Themes and Grant Recipients

As part of the Institut pour la photographie’s Research and Creation Grant Program, please find below a summary of the program’s editions, their themes, the awardees, and their respective projects. 

Flags and Ultras Fans: The Poetics and Politics of the Group, Simon Bouillère - Photographer, researcher, and historian, France

The Wrongs of Ghosts, Sido Lansari - Multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, Morocco and France

Building a Home, Building a Community—Group Portraits of Africans in 1960s England, Margaux Lavernhe—Art historian, author, and researcher, France

Representing and Showcasing Labor: Photographic Practices, Camille Richert—Art historian, author, teacher, and researcher, France

Intimate or editorial: selling, showcasing, and recounting the journey through Czechoslovakia through photographed landscapes, Marie Blanc - Ph. D. Candidate in art history and teacher, France

"Love-struck earth" (a term used to describe dirt that sticks to boots), Rebekka Deubner - Photographer and researcher, France

Landscapes Through Extraction: An Iconographic Study of Territories in the Global South: The Case of Latin America, Alejandro León Cannock - Researcher and instructor, France

Galaxy, Simon Ripoll-Hurier - Artist, filmmaker, researcher, and photographer, France

Carne Vale, fight like a fascist, Yasmina Benabderrahmane - Artist, photographer, and videographer, France

Cathedrals for the Visual Culture. Walls of Images in France in the 1960s and 1970s, Guillaume Blanc-Marianne - Art historian, author, and researcher, France

Urban Identities on Display, Abrazo de Gol Collective: Gaby David and Maximiliano Battaglia - Art collective, France and Uruguay

Paravent Pictures, Mazaccio & Drowilal - Artist duo, France

Black Mountain Retcon, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques - Artist, author, and photographer, France

Written texts, Vanessa Desclaux and Agnès Geoffray - Curator, author, and artist, France

writing, arguing, storytelling, Nina Ferrer-Gleize - Artist, photographer, author, and teacher, France

Between Saying and Seeing—The Stephen Sisters’ Photo Albums as a Testimony to the Renewal of Narrative, Doriane Molay - Artist and researcher, France

 

Local Strikes, General Strike—Images and Myths of Workers’ Resistance in France (1890–1914), Maxime Boidy - Researcher in visual studies and author, France

Through Agnès Varda’s eyes, “to follow all the turmoil and charms of decolonization,” Émilie Goudal - Doctor, researcher, and author, France

Tupi or not Tupi, Livia Melzi - Artist, researcher, and oceanographer, Brazil

Deal with it - Aesthetics of Repair, Moss Collective: Lieselotte Egtberts, Elisa Maupas, Lucie Ménard, and Anna Stoppa — Curatorial collective, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Italy

Four Corners, Théodora Barat - Artist, researcher, filmmaker, and visual artist, France

DéTerre, Grégory Chatonsky - Researcher and instructor, France

The Earth's shadow, Sarah Ritter - Artist, researcher, and photographer, France

The Blue Jaguar, Ana Vaz - Artist and filmmaker, Brazil

True Faith, Ezio d’Agostino—Photographer and archaeologist, Italy and France

Photography: a noun? A profession that sparks the imagination, Véra Léon - Researcher and historian, France

The Skeptics, David De Beyter - Artist and photographer, France

Taming the Depths? Photography, Caving, and Underground Imaginations, Laureline Meizel - Doctor and researcher in art history, France

Optical Theater, Aurélien Froment — Multidisciplinary artist and teacher, France and Ireland

Sharing One’s Map of the World: The Role and Uses of Photography in ORTF’s Documentary Approach, Audrey Leblanc — Historian, researcher, and teacher, France

Greetings from Reykjavik - Scattered Archives, Christel Pedersen — Art historian and author, France and Denmark

Photography Books and Liberation Movements in Africa, Raquel Schefer and Catarina Boiero — A duo of researchers and programmers, France