FRAME Awards 2025
Image: Daipu Architects, Streaming Light Exhibition Hall, Caijiapo, Xi'an's Huyi District, China, 2024. Courtesy of Daipu Architects
ARCHITECTURE
Streaming Light Exhibition Hall
Winner of the month for April
Daipu Architects has been named April’s FRAME Awards winner for their innovative project, Streaming Light Exhibition Hall. Located in the Chinese village of Caijiapo in Xi'an's Huyi District, the project transformed an abandoned kitchen and warehouse into an exhibition space as part of the Mangba Art Festival. The architects addressed practical challenges – including seasonal flooding – while introducing innovative design elements that respond to the local vernacular. ‘The overall form expression is both contemporary and integrated with the surrounding environment,’ noted April juror Wenke Lin.
Prix Art Éco-Conception 2025
Image: Lionel Sabatté, Chevauchée, chrysalide, 2022. Oil, fragments of silk, dust from the Château de Chambord on canvas, 180 x 195 cm. © Gregory Copitet
ART
Prix Art Éco-Conception
Created by Art of Change 21, an association founded and chaired by Alice Audouin, in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, the Prix Art Éco-Conception is awarded each year to 12 contemporary artists working to reduce their environmental impact. This year's winners are: Dana-Fiona Armour, Younès Ben Slimane, Tiphaine Calmettes, Collectif Grapain, Alice Guittard, Chloé Jeanne, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Gohar Martirosyan, Lou Motin, Lionel Sabatté, Ugo Schiavi and Hugo Servanin. This 3rd edition is under the patronage of the artist Otobong Nkanga, a major figure of ecological commitment in contemporary art.
About the Prix Art Éco-Conception
Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
Image: Zélie Hallosserie, Omer in the Steenvoorde shelter, The Game, 2024. © Zélie Hallosserie
PHOTOGRAPHY
Zélie Hallosserie
Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
French photographer Zélie Hallosserie has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize. The prize was launched by American artist Annie Leibovitz in partnership with New York–based photographer and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman. Zélie’s work captures the personal journeys and stories of migrants in Calais, an often perilous final junction before reaching the United Kingdom. Her photograph, Omer in the Steenvoorde shelter (2024) will be exhibited at this year’s Photo London, alongside the shortlisted photographers, from 15 to 18 May 2025.
About the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025
Image: Federico Estol, from Héroes del Brillo [Shine Heroes]. © Federico Estol
PHOTOGRAPHY
Federico Estol
KG＋SELECT Award
At the International Photography Festival KYOTOGRAPHIE, in Kyoto, Japan, the 2025 KG＋SELECT Award recognised Federico Estol's Héroes del Brillo [Shine Heroes] project. Thousands of shoe-shiners seek out new clients each day on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia’s capital, and the El Alto suburbs. These people are of all ages, with the youngest still in school or higher education. What characterizes them is their use of ski masks to avoid being recognized by those around them. In their neighborhoods, no one knows that they work as shoe shiners. At school, they hide this fact, and even their own family members believe they are going to a different job when they head down to the center of the city from El Alto. The mask is their strongest identity, making them invisible while at the same time uniting them.
2025–26 Rome Prize
Image: Liz Glynn, exhibition view, The Futility of Conquest, Vielmetter Los Angeles. © Brica Wilcox
ART
The American Academy in Rome has announced the 35 scholars who have won the 2025–26 Rome Prize. Six artists have been recognised and will be given residencies of five to ten months collaborating across creative fields in the city of Rome. The winners include performance artist Andrea Fraser in recognition of her pioneering work in institutional critique and sculptor Liz Glynn for her exploration of cultural memory and contested histories.
PhMuseum 2025 Photography Grant
Image: Hashem Shakeri, from Staring Into The Abyss. © Hashem Shakeri
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hashem Shakeri
Main Prize
The PhMuseum 2025 Photography Grant Main Prize has been awarded to Iranian photographer Hashem Shakeri for his project Staring Into The Abyss. Judge Bruno Ceschel motivates the choice on behalf of the jury: "With remarkable commitment and personal risk, Hashem Shakeri spent months travelling independently across Afghanistan to create a body of work that refuses the clichés of documentary and photojournalism. Instead, he offers an intimate, poetic, and visually arresting portrait of the communities most affected by the Taliban’s return—women, ethnic and religious minorities, and LGBTQIA individuals. By drawing on a rich range of photographic languages and emotional registers, his images move fluidly between the surreal and the symbolic, the tender and the haunting."
