The Discovery Award 2026 Louis Roederer Foundation announced the artists and organisations selected among more than 300 applications received from all over the world are:
SOULEYMANE BACHIR DIAW (Senegal) presented by La.ima (France).
JORDAN BEAL (Martinique, France) presented by La Station Culturelle (Martinique, France).
AMIRA LAMTI (Tunisia) presented by Doors (France / China).
MALLORY LOWE MPOKA (Canada / Belgium / Cameroon) presented by Occurrence (Canada).
MAGALI PAULIN (France) presented by doubledummy (France).
PHAN QUANG (Vietnam) presented by Galerie Bao (France).
CHARLOTTE YONGA (France / Cameroon) presented by Fondation H (Madagascar).
Their projects are supported by guest curator Nadine Hounkpatin and will be exhibited at the next edition of the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles, from 6 July to 4 October 2026.
During the opening week, a jury will be invited to award the Discovery Prize, which will reward one of the seven selected projects with a €15,000 acquisition of works; and the public will vote for the Public Prize, which will reward one of the selected projects with a €5,000 acquisition of works. The works will be added to the Rencontres d’Arles collection.
“The best way to tell the truth… might be to accept that in photography, it is neither immediate nor neutral. The seven artists brought together for the 2026 Discovery Award show that truth is constructed through relationships, proximity and the engagement of bodies, memories and legacies. Rooted in multiple cultural and historical narratives, activated by ritual, movement or intimate archives, photographic truth becomes processual and situated. It embraces subjectivity as an ethical, critical and political condition for accessing a reality that is always in flux, never given once and for all. On the contrary, this reality is constructed, sometimes contested and always transformed through these multiple and committed perspectives.” – Nadine Hounkpatin
With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation
https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/actualites/view/830/prix-decouverte-2026fondation-louis-roederer
