The French photographer Zélie Hallosserie, who paperwork the tales of migrants, has received the inaugural Saltzman-Leibovitz images prize. The award was established by the excessive profile photographers Annie Leibovitz and Lisa Saltzman who arrange the prize by the philanthropic organisation, the Saltzman Household Basis.
Hallosserie, who’s finishing her research in images at ESA Saint-Luc Tournai artwork faculty in Belgium, receives $10,000. “Her ongoing mission, The Sport, captures the non-public journeys and tales of migrants in Calais, an usually perilous last junction earlier than reaching the UK,” says an announcement.
Hallosserie tells The Artwork Newspaper: “This prize issues rather a lot to me because it provides visibility to a trigger that’s usually neglected or misunderstood, particularly in at this time’s political context. It’s vital for me to characterize what’s taking place within the north of France, past the usually pitying or stereotypical photographs we often see.” She goals to publish the total mission shortly which can embrace written testimonies and different photographs of individuals she met in France.
The opposite shortlisted photographers had been chosen from contributors in Leibovitz’s mentorship programme, which is a part of her function as the primary IKEA Artist in Residence introduced in 2023. As a part of the programme, 5 younger photographers had been mentored by Leibovitz and IKEA, enterprise the identical temporary as Leibovitz: to interpret insights from the annual IKEA Life at House Report by the lens of a digicam.
The opposite photographers shortlisted had been Elena Kalinichenko (Ukraine), Ka’Vozia Glynn (United States), Reward Hassan (Nigeria), Toma Hurduc (Romania), and Trâm Nguyễn Quang (Netherlands). Judges included Drew Sawyer, images curator on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, and Raul Martinez, inventive director at Vogue.
Works by the nominated photographers will likely be exhibited on the Photograph London honest (15-18 Could).
