Since 1998, Bourse du Talent rewards emerging photographers. This event was developed and tirelessly supported by Didier de Faÿs, also founder of Photographie.com. His sudden disappearance leaves this program partly orphaned. With his daughter Aÿa, we wanted to preserve its continuity, particularly for the springboard it represents for photographers..
Aÿa de Faÿs and Philippe Gassmann have agreed to entrust the organization of Bourse du Talent to Picto Foundation, following Didier de Faÿs’s attention to emerging artists.
Since 2023, after 25 editions, Bourse du Talent has evolved in a desire to remain close to the proposals of contemporary photographers. Bourse du Talent is today interested in new documentary writings used by photographers to tell our world. At a time when press photography tends to be projected on screen rather than printed on paper, when emerging photographers largely make their projects coincide in a plurality of mediums and writings, Bourse du Talent still aims to be a megaphone listening to these new documentary expressions.
Bourse du Talent also continues to fully play its role as a springboard towards the professionalization of photographers, keen to encourage their careers in the photography market.
Each year, three Bourses du Talent are awarded to photographers whose projects are deployed around new documentary approaches, whether it is a plastic, scientific, literary approach, or any other transversality put forward in the story’s service, or the use of new technologies to support narrative expression.
Bourse du Talent is open to photographers of all nationalities, attentive to all subjects and all expressions and encourages eco-responsible and committed approaches.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France will exhibit the winning photographs of Bourse du Talent alongside other prestigious prizes, as part of the La Photographie à tout Prix exhibition.
After the laureates nomination, the organizers will choose alongside Saif one of them, who will benefit from the Bourse du Talent Saif (Society of Authors of Visual Arts and Still Images) worth 4000€, for the production of a documentary project.
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