Carmignac Photojournalism Award : 10 years or reportage

An exhibition on Porquerolles Island. July 4 — November 1, 2020

04 June 2020

Fondation Carmignac is pleased to present Carmignac Photojournalism Award: 10 Years of Reportage, at the Villa Carmignac on the Island of Porquerolles.

These photos inform us, but they also make us act. They help mobilise public opinion and influence history. Each one creates an outcry. On the edge of inhumanity and disaster, photojournalists testify to something that is being lost, that is being forgotten.
Because their gaze is visionary, these testaments acquire a strange power, sometimes resembling omens as they combine the force of form with loaded content.
It is up to us, as we contemplate them, to open our minds to the messages within.
Charles & Édouard Carmignac

The exceptional display of more than 170 photographs showcases ten years of photo reports, spotlighting human rights violations and environmental issues, in different regions of the world. This retrospective is also a tribute to the courage and independence of the photojournalists who, through their own unique perspectives, have witnessed and shared the irreversible upheavals that the planet is going through.

On the ground floor of the Villa, the first eight projects are presented as a thematic journey through the regions explored by the Award. From the normalisation of ‘‘conflict zones’’ in both Lashkars(Pashtunistan) by Massimo Berruti and Gaza: The Book of Destructionby Kai Wiedenhöfer, to accounts of modern slavery in The Trap: Trafficking of Women in Nepal by Lizzie Sadin, and Libya: a Human Marketplaceby Narciso Contreras; with reports from forgotten regions of republics in Guyana: Colony by Christophe Gin, and from Newsha Tavakolian’s Iran (Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album ); and with projects uncovering fundamental attacks on freedom of expression, including Spasiboby Davide Monteleone (Chechnya) and Zimbabwe: Your wounds will be named silenceby Robin Hammond, the exhibition invites visitors to consider the humanitarian crises and environmental disruptions that affect many countries today.

In the upstairs exhibition spaces, two reports dedicated to climate change and its human consequences will be on display: the ‘‘new Far West’’, Arctic: New Frontierby Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir van Lohuizen (2018), and Amazônia by Tommaso Protti (2019).

Finally, the current edition, Congo in Conversation , is displayed on the walls of the Villa’s tennis court.