The Photography Award

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the laureates of the 2024 photography award

The three laureates of the 2024 Photography Award are:

Felipe Romero Beltrán (Colombia), with the project Páramo : Familia
Priyardarshini Ravichandran (India), with the project CUSP
Julie Gough (Australia), with the project The Search

A special mention has been awarded to the Beninese artist Senami Donoumassou.

Download the press release announcing the 2024 winners.

Simultaneously a museum, a cultural center, and a place for research and teaching, the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac holds a photography collection composed of more than 710 000 ancient and contemporary photographic pieces. The photography collections covers the whole geographic area represented by the museum, as well as the entire historical field of the medium, from 1842 to today.

In 2022, the program gets a new skin and becomes the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Photography Award. The endowment is revalued up to 30 000 € for each project, for an annual selection of 3 laureates processed by an international jury, following a large call for applications.

Since it was launch in 2008, the program of Residences at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac has provided support for contemporary photographic creation. Each year, the museum funds the works of three laureates, selected on the basis of an original project, in coherence with their personal aesthetic path. It also supports the final production of a selection of images of these works towards their entry into the museum's collection. Focused on a demanding photography practice worldwide exercised and representative of one of the four continents represented in the museum's collections, the program is not limited to documentary practice and is open to extended forms of image production.

Since 2008, this support has revealed many talents and open the national collections to the whole world and its current creation. We can mention over the years the works of artists such as Sammy Baloji, Hugo Aveta, Che Onejoon and Lek Kiatsirikajorn (2012), Guy Tillim (2015), José Luis Cuevas (2017) and very recently Fatoumata Diabaté and Emilio de Azevedo (2020). In 14 years, the Photography Residencies have allowed 38 photographic series, or the equivalent of 555 prints, to integrate the national collections. This major collection constitutes baseline for the international contemporary creation, in such diverse aspects as ecology (137 Years, Zhao Renhui – Singapour), the migratory crisis (Cartographies of Escape, Luis Carlos Tovar – Colombia), the post-colonial memory (Imaginary Trip II, Gosette Lubondo – DRC), the deconstruction of the patriarchal model (La Etapa Bruja, Liza Ambrossio – Mexico) as well as the role of photography in the questioning of contemporary identity (Resident and Visitors, Brook Andrew – Australia).

Laureates

2022

Gayatri Ganju (India), Someone who's here and there, residency in Tamil Nadu (South India)
Seif Kousmate (Morocco), Waha, residency in Tinghir, Zagora and Errachidia oases in Morocco
Collective Ritual Inhabitual (Chili), Oro Verde, residency in the city of Cheran, Michoacan State, Mexico

2020

Liza Ambrossio (Mexico), The Witch Stage, residency in Mexico, Spain and France
Emilio de Azevedo (Brazil), Maréchal Rondon - Un inventaire du Brésil, residency in Brazil and in France
Fatoumata Diabaté (Mali), Nimissa, residency in Mali

2019

Pablo Lopez Luz (Mexico), Romana Tropical, residency in Cuba
Abdoulaye Barry (Chad), Un si grand Lac, residency in Chad
Prasiit Sthapit (Nepal), In search of the legacy of the man with a thick mustache, residency in Nepal

2018

Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia), Chère Pipi, residency in French Guiana
Marco Garro (Peru), The gold we inherited, the gold of our dreams, residency in Peru
Aun Raza (Pakistan), For the Love of Lahore, residency in Pakistan

2017

José Luis Cuevas (Mexico), Kenzaburo, this is also a personal matter, residency in Japan
Gosette Lubondo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Imaginary Trip II, residency in Congo
Luis Carlos Tovar (Colombia), Cartographies of Escape, residency in several countries at the edge of the European frontier

2016

Karen Miranda Rivadeneira (Ecuador), In the mouth of the jaguar everyone is a singing hummingbird, residency in Ecuador
Tatewaki Nio (Brazil/Japan), Neo-andina, residency in Bolivia
Zhao Renhui (Singapore), Camping and Tramping in Malaya, residency in Singapore, in Malaysia and in Indonesia

2015

Ishola Akpo (Ivory Coast), Les mariés de notre époque, residency in Benin and Nigeria
Brook Andrew (Australia), Resident and Visitor, residency in France and Australia
Guy Tillim (South Africa), African Cities, residency in Ghana, Kenya and in Zimbabwe

2014

Mehrdad Naraghi (Iran), Japanese Gardens, residency in Japan
Hyung-geun Park (South Korea), Tumen Project, residency in south Korea, China and Russia
Sameer Tawde (Inde), Miracle Robots, residency in India

2013

Pedro David (Brazil), 360 Metros Quadrados, residency in Brazil
Daniela Edburg (Mexico), Wadmal – The sample project Iceland, residency in Iceland
Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Les dévoreuses d’âmes, residency in Burkina Faso

2012

Hugo Aveta (Argentina), Construire la mémoire, residency in South America
Lek Kiatsirikajorn (Thailand), Lost in Paradise, residency in Thailand
Che Onejoon (South Korea), A Monumental Tour, residency in Africa

2011

Joao Castilho (Brazil), Vade retro, residency in Brazil
Andrew Esiebo (Nigeria), Pride, residency in West Africa
Hak Kim (Cambodia), Someone, residency in Kep, Cambodia

2010

Roberto Caceres (Peru), Chifa, Chinese culture in Peru, residency in Peru
Fiona Pardington (New-Zealand), Whakaahua : The pressure of Sunlight falling, residency in Paris
Cinthya Soto (Costa Rica), Paysage (re)trouvé : à la recherche du paradis perdu, residency in South America

2009

Pablo Bartholomew (India), Indians in France, residency in France
Wayne Liu (Taiwan), This is Belgrade, residency in Serbia

2008

Sammy Baloji (Congo Democratic Republic), Allers et retours, residency in France
Lourdes Grobet (Mexico), Equilibrium and Resistance, residency in Alaska
Wu Qi (China), La Chine Catholique rurale, residency in China