Prix HSCB 2016 by Jason Whittaker

2016 AWARD WINNERS

Christian VIUM and Marta ZGIERSKA have been awarded. This year Chris Clark, President of Prix HSBC pour la Photographie awarded Patrick Willocq for his work "Forever Wale – (Forever Walé (I am Walé Respect me, Part II), with a Prix Coup de Cœur 2016.

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2016 AWARD WINNERS

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The 21st Prix HSBC pour la Photographie nominated Diane Dufour as 2016 artistic advisor, who proposed 12 photographers to the members of the Executive Committee "The work of eleven nominates for the 2016 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie draw a territory marked by exceeding conventional real registration forms in favor of translations can be an inner experience. Writing not about something but it would be something even. A photograph that does not comment, does not solve, does not reveal. An enigma form sufficient in itself."

Christian VIUM “Equipped with a medium-format camera, a notebook and a GPS, Christian Vium mapped out Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. Begun in 2010, “The Nomadic City” is a laboratory project that draws up a portrait of this rapidly growing major city, built ex-nihilo in 1957 on a nomadic camping area, through the juxtaposition of his own photographs and many unpublished documents. Archive pictures, press cuttings, photographs borrowed from family albums, film archives and various written sources to which he had access during his research that lasted almost a year, carried out on-site as part of his doctorate in Visual Anthropology, have become the raw material of an abundant installation.” Diane DUFOUR Artistic advisor 2016

BIOGRAPHY Christian Vium is a photographer, filmmaker and anthropologist, primarily working on long-term personal projects anchored in participatory observation and in-depth collaboration. His works is at the intersection between documentary, art and social sciences. His previous works have been awarded by many prizes: FOAM Talents 2015, Lensculture Emerging Talents 2015 Grand Winner and in 2011, the Anthropographia Award for Human Rights in the United States. Christian Vium is based in Aarhus, Denmark. He is currently employed as a Post Doctoral Fellow in visual anthropology, as part of the research project “Camera as Cultural Critique”.

EXHIBITIONS 2016 The Wake, FOAM Talents 2015, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium 2015 The Wake, Tokyo International Photography Festival 2015, Tokyo, Japan PRIX 2015 2011

About “The Nomadic City”, he says: By juxtaposing a variety of photographic practices and ethnographic methods, the project affords a kaleidoscopic view of urbanization from below – that is from the urban fringes – inviting inhabitants to participate actively in the writing of the history of the city.

Grand Prix Winner, Tokyo International Photography Competition 2015, Tokyo, Japan Winner of the 2011 Anthropographia Award Human Rights, United-States

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Born in 1980 in Danemark. Lives in Aarhus, Danemark

2016 Award Winners

“In 2013, Marta Zgierska survived a serious car accident and several months of intense hardship (surgical procedures, physiotherapy, depression, etc.). This traumatic event completely redefines her photographic work and gave rise to “Post”. By attempting to embody her trauma through photography, Marta Zgierska uses an autobiographical approach. She distances herself symbolically from her fears and anxieties and fixes them in a pure form, producing fragile pictures that hang on by a thread... Glacial, almost silent images, that form the conundrum of a conversation reduced to the bare essentials, the visual articulation of the minimal language of survival. A rock suspended on a rope, a light-coloured coat spattered with blood, the chassis of a compacted car, a woman's hand with a bloody lifeline: each photograph metaphorically evokes a part of her own story, suggesting it by elliptically with clinical aesthetics. A hand-written letter is also depicted as a photograph. This is the focal point of her story: using the words of a former teacher describing her at the age of seven, a very good pupil and liked by all, the young woman clearly shows us the persistent discrepancy that she feels today, faced with the world.” Diane DUFOUR Artistic advisor 2016

About "Post", she says: "I started taking the first photographs as a way of incantation of fear… “Post” is a project on a break point, frozen in dead greyness, silence and tension. Everyone can find their own punctures here – exhausting dreams, fears, obsessions. An individual way of discovering a twin traumatic memory."

Born in 1987 in Poland. Lives in Warsaw BIOGRAPHY Marta Zgierska was born 1987, in Lublin, Poland. She works and lives in Warsaw. She holds MFA in photography (The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School), MA in Theatrology and MA in Journalism.

EXHIBITIONS 2016 Post, Circulation(s) Festival, France 2015 Post, Malmo Fotobiennal, Sweden Post, Pa-ta-ta Festival, Grenada, Spain PRIX 2015 2015

LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards (winner) Lucie Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship (shortlisted)

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Marta ZGIERSKA

2016 SELECTION

The work of eleven nominates for the 2016 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie draw a territory marked by exceeding conventional real registration forms in favor of translations can be an inner experience. Here, the photographic style is becoming its own subject.

