Prix Roger Pic 2021
Image: Alexis Vettoretti, L’hôtel de la dernière chance, Paris.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alexis Vettoretti
Prix Roger Pic 2021
Alexis Vettoretti won the Prix Roger Pic with his photographic documentary "L'hôtel de la dernière chance". The Prix Roger Pic was created in 1993, by the Société civile des auteurs multimédia (Scam) to award every year a photographic portfolio with a humanist perspective. Documentary photographer Alexis Vettoretti takes the audience to meet women and men and tells life stories that are part of a social temporality. He is interested in the working-class condition that crosses time and spaces. Alexis Vettoretti went for a long period of time to a long term hotel in a working-class neighbourhood in Paris. A place where men and women live in a few square meters for a 500€ rent. Their names are Joël, Rolland, Pascal and they live in a room with no kitchen, no toilets and a corridor shower. Alexis Vettoretti wanted to show this "grey area", a place in our society where it is difficult to escape once you are in.
NewImages Festival 2021
Image: Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot, We are at Home, 2021.
MOVING IMAGE
Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot
Masque d'Or
Filmmakers Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot's multi-user experience "We Are at Home" won the Masque d'Or at the NewImages Festival for the best immersive work. Organized by the Forum des images in Paris, the NewImages Festival celebrates the digital creation and virtual worlds multiplicity, with an international program composed with the groundbreaking immersive works and experiences. What does an executioner think about when he returns home after a hard day's work? Inspired by Carl Sandburg's famous poem, The Hangman at Home (1922), "We Are at Home" is an immersive virtual reality experience exploring themes of participation, self-awareness and others.
BFC/British GQ Designer Menswear Fund 2021
Image: Ahluwalia, Spring 2022 Menswear. © Ahluwalia
FASHION
Ahluwalia
BFC/British GQ Designer Menswear Fund
British fashion designer Ahluwalia won the 2021 BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund. The announcement came on the final day of London Fashion Week, the same day that Ahluwalia showed her SS22 collection. She is celebrated for her multiculturally infused collections, which touch on both tailoring and streetwear and have a strong focus on sustainability, with many pieces created from found garments and dead stock fabrics. Caroline Rush, CEO of the BFC, said "Priya proved to be the strongest candidate showing incredible creativity along with a business strategy that embodies the future of British fashion, with environmental and socially positive practices at the core of the brand." Ahluwalia also received the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design earlier this year and a collaboration between her and Mulberry will be released later this year.
About the BFC/British GQ Designer Menswear Fund
Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2021
Image: Grégoire Eloy, La Faille, Balmuccia, Italie, 2015.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Grégoire Eloy
Prix Niépce Gens d’images
Grégoire Eloy, french photographer based in Paris and member of Tendance Floue agency, won the Prix Niépce Gens d’images created in 1955. The photographer spent the first ten years of his career traveling through Eastern European countries and Central Asia. In 2010, he started to collaborate with the scientific community to produce a series of monographs. Then, in 2015, he began to take an interest in ecological issues during residencies in natural environments.
About the Prix Niépce Gens d'image
Talents Contemporains 2021
Image: Sidorenko-Dutca, Apa, 2020.
ARTS
Bianca Bondi, Elvia Teotski, EthnoGraphic, Sidorenko-Dutca
Talents Contemporains
The François Schneider Foundation announced the winners of the 10th edition of "Talents Contemporains", its international contemporary art competition. The jury chose the South African artist Bianca Bondi for her sculpture The Wishing Well II, the French artist Elvia Teotski for her installation Spleen microbien 2.0, the collective EthnoGraphic for their installation InventaRios and the duo Sidorenko-Dutca for their photographic serie Apa.
