For ten years now the LUMA Foundation has been backing the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and the Contemporary and Historical Book Awards. This year brings a new era in the collaboration between the Foundation and the Rencontres: with a subsidy of 180,000 € for the programming, production and organisation of the Discovery Award exhibition and prize-giving ceremony, LUMA is reaffirming its commitment to creative photography and its practitioners.
The Discovery Award goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be. Every year a panel of directors and teachers from major photography schools is chosen to nominate candidates for the award. Each candidate is given a solo exhibition in the Parc des Ateliers and the winner is chosen at a public vote by photography professionals during the professional week. The winner receives 25,000 €.
The nominators of the discovery award
Phillip S. Block, Deputy Director for Programs for the International Center of Photography in New York.
Artists presented : Lucas Foglia, Sam Falls and Hannah Whitaker
John Fleetwood, Head of the Market Photo Workshop, a school and gallery for photography in Johannesburg.
Artists presented : Sammy Baloji, Hasan et Zanele Muholi and Husain Essop
Tadashi Ono, Director of the new photography/contemporary art section at the Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Artists presented : Jonathan Torgovnik, Chu Ha Chung and Osamu James Nakagawa
Jyrki Parantainen, Professor of Contemporary Art Photography for the Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki.
Artists presented : Anni Leppälä, Jaana Maijala and Nelli Palomäki
Olivier Richon, Professor of Photography at the Royal College of Art in London.
Artists presented : Eva Stenram, Nadège Mériau and Regine Petersen
