PhMuseum 2022
Women Photographers Grant
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€5,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
€1,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Projections at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 6th 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!
Through Van Wyk’s superb symbolic use of black and white photography, the work explores the contradictions and connections of race, migration, apartheid and colonialism between South Africa and The Netherlands. While the images evoke the strong sense of intimacy, freedom, and serenity that can exist in Dutch rural life, they are also layered with signifiers that remind us of its paradoxes for a child of apartheid. Van Wyk’s skilful ability to layer her exploration of the ‘grey area’ aesthetically and metaphorically to evoke her inner double vision is remarkable, and it is what sealed the brilliance of this work. Jane’a Johnson, Juror
€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, a remote consultancy, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Projections at Photo Vogue Festival 2022, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Vân-Nhi Nguyễn is an impressive emerging artist from Vietnam who documents the life of her people through a performative and collaborative process. In her series, As You Grow Older, she combines a traditional documentary aesthetic with contemporary staging techniques to evoke curiosity and meaning in the viewer. The images in this series are transformative—at once subtle and captivating—and challenge our perceptions of Vietnamese youth. Her playful staging of scenes and deliberate framing of her subjects all speak to Nguyễn's understanding of the inherent qualities of the medium of photography, and its limitations. I congratulate the artist on her creation. Hoda Afshar, Juror
Selected by Noorderlicht's Curatorial Team, the work will be exhibited in the Noorderlicht 2023 Photofestival, taking place from 26 August to 26 November in the Netherlands.
Selected by PhMuseum's Director Giuseppe Oliverio and Curator Rocco Venezia, the work will be exhibited at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy in springtime 2023.
Selected by Alessia Glaviano, Chiara Bardelli and Francesca Marani the work will be published on Vogue Italia.
Each photographer will be granted a 60-min free portfolio review with a mentor of their choice from the PhMuseum Education Program.
Head of Global Photo Vogue and Director of Photo Vogue Festival
Alessia Glaviano is the Head of Global Photo Vogue and Director of Photo Vogue Festival.
Besides curating a series of interviews with the Masters of photography for Vogue Italia’s website, which have acquired enormous popularity among the community of people interested in photography and which are also broadcast on the Italian Sky Arte channel, Glaviano is also responsible for Photo Vogue, an innovative platform on which users can share their own photographs knowing they can rely on the curatorial supervision of professional photo editors.
Under Glaviano’s direction, Photo Vogue has reached over 180.000 users/photographers hailing from all over the world and launched a collaboration with the prestigious international agency Art & Commerce, which represents some of the most esteemed names in fashion photography, including Steven Meisel, Sølve Sundsbø, Paolo Roversi and Patrick Demarchelier. At Condé Nast, Alessia is responsible for the artistic direction of events and exhibitions for Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue. In 2016 Glaviano directed the first edition of The Photo Vogue Festival The event marked the first conscious fashion photography festival dedicated to the shared ground between Ethics and Aesthetics, bound to an influential fashion publication, engaging the whole city of Milano with talks, exhibitions and photography-related initiatives.
Besides the editorial activity, Alessia holds lectures and conferences on a regular basis. Some of the institutes and universities she was invited as guest lecturer include: IED, Bocconi University and the Milan Polytechnic. Glaviano was invited to participate as jury member in numerous internationally acclaimed photography contests including the World Press Photo and the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères; and has participated in several portfolio review sessions, including the “New York Times Portfolio Reviews”.
Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska New York
As the founding Director of Exhibitions for Fotografiska New York, Amanda Hajjar has been responsible for the museum’s exhibition strategy since its opening in December 2019. Hajjar collaborates with world-renowned artists to bring their exhibitions from initial concept to final reality. Prior to Fotografiska, she worked at Gagosian Gallery where she organized more than 50 exhibitions with artists and their estates. Hajjar graduated with a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Photographer
Hoda Afshar (1983, Tehran) lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.
Hoda Afshar explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making. Working across photography and moving image, the artist considers the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. In her artworks, Afshar employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Recent exhibitions include; WE CHANGE THE WORLD, National Gallery of Victoria (2021), PHOTO International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (2021), Between the Sun and the Moon: Lahore Biennale (2020), Remain, UQ Museum of Art in Brisbane (2019), Beyond Place Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA (2019), Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Waqt al tagheer: Time of Change, ACE Open in Adelaide (2018).
In 2015, she received the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, in 2018 won Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia and in 2021 she received the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for outstanding talent and exceptional courage. Hoda is represented by Milani Gallery in Australia.
Artistic Director Foam Fotografiemuseum
Jane’a Johnson (b. 1988, US) is Artistic Director of Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam. Her work and writings have focused on archives, museums, photography, race, and the visual culture of the African Diaspora. She is formerly Assistant Professor of Theory of Art + Design and History, Philosophy + Social Sciences at Rhode Island School of Design. Johnson received her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, where she directed the Photographic Archives Research Group. In summer 2022, her installation project, Past Made Present: Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic, opens at Rhode Island School of Design.
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