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PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant

8th edition

PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant

© Sara Abbaspour

Results

Main Prize

1st Prize
Floating Ocean by Sara Abbaspour

€5,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2025, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

2nd Prize
Tierra Prometida / Promised Land by Lisa Elmaleh

€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2025, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

3rd Prize
Padre by Marisol Mendez

€1,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2025, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

“Sara Abbaspour’s Floating Ocean charts a transitional moment in Iran’s socio-political landscape told through the relationship between spaces and their inhabitants. Making poetry out of collisions—temporal and eternal, interior and exterior, familiar and peculiar, personal and political, seen and unseen, magic and mundane, imagined and experienced—Abbaspour conjures a complex and moving contemporary portrait of a society in an era of profound social transformation. Leveraging a collection of narrative threads, Abbaspour's potent body of work reminds us to continually renew our perspectives, not only as a way of imagining but as a means of survival.”
Gem Fletcher, Judge

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New Generation Prize

New Generation Prize Recipient
A Home With No Roof by Sara Faustino

€2,000 plus a projection at Photo Vogue Festival 2025, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

“Sara Faustino's project A Home With No Roof brilliantly uses a 1:15 scale model of a house to explore the dysfunctionality within her home. By immersing herself in this miniature world—incorporating scaled-down everyday objects, sculptures of body parts, and striking juxtapositions of size—she transforms the apartment into a monstrous entity while positioning herself as both subject and object within the space. Her imagery vividly conveys a sense of discomfort and awkwardness, evoking the emotional experiences of her younger self. Through this process, Sara not only invites the audience to empathize with her journey but also uses art as a medium to reflect on and reconcile with her past.”
Pixy Liao, Judge

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New Generation Prize Honourable Mentions

Projections at Photo Vogue Festival 2025, and promotion on the PhMuseum channels.

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Solo Exhibition at PhMuseum Lab

Prize Recipient
Heirloom by Lucija Rosc

Selected by PhMuseum, the work will be exhibited at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy in springtime 2025.

“Can memory be implanted in one’s body? In Heirloom, Lucija Rosc turns her grandma Mica’s former gold tooth from the ‘60s into a coating for her own dying tooth. She films the process, collects family photographs, dental molds and X-rays, she photographs Mica and herself as the two halves of one same body. Seen as the latest chapter in Rosc’s long-term artistic dedication to celebrating her grandparents, Heirloom is a symbolic gesture of visceral attachment, one of her many attempts at connecting layers of time, and materialising heritage.”
Camilla Marrese, PhMuseum Visual Editor

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6 Free Portfolio reviews

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

Results

Main Prize Shortlist

About

PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant

$11,000 in cash plus a solo show at PhMuseum Lab, screenings at Photo Vogue Festival, and more

The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 8th 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 before 20 November. Thanks for considering this opportunity and good luck with your applications!

Prizes

Supported by

Independent jury

  • Gem Fletcher
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    Gem Fletcher

    Writer, Host of The Messy Truth podcast

  • Farah Al Qasimi
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    Farah Al Qasimi

    Visual Artist

  • Pixy Liao
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    Pixy Liao

    Visual Artist

  • Danaé Panchaud
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    Danaé Panchaud

    Curator, Museologist, Lecturer and Director Centre de la photographie Genève

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