Both a museum, a cultural center, a place of research and teaching, the Museum of Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac highlights non-European cultures in the heart of Paris. The museum brings together a collection of 370,000 objects, a considerable graphic arts collection and a collection of more than 710,000 old and contemporary photographs. The collection of photographs covers all geographic areas represented at the museum, as well as the entire historical field of the medium, from 1842 to today.
Since its launch in 2008, the Award for la Photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac has supported contemporary photographic creation. Each year, the museum finances the creations of three winners, selected on the basis of an original project, consistent with their artistic trajectory. It also takes charge of the final production of a selection of these works which then becomes part of the museum’s collection. Focused on demanding photography practiced throughout the world, the program is not limited to documentary practice and is open to broader forms of image production.
Since 2008, this support has made it possible to reveal numerous talents and to make French public collections more open to the whole world and its current creation.
The works of the 47 winners of the Prix pour la Photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac can be viewed on the website www.quaibranly.fr.
Candidacy
Application files must be sent by post before March 11, 2024 (postmark as proof) at the following address:
Prix pour la Photographie
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Direction du développement culturel
222, rue de l’Université
75343 Paris Cedex 07
France
Calendar
The selected candidate undertakes to respect the following schedule:
- June 2024: selection of new winners;
- Between June 2024 and April 2025: period of conception of the photographic work and the “making of”;
- April 30, 2025: deadline for submission to the museum of the photographic work and the “making of”;
- Between June and November 2025: stay in Paris for a period of 7 to 10 days in order to print the prints intended to integrate the museum’s collections.
Endowment
Each selected winner receives the sum of €30,000 net for the realization of their project.
This amount is fixed and covers expenses linked to the costs generated by the implementation of the project (travel, accommodation, technical costs, etc.) as well as the transfer of rights granted by the author for the photographic work intended to enter the collections of the museum.
The costs linked to the winner’s stay in Paris for the making of the prints intended to enter the museum’s collections (transport, daily expenses and accommodation) as well as the costs linked to the production of said prints are covered by the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
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