With this award, the Carmignac Gestion foundation has chosen to support in-depth work of photojournalists, whose profession is in the grips of a severe financing crisis. Every year, a EUR 50.000 grant is awarded to fund a photo-reportage carried out over a period of several months on a specific, topical subject. The Foundation promotes the award via an exhibition and the publication of a monograph. It also purchases four of the photographs included in the report.

True to its humanist approach, the Carmignac Gestion Foundation wishes to use this award to give these key witnesses of today’s world the means to go where others will not, and to continue visiting zones that are largely ignored by the mainstream media outside periods of conflict.

Epicentres of grievous violence with worldwide repercussions, the selected zones are the scenes of intense human suffering. That is why the topic proposed for the 2012 Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award is: Chechnya.

The 2012 jury, composed of journalists, experts on Russia, and photographers, will be presided over by the journalist and writer Galia Ackerman, who has translated the work of Anna Politkovskaya. The other jury members are: Daphné Anglès, New York Times correspondent; Mari Bastashevski, photojournalist; Christian Caujolle, journalist, curator and founder of the agency and Galerie Vu’; Elena Chernyschova, Russian photograher; Marielle Eudes, an editor at AFP; Robin Hammond, documentar photographer and winner of the 2011 edition of the prize; Walter Keller, publisher and director of the eponymous photography gallery in Zurich; and Olivier Laurent, online editor of the British Journal of Photography.

The panel of judges will meet on 30 October 2012 to select the winner, who will have to submit his or her photo-reportage by March 31st 2013 at the latest.

Responses must be sent to the Foundation by 30 September 2012.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Contact : Nathalie Gallon, directrice du Prix Carmignac Gestion du photojournalisme.
ngallon@carmignac.com