Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2025
Image: Lucille Boitelle © Philippe Garcia – Maison Pierre Frey
Sacha Parent for OROS, Amas large shelf, natural stained oak, raw rye straw. © Pierre Girardin
Cèucle, 2025 Autumn edition.
CRAFTS | DESIGN | FASHION
Lucille Boitelle
Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi
Cèucle
Prix Rélation
At the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris 2025, the Prix Rélation was presented in three categories - crafts, design and fashion - acting as a talent spotlight, rewarding young talents whose projects are promising, creative and have prospects for development. Ornamental painter Lucille Boitelle won in the crafts category. Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi won in the design category. And the fashion brand Cèucle, founded by Auriane Blandin-Gall, was awarded in the fashion category.
About the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris
Frieze Seoul 2025
Image: Shinro Ohtake, Scrapbook #68 (2024.2.7 – 2016.5.25) © Shinro Ohtake
ART
Take Ninagawa
Frieze Stand Prize
Take Ninagawa (Tokyo) has been awarded the Frieze Stand Prize, supported by Noroo at Frieze Seoul 2025. A jury of international curators selected the gallery for its group presentation of pioneering female artists, including Ryoko Aoki, Yoko Daihara, Shinro Ohtake, Aki Sasamoto, Gozo Yoshimasu and Stella Zhong. The gallery's winning presentation focuses on rising female artists of diverse generations and cultural backgrounds that convert daily objects and scenes into new points of inquiry.
Visa pour l’image 2025
Image: Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, via Visa pour l’image.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ivor Prickett
Visa d'or News
The most prestigious prize at the Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival, the Visa d'or News, was awarded in Perpignan to Ivor Prickett ofThe New York Times for his work on the war in Sudan. Receving the award for his report on the Battle of Khartoum, which opposed the Sudanese army to the paramilitary FSR militia between 2023 and 2025, the Irish photographer's work shows the daily life of the civil war, with its share of material destruction and the suffering of a population trying to survive in particularly difficult conditions.
Image: Brent Stirton/Getty Images, Virunga National Park. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 100 Years of Resilience, via Visa pour l’image.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Brent Stirton
Visa d'or Magazine
The Visa d'or Magazine was awarded to Brent Stirton, a South African photographer working for Getty Images, for his report on the Virunga National Park, the oldest and largest in Africa, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The park is home to a number of armed groups backed by Rwanda and Uganda, some of whom are plundering the country's resources. In his photos, we see an elephant beheaded for its ivory or a gorilla massacred in the jungle, as well as rangers patrolling to combat the illegal production of charcoal or arresting poachers.
2025 World Design Medal
Image: Dieter Rams Modular World exhibition view, Vitra Design Museum.
DESIGN
Dieter Rams
World Design Medal
The World Design Organisation has named Dieter Rams the recipient of the 2025 World Design Medal, recognising his profound impact on industrial design. From his 34-year tenure as Head of Design at Braun to his projects with Vitsoe, the furniture company he co-founded in 1959, Dieter Rams is widely regarded as one of the most influential design voices of the 20th century, having set new standards for clarity, functionality and timelessness in design. His Ten Principles of Good Design have guided generations of designers, influencing everything from household products to digital interfaces, and continue to serve as a touchstone for design that is both human-centred and enduring.
InCadaqués Festival 2025
Image: Valentina Sinis, Were Afghan Women to Unveil Their Tales series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Valentina Sinis
Open Call Winner
Valentina Sinis is the Open Call Winner of the InCadaqués Photo Festival 2025 which will be holding its 9th edition in Catalonia, Spain, from 9 to 26 October 2025. Valentina Sinis' project Were Afghan Women to Unveil Their Tales gives a close and respectful look into Afghan women’s lives, showing what they go through in a difficult reality. Through images that go beyond simple appearances, this project aims to capture not just the challenges Afghan women face but also their hopes, strength, and the layers of each woman’s story.
Image: Lieh Sugai, Kaikou series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lieh Sugai
Premi Fotografia Femenina
The Premi Fotografia Femenina Fisheye x InCadaqués was awarded to Lieh Sugai for her Kaikou series, composed of chimigrams, a process that combines painting and photography. In all her projects, Lieh Sugai focuses her practice on the memories shared between people and places. She is interested in how these memories change over time, and in the events that transform us. Originally from Japan and now living in the United States, she also evokes the weight of cultural change.
London Design Festival 2025
Image: Lit Lines, Palazzo Durini, Milan, 2011. Courtesy of Michael Anastassiades
DESIGN
Michael Anastassiades OBE
London Design Medal
Cypriot-born British designer Michael Anastassiades OBE has won the London Design Medal for his consistent contributions to the field. Originally trained as a civil engineer, London-based Anastassiades later pursued a master’s degree in industrial design at the Royal College of Art. After founding his studio in 1994, he launched his eponymous brand in 2007 and is known for his wide range of works across lighting, products and furniture designs, along with spatial design projects.
The Armory Show 2025
Image: Joel Gaitan presented by The Pit, Los Angeles, The Armory Show 2025.
ART
Joel Gaitan
SAUER Art Prize
Joel Gaitan presented by The Pit, Los Angeles, has been awarded the SAUER Art Prize at The Armory Show 2025. Joel Gaitan’s work celebrates life, death, and the afterlife while exploring self-identity, sexuality and ancestral lineage through traditional Nicaraguan and Central American clay techniques that preserve erased cultures in a colonized world.
The Pommery Prize was awarded to Joe Minter, whose work transforms common labor tools into sacred objects, exemplifying a process of reclaiming and honoring the spirit of discarded materials.
