Results of Levallois Prize young international contemporary photography 2015 have just been announced. The laureate is the belgium photographer Tom Callemin with his series “Index“, a special mention was attribuated to “Anectodal“, a series by french photographer David Fathi. An another french photographer wins the Public choice Prize photographe it is Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine with “A Perpetual Season“.
Launched in 2008, the Levallois Prize upholds its commitment to support contemporary photography. Open to all forms of photographic expressions, the international Prize welcomes submissions from young photographers aged under 35. The winner of the Prize receive a grant of 10,000 Euros and have a two-month long exhibition at the Galerie de L’Escale in Levallois (to be held in October-November 2015).
This year, The Prix Levallois received 520 applications from 51 countries, Fannie Escoulen, Artistic Director for the Prize and Anna Planas, General coordinator, selected 15 finalists : Bego Anton (Spain, 1983), Sebastian Bruno (Spain, 1989), Alessandro Calabrese (Italie, 1983), Tom Callemin (Belgium, 1991), Hannah Dahrabi (Iran, 1981), Morgane Denzler (France, 1986), David Fathi (France, 1985), Olmo Gonzalez (Spain, 1981), Benjamin Mouly (France, 1987), Miren Pastor (Spain, 1985), Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine (France, 1981), Nick Quine (South Africa, 1990), Hanna Rast (Finland, 1986), Jojakim Cortis Et Adrian Sonderegger (Switzerland – Germany, 1979-1980), Arnau Blanch Vilageliu (Spain, 1983),
Lauréat : Tom Callemin
Index
Tom Callemin is not searching for reality but tries to reconstruct it through certain memories. Mostly in black and white, the photographs evoke an uncanny mood that cannot be fixed by time or space. The protagonists seem to be caught up in their own thoughts and withdrawn in their own world.
Special Mention : David Fathi
Anectoda
Since 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have exploded on Earth. Since the end of WW2, countries with nuclear power methodically bombed their own land – self-mutilation in the name of self-defense. This series examines the strange and inconceivable stories that have happened since.
Public choice Prize: Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine
A Perpetual Season
A Perpetual Season is a photographic journey through a dream-like city, a sort of inverted Arcadia, punctuated by unsettling encounters with recurring concrete shapes and perplexed human beings – a series of glimpses into a network of spaces that loom as silent witnesses to some forgotten order.
