The Planches Contact Festival’s 2025 Young Photographic Creation Audience Award was presented to Anaïs Ondet for her project Les Filles d’ici – Celles qui n’ont pas peur du calme (The Girls from Here – Those Who Are Not Afraid of Calm). Awarded following a vote by festival visitors, this distinction recognises a sensitive photographic approach deeply rooted in reality, which has resonated with a wide audience.
Through Les Filles d’ici – Celles qui n’ont pas peur du calme, Anaïs Ondet explores the daily lives of young girls living in so-called ‘in-between’ territories, on the edge of the urban and rural worlds. Far from stereotypical representations, the photographer offers a careful documentary approach, based on time, listening and encounter.
Her work questions the identity constructions, aspirations and ties to the territory of these young women living in often invisible spaces. It is a fair and delicate vision that won over the public: more than 1,800 voters took part in this year’s People’s Choice Award.
The 2025 Young Photographic Creation Public Prize complements the Jury Prize, awarded this year to Naïma Lecomte by a jury chaired by Rima Abdul-Malak, former Minister of Culture. Together, these two awards highlight the richness and diversity of perspectives.
The rural world and intermediate areas occupy a central place in Anaïs Ondet’s work. Marked by her childhood and adolescence, these territories have become the focus of her photographic research. Driven by a desire to accurately portray these spaces, the photographer
favours sincere exchanges, far from clichés and fantasised visions.
Developed as part of her residency at the Planches Contact Festival, Les Filles d’ici (The Girls from Here) continues in this vein, presenting intimate and collective narratives imbued with calm, strength and lucidity.
Les Filles d’ici – Those who are not afraid of calm
The rural world and the territories in between occupy a central place in Anaïs Ondet’s work.
After travelling through them throughout her childhood and adolescence, they became the main subject of her photographic investigation.
Driven by a desire to accurately portray these spaces, the photographer takes the time to observe them, favouring sincere encounters and exchanges, far from clichés and fantasised representations.
As part of this residency, she is continuing this approach through Les filles du coin (The local girls), a documentary project that focuses on young girls living in these intermediate areas — neither entirely urban nor entirely rural. This photographic research seeks to capture their daily lives, their questions about identity and their aspirations to build a future in these often forgotten territories.
Born in 1997 in Toulouse, Anaïs Ondet lives and works in the south of France. A graduate of ETPA (Toulouse), she has developed a sensitive photographic body of work focusing on rural and ecological issues. Her work has been exhibited at Les Mesnographies (Les Mesnuls), ImageSingulières (Sète), Les Photaumnales (Beauvais) and the Alliance Française in Malaga.
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Planches Contact Festival
Deauville, France
October 18, 2025 to January 31, 2026
