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PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant

12th edition

PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant

© Jaclyn Wright

Results

Main Prize

1st Prize
High Visibility (Blaze Orange) by Jaclyn Wright

€5,000 plus a projection at Verzasca Photo 2024, Kranj Foto Fest 2024, and PhMuseum Days 2024, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

2nd Prize
Caspian by Khashayar Javanmardi

€2,000 plus a projection at Verzasca Photo 2024, Kranj Foto Fest 2024, and PhMuseum Days 2024, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

3rd Prize
Dead Letter Room by Allie Tsubota

€1,000 plus a projection at Verzasca Photo 2024, Kranj Foto Fest 2024, and PhMuseum Days 2024, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
The vibrant orange of Jaclyn Wright’s High Visibility catches my gaze and draws me in. The traces of various activities - photographs, maps, archival photos, installations, and performances - are unified and comfortably harmonized by the bright orange and its complementary color, blue. The viewer is naturally driven by the urge to try to understand the message intended by the artist. I’m impressed by the sensitivity with which the chaos is comfortably controlled, as well as the truly free approach to the photographic medium.
Kensuke Koike, Judge

Results

New Generation Prize

New Generation Prize Recipient
Techniques Of The Liar by Shelli Weiler

€2,000 plus a projection at Verzasca Photo 2024, Kranj Foto Fest 2024, and PhMuseum Days 2024, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.
Shelli Weiler’s Techniques of the Liar takes us into an uncertain zone, where human behaviour seems like half-rehearsed ritual. Is this a fiction being documented? Or life being dramatized by the camera? Both. Weiler works as a film set photographer and special effects make-up artist, often on horror films in which violence against women is frequently part of the genre. She’s interested in rote gesture and formula, but alert to chance and the contingencies of life. Full of strange detail and clipped narrative, there’s a lot to look at, and a lot to think about here.
David Campany, Judge

Results

A Solo Exhibition at PhEST

Prize Recipient
ESPERANTO by Matthias Jung

Selected by PhEST’s team the work is granted a solo show during the 9th edition of the festival to be held in Monopoli, Italy in September 2024.

Results

A Solo Exhibition at Getxophoto

Prize Recipient
Family by Spasi Sohrani

Selected by Maria Ptqk, Head Curator of Getxophoto, the work is granted a exhibition during the 18th edition of the festival which will be held in Getxo, Basque Country, Spain in June 2024.

Results

A Solo Exhibition at PhMuseum Lab

Prize Recipient
That Moment When You Can See The Crack In The World by Matthieu Croizier

Selected by PhMuseum, the work will be exhibited at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy in January 2025.
Three years ago, Ukranian artist Spasi Sohrani started a photographic collaboration with her parents inverting the usual terms of the dressing-up game. "They are like those children whose mother puts them in front of the Christmas tree dressed in special clothes to take a photo for the family album. While the mother spends her time looking for the best angle, the girl looks at the camera with a frown because she is bored and she is uncomfortable dressed like this", she says. For Sohrani, who began her career as an advertising photographer of objects, Family is a reinterpretation of the memories of parents and children from an adult perspective. Separated by war and with few occasions to meet, the project has become a channel to return to what each remembers from that common past.
Maria Ptqk, Curator Getxophoto 2023-25

Results

6 Free Online Portfolio Reviews from PhMuseum Education

Each photographer will be granted a 60-min free portfolio review with a mentor of their choice from the PhMuseum Education Program.

La Comunidad
by Camile Juárez

The Landscape Does Not Sit Willingly
by Davina Jogi

El Tesoro De Salaverry (Salaverry's Treasure)
by Gabriela Concha

19&
by Ian Ritter

The Taste Of Salt
by Jieyu Deng

Golikro
by Olivier Khouadiani

Results

Shortlisted Projects Screening at International Photo Festivals

The 34 shortlisted projects of this 12 edition will be screened at Verzasca Photo 2024, Kranj Foto Fest 2024, and PhMuseum Days 2024.

Leave And Let Us Go
by Alexandra Howland

Archive Of Longing
by Ali Tahayori

Dead Letter Room
by Allie Tsubota

An Anatomy Of Fear
by Alvaro Deprit

Consumed By Uncertainty
by Antine Karla Yzer

Metamorphosis
by Claudia Fuggetti

SUN DOG
by Ezio D'Agostino

APPUNTI PER UN'ORESTADE AFRICANA - A Democracy In Fatigue
by Gloria Oyarzabal

Out The E
by Harlan Bozeman

Non Fiction
by Henri Kisielewski

The Mark Of A Terrible Sun
by Ioanna Sakellaraki

OF FIRE, FAR SHINING
by J.A. Young

High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
by Jaclyn Wright

They Still Owe Him A Boat
by Jono Terry

Caspian
by Khashayar Javanmardi

The Journey Home From School
by Laura Pannack

Contrast A
by Makoto Oono

Contrapasso
by Massimiliano Corteselli

ESPERANTO
by Matthias Jung

That Moment When You Can See The Crack In The World
by Matthieu Croizier

Between Hope And Dystopia
by Maximilian Mann

Anima Mundi
by Máté Bartha

When The Sun Hits
by Patricia Voulgaris

Lonely Are All The Bridges
by Robin Hinsch

Parallel Play
by Rory Hamovit

Manong
by Ryan Frigillana

Techniques Of The Liar
by Shelli Weiler

Host (Working Title)
by Sushant

In Praise Of Shadow
by Tomasz Kawecki

ASHES OF THE ARABIAN'S PEARL
by VALENTIN JOSEPH VALETTE

Sonechko, Yak Ty? (Sunshine, How Are You?)
by Varvara Uhlik

Those Who Talk In The Temple Are Consigned To Sorrow And Woe
by Vladimir Seleznev

Unnatural Collapse
by Yuhang Jiang

Save As Text
by Yujie Zhou

About

PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant

General Info

The PhMuseum Photography Grant is an annual initiative that recognises the importance of photography and visual storytelling.

Over the years it has grown into a leading photography prize, with previous editions having awarded work by photographers like Max Pinckers, Poulomi Basu, Jacob Aue Sobol, Diana Markosian, Alejandro Cartagena, Bieke Depoorter, Camille Lévêque, and Tomas van Houtryve, among many others. Now in its 12th edition, the initiative is designed to support the production and promotion of visual projects through cash prizes, exhibitions at international festivals, educational activities and exposure on online media.

The theme is open. All approaches are welcome, from traditional documentary photography to experimental ways of telling a story or sharing a concept. Applicants retain full image copyrights. You can see all the prizes and learn how to apply below, while you can check FAQs here. Thanks for considering this opportunity and best of luck with your applications!

Prizes

Supported by

Independent jury

  • David Campany
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    David Campany

    Curator and Writer

  • Lebohang Kganye
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    Lebohang Kganye

    Visual Artist and Photographer

  • Penelope Umbrico
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    Penelope Umbrico

    Visual artist

  • Kensuke Koike
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    Kensuke Koike

    Visual artist

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