of the artist
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Tshepiso Mazibuko
Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles
The Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles was awarded to Tshepiso Mazibuko for her exhibition Ho tshepa ntshepedi ya bontshepe [To believe in something that will never happen]. A look at South Africa's post-apartheid born-free generation, which contains the trauma and after-effects of segregation. Tshepiso Mazibuko was born in 1995 in the township of Thokoza, some thirty kilometres south-east of Johannesburg, where she lives and works. Through portraits of young people photographed in their daily lives in Thokoza, she takes an inside look at her community and paints an intimate portrait.
Image: François Bellabas, MOTORSTUDIES_DTB, 2016. Courtesy of the artist / ADAPG, Paris
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François Bellabas
Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer
The Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer was awarded to François Bellabas for his project An electronic legacy. The project reflects a research approach in which artificial intelligence is now considered in its genealogy, through different generations of tools. The image, considered as data, has become the keystone of a system in which humans move indistinctly between real and virtual spaces. The exhibition is based around a single motif: fire.
Image: Ishiuchi Miyako, Mother’s #35, Mother’s series. Courtesy of the artist / The Third Gallery Aya
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Ishiuchi Miyako
Prix Women In Motion
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was awarded the Prix Women In Motion. The theme of the representation of women permeates Miyako's work in a subtle and powerful way. Her photographs celebrate imperfections, scars and ageing. By presenting intimate scenes, Ishiuchi Miyako invites viewers to question their own perceptions of femininity, the feminine and the place of women. Among her most notable works are her 2005 series Mother's, in which she photographed objects inherited from her deceased mother and her internationally acclaimed 2007 series ひろしま/hiroshima, in which she photographed objects that belonged to victims of the atomic bomb (hibakusha).
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents 2024
Image: Chia Huang, Silence is speaking.
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Chia Huang
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents
The Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents this year went to Chia Huang for her Silence is speaking photographic series. A student from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Chia Huang traveled to Taitung, a small town in Taiwan, and photographed two autistic brothers unable to communicate through formal language and living with their sick father. "These poignant, sensitive and painful images manage to decipher their noiseless communication and their body language, while documenting the silent sounds within them," said Dior in a statement.
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Hasselblad Award 2024
Image: Ingrid Pollard, Pastoral Interlude, 1987, Victoria and Albert Museum Collection. © ADAGP, Paris, 2022
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Ingrid Pollard
Hasselblad Award
Ingrid Pollard, a leading British contemporary photographer and artist, is the winner of the 2024 Hasselblad Award. She was born in 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana and grew up in London. She currently lives and works in Northumberland, Northeast England. Pollard’s work interrogates and explores aspects of race and colonialism, often based on her own experiences and research. She is particularly interested in how these issues are manifested in both urban spaces and landscapes. Central to her work is a fundamental interest in photography, its technical aspects, materiality and potentials, as well as its historical use in the exercise of control and power.
Prix Pictet
Image: Gauri Gill, Izmat, Barmer, 1999-ongoing, Notes from the Desert series.
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Gauri Gill
Prix Pictet
Indian photographer Gauri Gill is the winner of the tenth cycle of the Prix Pictet, on the theme of Human. Gill’s work emphasises her belief in working with and through community, in what she calls ‘active listening’. For more than two decades, she has been engaged closely with marginalised communities in the desert of western Rajasthan and for the last decade with Indigenous artists in Maharashtra. Commenting on her winning series Notes from the Desert, she said: "On my many visits to rural Rajasthan, I have witnessed a complex reality I knew nothing about as a city dweller. To live poor and landless in the desert amounts to an inescapable reliance on oneself, on each other, and on nature. These fragments of shared experience now inhabit a large photographic archive called Notes from the Desert, encompassing different narratives and varied forms of image making."
James Barnor Prize 2023
Image: Mário Macilau, Untitled, Circle of Memories series, 2020.
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Mário Macilau
James Barnor Prize
A leading figure in the new generation of Mozambican artists, Mário Macilau is the winner of the second edition of the James Barnor Prize, dedicated to the East African region. He received the award for his three photographic series: Circle of Memories, Faith and Growing on Darkness. Mário Macilau adopts a profoundly humanist approach to photography, in the wake of Mozambique's photographic tradition. His work focuses on the social and economic realities of his country, around the themes of identity, memory, injustice and the environment.
BMW ART MAKERS
Image: Mustapha Azeroual. Gradiant 5, Antarctique, PONANT, 2024. Courtesy of the artist / BMW ART MAKERS.
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Mustapha Azeroual and Marjolaine Lévy
BMW ART MAKERS
Artist Mustapha Azeroual and curator Marjolaine Lévy are the winning duo of the third edition of BMW ART MAKERS. They were chosen by the jury for their project The Green Ray, currently on show at Les Rencontres d’Arles and later at Paris Photo. The Green Ray addresses the poetics of light and makes the invisible visible. Mustapha Azeroual experimented with photographing the sun in the open sea, a setting he had never explored before. The series seeks to demonstrate that another form of abstraction is possible, evoking the questions and issues of our society, as the colour of the sky fluctuates in specific response to human activity.
Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2024
Image: Nataal © Yama Ndiaye
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Yama Ndiaye
Grand Prix de la Photographie de Mode
Yama Ndiaye is a 24-year-old Franco-Senegalese photographer born in Paris to a painter father and a visual artist mother. Having grown up in her parents' studio and with a dual cultural heritage between Dakar and Toulouse, she felt the need to express her own vision. She favours a poetic aesthetic that combines staging, field photography, the reappropriation of archive images and the exploration of mixed printing techniques. Her work lies on the edge between fashion photography and the visual arts. In particular, she devotes herself to long-term personal projects exploring the themes of diasporic representation, identity, family and memory.
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Festival international de mode, de photographie
et d’accessoires – Hyères 2023
Image: Thaddé Comar,
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Thaddé Comar
Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L
Paris and Lausanne based photographer Thaddé Comar won the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L. The 7L bookshop was founded in 1999 by Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, acquired by CHANEL in 2021, 7L celebrates its founder’s unconditional love for books and photography. Thaddé Comar's winning documentary series How was your dream?was realized during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong and deals with new forms of demonstration and insurrection in our post-contemporary era dominated by seamless control societies.
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