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The Rencontres d'Arles Awards
Exhibitions presented with the backing of Foundation LUMA.
Exhibitions presented at the Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers.
Since their inauguration in 2002 the Rencontres d’Arles Awards have brought the revelation of all sorts of new talents.
Five professionals from different countries and different photographic fields – Elisabeth Biondi, Caroline Issa and Masoud Golsorkhi, Nathalie Ours, Carla Sozzani, Luis Venegas – have each been invited by Christian Lacroix to designate three photographers to exhibit at the Rencontres as candidates for the Discovery Award.
The Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award
goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has been recently discovered internationally or deserves to be. The winner is chosen by a vote of photography professionals present in Arles during opening week and receives 25,000 €.
Winner of the Discovery Award 2008 :
Pieter Hugo
The Contemporary Book Award
goes to the best photographer’s project book published between 1st June 2007 and 31st May 2008. The grant award is 8,000 €.
Winner of the Contemporary Book Award 2008:
Strange and Singular
by Michael Abrams, Loosestrife Editions, 2007.
The Historical Book Award
goes to the best thematic or monographic publication published between 1st June 2007 and 31st May 2008. The grant award is 8,000 €.
Winner of the Historical Book Award 2008:
Nein Onkel
, Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007.
Historical Book Award 2008 – special award of the jury:
Le vocabulaire technique de la photographie
, book to wich several authors have contributed under the supervision of Anne Cartier Bresson , 2008.
The Book Award winners are picked by the five nominators, the Rencontres’ president François Barré and the Fondation Luma's founder Maja Hoffmann.
The three awards will be presented at the ceremony to close the opening week of the festival.
The LUMA Foundation, Rencontres d’Arles Awards partner since 2002:
A non-profit foundation, the LUMA Foundation helps independent artists and trailblazers to carry through projects in the fields of art and image, publishing, documentary and multimedia. It is also committed to backing projects relating to the environment, education and culture in its broadest, most innovative sense. In this way the foundation sparks fruitful dialogue between spheres that do not always interact easily.
Dedicated to ongoing discovery, the LUMA Foundation is proud to be sponsoring the Rencontres d'Arles Awards in 2008 and thus to be providing long-term support for artistically committed photographers.
