2023 Hasselblad Award
Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Kitchen Table Series, 1990. © Carrie Mae Weems
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Carrie Mae Weems
Hasselblad Award
The Hasselblad Foundation announced Carrie Mae Weems as the 2023 Hasselblad Award winner, making her the first African American woman to claim the prestigious honor. Over nearly four decades, Weems has explored the subjectivity of personal and global history through a racial and feminist lens. Her oeuvre spans multimedia installation, video and performance, but she’s most celebrated for her photography, which has a sparse composition that belie complex ruminations on familial and romantic entanglements. The Kitchen Table Series (1990), considered a seminal body of contemporary photography, stars Weems herself and is set at a kitchen table. As the tableaux is rearranged with a cast of lovers, friends and family, she’s both the protagonist and perpetual observer, "a guide into circumstances seldom seen," according to Weems.
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2023
Image: Rosângela Rennó, Untitled (drama queen family), Nuptials series, mixed media, 2017.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Gabriela Carrera.
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Rosângela Rennó
Prix Women In Motion
Kering and Les Rencontres d'Arles awarded the Prix Women In Motion 2023 to the Brazilian photographer Rosângela Rennó. Born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, she currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in "the way the system tries to erase or manipulate links with the past", the photographer appropriates and transforms archival photographic material into an art installation or a book of photography. Her work is a detailed exploration of time, of forgetting, and the social and psychological changes that affect memory.
Image: Hannah Darabi, Untitled, digital inkjet printing, Soleil of Persian Square series, 2022.
Courtesy of the artist.
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Hannah Darabi
Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles
The Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles was awarded to Hannah Darabi. Her series Soleil of Persian Square is a research on the visual identity of the lifestyle of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles. Hannah Darabi tries to give a face to this fictional city called Tehrangeles. She creates links between ordinary landscapes of Los Angeles and Orange County, bearing traces of this Iranian diaspora and portraits of its inhabitants, objects from popular culture, such as cassettes, song lyrics, screenshots of music videos from the 1980s and 1990s...
Image: Isadora Romero, Eye, [ceremonial stone that was presumably used to grind corn by the first inhabitants of the territory Teotitlán del Valle], Then we tame the fire series. Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
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Isadora Romero
Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer
The Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer was awarded to Isadora Romero. When Isadora Romero discovers that her ancestors were seed keepers, she wonders if the need to tell stories about agrobiodiversity is in her genes. Over the past twenty years, 75% of the world's plant varieties have disappeared. The artist's research asks the following question: how does the loss of ancestral memory and indigenous knowledge – a consequence of colonization, forced displacement and racism – lead to the disappearance of seeds at an alarming rate?
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents 2023
Image: Iris Millot, Mont Lion series, 2022.
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Iris Millot
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents
Iris Millot has been awarded the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents for her Mont Lion series. Iris Millot’s long-matured images are valuable for the precious encounter and conversation they reveal with Hélène, her great-aunt, who has been cultivating isolated family farm land lost in the middle of a forest, for 40 years. Combining still life with portraiture, and wide-angle shots with large close-ups, the young photographer discreetly illustrates life choices and their resulting traces.
About the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023
Image: Samuel Fosso Autoportrait, from the Series 70’s Lifestyle, 1976 © Samuel Fosso
Courtesy of the artist and JM Patras, Paris
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Samuel Fosso
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Samuel Fosso received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023. The artist was shortlisted for his exhibition ‘Samuel Fosso’ at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (10 November 2021 – 13 March 2022). Since the mid-1970s, Samuel Fosso (b. 1962, Kumba, Cameroon) has dedicated his artistic practice to self-portraits and performative photography. Playing the role of key historical figures and social archetypes in front of the camera, Fosso embodies a powerful way of existing in the world, and a vivid demonstration of photography’s role in the construction of myths.
About the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Prix Picto 2023
Image: Série « Distanciation sociale » © Annabelle Foucher / Premier Prix – Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2023
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Annabelle Foucher
Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode
Annabelle Foucher was awarded the Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode. Where the images want to sublimate, Annabelle Foucher wants above all to reveal; show the purity of the most organic things, the voluptuousness of everyday life. In an environment far from artifice, she does justice to everyday accessories, transforming them into artefacts. For her, beauty is first ordinary; she knows that the singularity of each thing can burst, as long as we first want to look at it attentively.
Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability 2023
Image: M'hammed Kilito, Before It’s Gone. © M'hammed Kilito
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M’Hammed Kilito
Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability
The Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability was awarded to M’Hammed Kilito for his series entitled Before It’s Gone. The theme of the 2023 edition ‘Flow’, beyond its original definition, represents circulation and exchange, as well as the constant dynamic between nature and people. M’Hammed Kilito is a documentary photographer and a National Geographic explorer based in Casablanca, Morocco. His series Before It’s Gone is an ongoing long-term project that documents life in oases with a focus on the complex and multidimensional issues of oasis degradation in Morocco and its impact on their inhabitants.
About the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability
Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères 2022
Image: Rala Choi, Korea.
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Rala Choi
Grand Prix du jury Photographie
Prix du public de la ville de Hyères
Rala Choi won the Grand Prix du jury Photographie presided by visual artist Pierre Debusschere and the Prix du public de la ville de Hyères. The South Korean photographer was awarded for his shots in saturated colors whose models seem frozen out of time. His pictures, like paintings, represent people from behind, vulnerable and poetic, inspired by the work of Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Moreau or Edward Hopper.
About the Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères
