Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026

The international photography award Grand Prix Images Vevey, offers a CHF40,000 grant and winning projects are then exhibited at the Biennale Images Vevey the following year.

Overview

Open to artists and photographers around the world, the grant aims to support original creation and is awarded every two years. This CHF40,000 prize enables one artist to develop a new photography project over the course of a year and present it at the following Biennale Images Vevey. This is also when the Images Vevey Book Award is presented, alongside various other grants representing a total of over CHF100,000 of financial support for creative projects.

Practical Info

The competition is open to professional artists and photographers as well as those in training, with no age limitations or regional restrictions. It represents a unique support for contemporary creation, with complete freedom of choice over subject and genre.

Applicants must submit 10 images from an ongoing photographic project or description of a work in progress, that has never been shown. The images are either relate to the project or are representative of the artist’s style, drawn from previous works. If none of the ten pictures relate to the project being submitted, entrants should include a brief text explaining their selection. Additionally, submissions must include a statement of intent written in English (600 characters maximum) and a general text presenting the project in detail, including the idea, intentions, and objectives (one page maximum).

After a first pre-selection phase, a jury of art professionals selects the winning project, which will be carried out within one year and showcased at the following Festival Images. This prize grants the laureate the indivisible sum of CHF40,000 for the development, achievement and presentation of a new photography project at the next Biennale Images Vevey in 2026. The total amount will be split between CHF30,000 granted to the laureate in three installments for the development and achievement of a project, while CHF10,000 will be managed by Images Vevey for the creation and promotion of the project's exhibition at the biennial.

About Images Vevey

Images Vevey serves as an ecosystem dedicated to supporting various forms of artistic creation through four core activities: L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, a permanent gallery for contemporary photography; the Grand Prix Images Vevey, one of Europe’s most long-standing grants for photography projects; the Éditions Images Vevey publishing house; and, of course, the Biennale Images Vevey. Every other year since 2008, Images Vevey has proposed site-specific outdoor and indoor photographic installations in Vevey: on its streets and facades, in its parks, museums and galleries, and even in Lake Geneva.