PhMuseum 2021
Women Photographers Grant
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A sincere thanks to all the applicants and supporters of this edition!
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€5,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
€1,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Projections at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 5th edition, aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Its mission is to support the growth of the new generations and promote stories narrated from a female perspective, while responding to the need to work for gender equality in the industry.
To participate, you are invited to submit one or more projects centred around a specific theme, narrative or concept. All approaches are welcome from classic to more experimental projects, and you can present more than one work. By applying you retain full copyright or your images at all times, and we’ll ask for your permission to share them on our social media channels.
The judging will happen between October and November with the shortlist to be announced just before Photo Vogue Festival. Thanks for considering this opportunity and good luck with your applications!
The jury was impressed to see the honest and raw vulnerability on display in Ana Vallejo’s latest project. With her personal experiences as a starting point, Vallejo courageously maps how trauma affects our emotions, mental health, and the way we bond in romantic relationships. Mirjam Kooiman, Judge, PHM 2021 Women Photographers Grant
€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Projections at Photo Vogue Festival 2021, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
We are very proud to support Chingrimi because she is a unique female voice coming out of North East India. She is reclaiming narratives and telling indigenous stories through their own meanings and interpretations, in this particular case through objects as totems of past, present and future. Poulomi Basu, Judge, PHM 2021 Women Photographers Grant
Selected by PhMuseum Director Giuseppe Oliverio and PhMuseum Curator Rocco Venezia the work is granted a solo show at PhMuseum Lab in 2022.
Selected by Alessia Glaviano, the work will be published on Vogue Italia in 2022.
Selected by Chiara Bardelli the work was published on Vogue Italia in March 2022.
Selected by Francesca Marani, the work will be published on Vogue Italia in 2022.
Each photographer will be granted a 60-min free portfolio review with a mentor of their choice from the PhMuseum Education Program.
Multimedia Artist
Poulomi Basu is an Indian transmedia artist, photographer, and activist whose work advocating for the rights of women has received wide attention. In her practice, she explores how the formation of identity intersects with geopolitics to reveal the deep, often hidden power structures in our societies. Born and raised in India, Basu spent her formative years in Kolkata, whose cinematic tradition provided early inspiration. Basu majored in Sociology, then completed her Masters in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. Basu was awarded the prestigious Hood Medal by the Royal Photographic Society in 2020 for her transmedia work Blood Speaks which put menstrual rights on the international agenda and resulted in a major policy change. She has exhibited internationally and is a National Geographic Society Explorer, Sundance Fellow, and a Magnum Foundation Fellow. She directs Just Another Photo Festival, a traveling guerilla visual media festival that democratizes photography by offering it to ordinary people and building new audiences. Her first book, Centralia (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020), was the winner of the Discovery Award 2020 at Les Rencontres d'Arles and a nominee for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Her work is publicly collected by Victoria and Albert Museum London, Autograph, Recontres Arles, MoMA (Special Collections) and Martin Parr Foundation .
Curator at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
Mirjam Kooiman is an art historian and curator at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, where she was responsible for shows including Ai Weiwei – #SafePassage, Daisuke Yokota – Matter, Awoiska van der Molen – Blanco, and the traveling Foam Talent exhibitions of 2015 and 2016. In 2017 she also initiated a series of collaborations with photography platforms in Mexico, Nigeria and Indonesia in Foam’s project space Foam 3h, in order to create an exchange of cultural knowledge on photography discourses worldwide. She is currently researching how photography relates to virtual realities and online experiences. Mirjam holds a BA in Art History and a MA in Museum Curating from the University of Amsterdam.
Associate Curator Of Photography Centre Pompidou
Damarice AMAO, PhD, is associate curator of photography at the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art moderne, Paris. She has curated numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogues, including Photographie, arme de classe (Centre Pompidou/Textuel, 2018), Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Jacques-André Boiffard. La parenthèse surréaliste (Centre Pompidou, Xavier Barral, 2014) and recently Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, 2019) and Charlotte Perriand. Comment voulons-nous vivre? (Rencontres Arles/Actes sud, 2021).
Senior Photo Editor at TIME
Dilys Ng is Senior Photo Editor at TIME. She commissions, produces and edits photography across platforms for high impact features and projects like TIME100, Person of the Year, Guns in America and Next Generation Leaders. She was previously at the Singapore International Photography Festival and has served as juror on multiple awards and reviews.
by Ana Vallejo
by Laura Chen
