Recognized as a public utility, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation’s mission is to preserve and transmit the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck.
In 2025, it is launching a curatorial research grant to support researchers and curators in developing a research and exhibition project on the work of Martine Franck and/or Henri Cartier-Bresson using the Foundation’s archives.
Awarded every two years, the Martine Franck Research Grant offers the recipient, who is part of a new international generation of researchers, privileged conditions for their work and contributes to renewing curatorial approaches to the work of these two photographers by encouraging new and contemporary perspectives.
Selected based on an application by a jury composed of professionals from the worlds of research and exhibition curation, the winner of the Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant receives, thanks to the support of the Linklaters Corporate Foundation, a €7,000 grant to curate an exhibition at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation and to produce a book in partnership with a publishing house.
During their research, the winner will benefit from facilitated access to the Foundation’s archives and mentorship in curating the exhibition. The exhibition designed by the winner will be presented at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation the following year.
For its very first edition, the Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant will reward a project exclusively dedicated to the work of Martine Franck.
The call for applications, which is open to researchers of any nationality who are enrolled in a doctoral program, have defended a thesis, or are enrolled in or have completed a curatorial degree program, is open from April 3 to May 31, 2025, on the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation website.
The name of the winner will be announced at the end of June 2025.
More information on the call for applications for the Martine Franck Curatorial Fellowship: https://bit.ly/4lbKnDi
