Photographer grant
Selection criteria
Must be 30 years of age or younger, be a practising freelance photographer and present two published photo-reports. Must have an original idea for a photojournalism report, in France or abroad, relating to a cultural, social, economic or political issue.
2007
William Daniels may not always find the right words, but he has the pictures and a tremendous amount of energy. As a teenager, he watched his father develop black and white negatives...
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2006
SPECIAL GRANT
Stéphanie Lacombe always knew that she would be a photographer. At age eight, armed with her first camera, she was already immortalizing her family and its meals. She made a detour...
2006
Véronique de Viguerie isn’t afraid of anything. At 17, she even wanted to be a soldier. Her father, a radiologist and amateur photographer, advised her to study law so that she could become an officer. She got a master’s, and realized...
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2005
Agnes Dherbeys had always dreamed of being a journalist. Her secondary school diploma in hand, she entered the Lyon Political Science Institute and later received a post-graduate professional degree in communication sciences...
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2004
Was it her distant Russian origins, her old passion for science and space, or her consciousness of a bygone 20th century that led Émilie Buzyn to the Baikonur cosmodrome? “Baikonur, the focal point...
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2003
Eric Baudelaire has never followed a prearranged path. His life has been one lucky coincidence after another, all leading him to photography...
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2002
SPECIAL AWARD
As it completes its current expansion, the European Union will soon have a new border to the east. How do its new neighbours feel about the prospect of a new structure to Europe? ...
2002
The aim of Stéphane Lagoutte's photo-reportage project is to show the slavery that is ravaging Mauritanian society, as it is in many countries that sit on the boundary between Arab and African societies...
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2001
SPECIAL AWARD
Samuel Bollendorff first discovered photography when his father bought an enlarger when he was 11. It was not long before he left the darkroom that had been set up in his mother's cellar...
2001
A great-grandfather who was a baker in Cameroon, a father who set off on an adventure to practise at the hospital in Bamako and stayed to complete his thesis in ophthalmology, and a childhood spent first in Mali and later in Senegal...
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2000
At first glance, her studies in languages and foreign civilizations wouldn't seem to predispose her to photography, unless, her motivation was already being outlined in the background: a certain curiosity and a desire to understand...
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2000
People in the business say he has a rare talent, that you don't get into the award-winning photographic agency Agence Vu at the age of 24 for nothing...
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1999
Matias Costa was born in Argentina in 1973, not long before the Videla dictatorship. At the age of four, he emigrated to Spain, which explains his love for both countries...
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1998
After earning a master’s degree in geography, Didier Della Maggiora left for Australia to visit his sister. Fascinated by the open spaces and the light, he bought his first camera...
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1997
Tiane Doan na Champassak’s father, a painter, offered his son a Pentax for his 10th birthday: that was all it took to bring forth a passion and reveal a talent...
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1996
Hien Lam Duc was 9 when he left school to become an apprentice mechanic, working with devices. At age 12, he fled to Thailand with his parents and five brothers and sisters, encountering the security towers of refugee camp ghettos...
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1995
SPECIAL AWARD
Just months after winning the World Press Photo Master Class, he was selected for a special prize by the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation’s Photographer grant jury for his project on French middle schools...
1994
After studying for a second-year diploma in history, Jean-François Castell enrolled at the Ecole Technique de Photographie et d’Audiovisuel in Toulouse. His photos of street artists earned him a double-page spread in Paris Match...
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1993
Philippe Lopparelli, the grandson of steelworkers, has lived in Lorraine for many years. He has devoted two years of his working life to what he considers his heritage, focusing on landscape, its transformation into nature morte and the evolution of various sites...
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1992 (en)
A conflict in Lebanon, which the photographer Samer Mohdad has known all his life and which has forced him into exile.
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1991 (en)
Having begun his career as a black and white reprographer in a Montana photographic laboratory, Yann Charbonnier worked as an assistant to numerous photographers in New York and Paris...
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