For the fourth 12 months in a row, the BnF (the Nationwide Library, not removed from our inns) has organised an exhibition displaying the very best images of the 12 months, i.e. the winners of 4 of a very powerful photograph prize competitions – the Niépce prize, the Nadar prize, the Bourse du Expertise and the Digicam Clara prize.
And entrance is free!
Right here’s an amazing alternative to see the winners of 4 of France’s greatest photograph prizes introduced collectively in a single house, at no cost! The exhibition has a handy guide a rough French title – La photographie à tout prix. Une année de prix photographiques à la BnF (which features a play on phrases too sophisticated to clarify right here) and ensures you’ll see some completely splendid pictures.
Anne-Lise Broyer is that this 12 months’s winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d’Picture, which was based in 1955. You could find her web site right here and her Instagram web page right here.
Gens d’Picture additionally organise the Prix Nadar which have fun a photograph guide annually. In 2024 the winner was Chambre 207 by Jean-Michel André (152 pages, 39€ right here at your native Amazon) .
You’ll discover Jean-Michel André’s web site right here, and his Instagram web page right here.
The ‘Bourse du Expertise’ chosen by the Picto Basis gave out three prime prizes this 12 months: Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Hassan Kurbanbaev and Guillaume Holzer. You may see extra of their work within the exhibition.
And the Prix Digicam Clara, created in 2012, is reserved for movie photographers. The most recent winner is Laura Pannack for her Youth with out age collection, a photographic exploration of beings, locations and landscapes encountered in Romania.
Laura Pannack’s web site might be discovered right here and her Instagram web page is right here.
To see extra work from these gifted photographers, head to the BnF earlier than the thirtieth March 2025!
The exhibition La photographie à tout prix. Une année de prix photographiques à la BnF is on the BnF (right here) from tenth December 2024 – thirtieth March 2025
Open every single day besides public holidays – Mondays from 2-8pm, Tuesday-Saturday from 9am-8pm and Sundays from 1-7pm
Admission: free!
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