Eyes on Talents x Paris Good Fashion
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability 2025
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Clara Chichin
Flama
Jeff Rich
Just Willis
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability
This year the Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability, created by Eyes on Talents and Paris Good Fashion, and supported by Printemps, recognized four artists whose work pushes the boundaries of sustainability and visual narrative. They are: Clara Chichin (France), Flama (Venezuela), Jeff Rich (United States) and Just Willis (United States). These four artists present distinct, resonant visions that interrogate ecological urgency, social identity and fashion's evolving narratives in a climate-conscious world.
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Hasselblad Award 2025
Image: Sophie Ristelhueber, Fait #20, 1992. © Sophie Ristelhueber/Adagp, Paris 2025
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Sophie Ristelhueber
Hasselblad Award
Sophie Ristelhueber is the winner of the Hasselblad Award 2025. Sophie Ristelhueber was born in 1949 in Paris, where she still lives and works. Places marked by conflict often make up the core of her work. Avoiding the sensational, she instead captures an emotional intensity in the silent, enduring traces of human presence and activity. A recurring theme in her artistic practice is humanity’s perpetual cycle of creation and destruction, followed by renewal. The photographs in Sophie Ristelhueber’s series are meticulously selected fragments of a larger narrative, where the viewer is invited to create the story.
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025
Image: Nan Goldin, Stendhal Syndrome, 2024, still. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian.
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Nan Goldin
Prix Women In Motion
American artist, Nan Goldin, has been awarded the Prix Women In Motion. Through her work, Nan Goldin has recast the representation of women outside patriarchal norms, but also of overlooked communities. Her intimate and raw portraits highlight issues like domestic violence, sexuality and life on the fringes of society. Exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles, her workStendhal Syndrome takes the form of a slide show juxtaposing images of classical, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with portraits of Nan Goldin's friends and lovers. The structure of the work is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, depicting the artist's friends and family as mythological figures such as Galatea, Orpheus and Hermaphrodite.
Image: Diana Markosian, The Cut Out, Father series, 2014-2024. Courtesy of the artist.
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Diana Markosian
Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles
Diana Markosian has been awarded the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles for her work Father. Born in Moscow, she was seven years old in 1996 when her mother woke her up in the middle of the night. She told her that the family was going on a trip. The family boarded a flight to the United States. Markosian never said goodbye to her father. Father is an intimate portrait of the complex journey of a father and daughter trying to rebuild the emotional foundation they once shared. Through documentary photographs, archival documents and vernacular images, Diana Markosian explores her father’s absence, their reconciliation and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement.
Image: Octavio Aguilar, Kontoy (Kontoy: the king of the mixes), 2020.
Courtesy of the artist / Parallel Oaxaca.
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Octavio Aguilar
Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer
Octavio Aguilar has been awarded the Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer for his work Tajëëw its Kontoy, in which mythology offers an opportunity to reconstruct memories of Santiago Zacatepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), his birthplace and current residence. Tajëëw and Kontoy are the names of the ancestors of the Ayuuk community, whose origins have been passed down via orally from one generation to the next. Aurea Romero, his grandmother, was an important guide in helping him understand his cultural genealogy. Through conversations with her and other inhabitants in the region, Octavio Aguilar has been able to reconstruct a narrative that resists processes of symbolic colonisation.
Image: Raphaëlle Peria, Lever les voiles sur le passé [Lifting the veils on the past], 2025.
Courtesy of the artist / BMW ART MAKERS.
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Raphaëlle Peria and Fanny Robin
BMW ART MAKERS
Artist Raphaëlle Peria and curator Fanny Robin are the winning duo of the BMW ART MAKERS programme. They were chosen by the jury for their project Traversée du fragment manquant [Crossing the missing fragment], presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo. Traversée du fragment manquant addresses the decline of the plane trees that line the Canal du Midi, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which have been affected since 2006 by a disease caused by a microscopic fungus. Combining personal archives and current photographs of the canal's surroundings, Raphaëlle Peria adresses the transformation of an endangered ecosystem, illustrating its evolution in order to preserve its memory.
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents 2025
Image: How do you feel © Joel Quayson
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Joel Quayson
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents
Joel Quayson has been awarded the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents 2025 for his short film How do you feel. A visual artist and photographer, he has been a student at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague since 2023. Accompanied by an insistent, recurring voice-over that continually asks him about his state of mind, Joel Quayson’s images vibrate with true sincerity and palpable personal courage. How do you feel is the illustration of a personal quest, of a journey taken before our eyes by a man for whom images are more than a medium, they are a real reason to live. By talking to us about himself with such sincere lucidity, Joel Quayson manages to touch on a universal theme.
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Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2025
Image: Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Family group photo on a Christmas day, South Africa, Johannesburg, Thokoza, 2017. © Lindokuhle Sobekwa
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Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Johannesburg-based artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa is the 29th recipient of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his book I carry Her photo with Me. Deeply personal, the project began when Sobekwa found a family portrait with his older sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. When the siblings were seven and thirteen, she chased him and he was hit by a car and badly injured. She disappeared hours later, only returning a decade later, ill. By this time Sobekwa had become a photographer. He tried to take her portrait, but stopped when she reacted angrily. Ziyanda died soon after. Through this scrapbook-like publication, Sobekwa explores the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history.
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Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts
en photographie 2025
Image: Le geste, 2000. © Sarah Moon © Adagp, Paris, 2025
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Sarah Moon
Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en photographie
The Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en photographie was awarded to Sarah Moon. With a career spanning more than fifty years, Sarah Moon is distinguished for her work in perpetual metamorphosis always carried by a singular signature: a dark and dreamlike atmosphere, often crossed by the recurring motif of childhood. Since her beginnings in fashion and advertising, Sarah Moon has worked to make a photograph ‘a one-second fiction’. Each of her images is a story that she does not tell but suggests by containing it in the suspense of a gesture or the enigma of a look: a whole possible world, still to come, that she has been able to perceive and of which she gives us a glimpse. (Anne Maurel)
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Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Image: © Ana Elisa Sotelo & Sadith Silvano, Portraits of the Multiverse series.
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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.
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Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2025
Image: Symbiose © Arash Khaksari
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Arash Khaksari
Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode
Arash Khaksari is the winner of the Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2025 for his series Symbiose. Born in Teheran, Iran, he grew up in a multicultural environment. In Symbiose, Arash Khaksari explores the interaction between humans, nature and the ephemeral through the unique creations of Dasha Tsapenko. Her pieces, made entirely from living, biodegradable materials, redefine fashion as an organism in perpetual evolution. Each image captures the fusion between the garment and its environment, playing with light, textures and the temporality of materials. The series creates a dialogue between the human and the living, a reflection on fashion as an organic extension of the natural world.
