Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award
Image: Foster + Partners, Millau Viaduct, Millau, France.
ARCHITECTURE
Norman Foster
Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award
The Créateurs Design Awards announced Lord Norman Foster as the recipient of the 2025 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating a body of work that has redefined contemporary urban landscapes. Lord Foster’s illustrious career spans over five decades, marked by iconic structures that blend innovation with functionality. Notable projects include The Gherkin in London, which has become a symbol of modern architecture and the Reichstag in Berlin, where his sensitive restoration revitalized a historic landmark while integrating cutting-edge technology. His firm, Foster + Partners, is known for its commitment to sustainability, having pioneered numerous projects that prioritize environmental responsibility, such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, a vision for a zero-carbon urban environment.
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Prix d’honneur
Image: Sophie Calle, Prenez soin de vous. Comptable, Sylvie Roch, 2007. Color photograph, text, frame. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paris, © ADAGP, Paris, Banque d’images de l’ADAGP
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sophie Calle
Prix d’honneur
The first Prix d’honneur de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is awarded to Sophie Calle for her exceptional contribution to photography. The prize will be awarded every two years. Since the late 1970s, the artist has developed a prolific, multiform and joyfully subversive body of work in which photography plays a key role. Her projects are generally based on paradoxical situations. She readily confronts the real with the imaginary, automatism with control, presence with absence, the public with the private, play with death. Through the stories she likes to tell, she succeeds in creating epiphanies where, suddenly, opposites cease to be perceived as contradictory.
About the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson – Prix d’honneur
Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Image: © Ana Elisa Sotelo & Sadith Silvano, Portraits of the Multiverse series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ana Elisa Sotelo
Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Ana Elisa Sotelo has been awarded the first edition of the Fondation Louis Roederer's Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize, for her work on nature and human interaction with the natural world. Following a life-altering spinal fracture in 2016, the artist discovered the healing power of traditional Amazonian medicine and documented the links between natural and spiritual health. Her winning series, Portraits of the Multiverse, features an interplay between photography and embroidery. Ana Elisa Sotelo collaborated with Peruvian artisan Sadith Silvano to create a dialogue between the worlds of the visible and the invisible, underlining the profound link between the Amazon, its inhabitants and their ancestral art.
About the Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Prix Virginia 2024
Image: Alexander Bay © Jo Ractliffe; When We Return Home © Jennifer Sakai
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jo Ractliffe
Jennifer Sakai
Prix Virginia
For the first time, the Prix Virginia, a photography award reserved exclusively for women, has been awarded to two women photographers, South African Jo Ractliffe and American-Japanese Jennifer Sakai. In October 2022, Jo Ractliffe traveled the land of her childhood, taking the national highway along South Africa's Atlantic coast from Cape Town to Namaqualand and the Namibian border. To photograph these spaces, she confronted the idea of ‘landscape’. Her winning series, Landscaping, seeks to reconsider what makes a landscape in photography. Jennifer Sakai's award-winning series, When We Return Home, is based on her Japanese family's displacement to the Poston concentration camp in Arizona after the Second World War.
Lewis Baltz Research Fund 2024
Image: The Otolith Group, MASCON - A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy, 2024.
© The Otolith Group 2024
ART
The Otolith Group
Lewis Baltz Research Fund
The Otolith Group, formed by British artists, curators and theorists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, has been awarded the Lewis Baltz Research Fund. This research grant initiated by LE BAL, Paris, will be used to finance the duo's book project combining images and texts, entitled MASCON. The idea of ‘mascon’, a contraction of ‘massive concentration of Black experiential energy’, was theorized by American researcher Stephen Henderson in 1973. The Otolith Group has reactivated and renewed it, with the aim of "exploring the gestures, geometries and grammars that make up the forms, forces and fictions" of films by Senegalese directors Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty.
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Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Latitudes
Image: © François-Xavier Gbré
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François-Xavier Gbré
Latitudes
The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès creates Latitudes, a new international program to support contemporary photography, in partnership with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paris) and the International Center of Photography (New York). Franco-Ivorian photographer François-Xavier Gbré is the winner of this first edition. His project consists of a photographic journey in Côte d'Ivoire along the rails, sometimes abandoned, of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou line. Between a sensitive and documentary approach, this series is thought to bear witness to the political and intimate histories of this region.
About the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès – Latitudes
Regards du Grand Paris
Image: Chevelure Luxuriante au vent © Alain Nzuzi POLO - 2024
PHOTOGRAPHY
Regards du Grand Paris
Six new photographers and their projects have been announced following the 9th call for entries for the Regards du Grand Paris national photography commission. Scheduled to run until 2026, this annual award is the result of a collaboration between Ateliers Médicis and Cnap, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture. The 6 winning artists are Sebastián Bruno, Juliette Fréchuret, Lucie Hodiesne Darras, Jade Joannès, Alain Nzuzi Polo - Belle garçon and Mickael Vis. They expressed their creativity through projects centered on a variety of themes, each time recalling the urban and social dimensions at the heart of the lives of the inhabitants of the Grand Paris.
Planches Contact 2024
Image: © Cloé Harent, Bruit rose, Planches Contact 2024.
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Cloé Harent
Prix du Jury Tremplin Jeunes Talents
The Planches Contact 2024 jury, chaired by photographer Sarah Moon, awarded the Prix du Jury Tremplin Jeunes Talents 2024 to Cloé Harent, captivated by the power and fragility of the biodiversity found on the foreshore of Normandy. Her work particularly caught the attention of the jury for its spontaneity and creativity, allowing us to contemplate the micro landscapes and natural creations of the living world.
About the Prix du Jury Tremplin Jeunes Talents
RA Dorfman Prize 2024
Image: Roof Repair, Livyj Bereh, Ukraine 2022/23. Courtesy of Livyj Bereh
ARCHITECTURE
Livyj Bereh
Royal Academy Dorfman Prize
The Royal Academy Dorfman Prize 2024 has been awarded to Livyj Bereh. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Livyj Bereh has been re-constructing the roofs of damaged homes and schools, returning to architectural first-principles to restore communities' sense of self. They are based in Kyiv and initially began their work on the left bank of the Dnipro River, from which they derive their name (Лівий берег / Left bank). Since May 2022, they have restored over three hundred and roofs in Charkiv, Černihiv & Kyiv regions. In addition to providing assistance on the ground in Ukraine, Livyj Bereh continue to highlight the impact of the war through exhibition projects around the world, documenting culture and architecture that is at risk due to the conflict.