If the photograph appears crossed by the temptation of anthropology (Christian Vium), ethnography (Julien Lombardi), film (Alejandro Erbetta) or the new (Patrick Willocq), purely documentary impulses are rare. We are facing a photograph of the order of lived beyond certainties and large attempts of objectification of the world. The real is not claimed, certified or authenticated but made through an inner experience, that it raises questions of identity (Marta Zgierska, Alejandro Erbetta, Johanna Parra and Elsa Benainous) or is experienced by immersion (Julien Lombardi, Yann Laubscher). So Jean-François Devillers went to Chernobyl to express what the photographic observation manages to capture the persistence of the danger and the terror it inspires. Christian Vium, he always confronts the historical data collected in Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, every day of its people: every detail is significant to grasp the whole situation.

Of course, the tension is not played between documentary record and subjectivity of the author: it lies rather between the implementation of a clinical recording device in the world and in the same movement, exploration of 'elusive nature of what escapes us. With the notable exception of works presented by JeanFrançois Devillers and Adrien Boyer, the image is never taken for herself, she enrolled in a temporal flow (Erbetta), in a package that makes sense by accumulation (Benainous and Parra, Vium, ...). Landscapes respond to individuals (Lombardi), objects to human bodies (Kim Young June), the staged scenes to intimate musings (Patrick Willocq). For an internalized practice of editing and a search of the fair sequence, all deliver long resonance images, photographs haunted by the desire to move. A new photographic language seems to be emerging today in the Prix HSBC Award nominates. Writing not about something but it would be something even. A photograph that does not comment, does not solve, does not reveal. An enigma form sufficient in itself. Diane DUFOUR Diane Dufour graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, was the European director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2007. She has curated monographic exhibitions co-produced in collaboration with international museums and collectors. She has also curated a number of collective exhibitions, including Euro Visions at the Centre Pompidou in 2005 and L’Image d’après at the Cinémathèque Française in 2007. In 2010 Diane created LE BAL, transforming a 1920s dance hall in Paris into a cutting-edge venue for contemporary images (photography, video, film, new media). Internationally acclaimed for the quality of its thematic exhibitions (Anonymes, l’Amérique sans nom, Topographies de la guerre) and solo shows (Antoine d'Agata, Chris Killip, Paul Graham, Lewis Baltz, Dirk Braeckman), LE BAL has emerged as one of the foremost exhibition spaces for photography in Europe. Its world-class status is reflected in its joint productions with museums including the IMS in Brazil, the Folkwang Museum in Germany and the Winterthur Fotomuseum in Switzerland. In 2013 Diane Dufour created The Curators' day, a platform for debate and project-sharing between thirty European museums. Over the past five years, Diane Dufour has compiled numerous reference publications on contemporary photographers, including Mark Cohen, Dark Knees - Lewis Baltz, Common Objects - Hiroshi Watanabe, A Criminal Investigation and Dirk Braeckman, Sisyphe.

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2016 NOMINEES A Couple of Them

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Adrien BOYER

Jean-François DEVILLERS

Born in 1991 – Lives in Paris johannabenainous@gmail.com

Born in 1979 – Lives in Paris adrienboyer@hotmail.com

Born in 1968 – Lives in Le Mans jf.devillers@gmail.com

& Elsa PARRA Born in 1990 – Lives in Paris elsa.parra2010@gmail.com

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Johanna BENAÏNOUS

Johanna BENAÏNOUS & Elsa PARRA

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Young-June KIM

Yann LAUBSCHER

Born in 1973 – Lives in Asnières-sur-Seine ale_erbetta@hotmail.com

Born in 1977 – Lives in Paris botagu@hotmail.com

Born in 1986 – Lives in Lausanne yann.laubscher@citycable.ch

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Alejandro ERBETTA

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Christian VIUM

Born in 1978 – Lives in Marseille o-nord@hotmail.fr

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Olivier NORD

Born in 1980 – Lives in Paris julienlombardi@gmail.com

Julien LOMBARDI

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2016 NOMINEES Forever Walé (I am Walé Respect me, Part II)

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Born in 1987 – Lives in Warsaw zgierskamarta@gmail.com

Marta ZGIERSKA

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Born in 1969 – Lives between Paris, Hong-Kong and Kinshasa pw@patrickwillocq.com

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Patrick WILLOCQ

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

MISSIONS AND INITIATIVES

The Executive Committee, composed of qualified artistic professionals and representatives of the HSBC Group, is responsible for selecting the artistic advisor and validating the actions of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie.

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, created in April 1995, is now in its 21st year of accompanying young photographic creation and undertakes to support even more strongly the work of its award winners with a fifth stage in the travelling exhibition and help in producing the works presented in this latest exhibition, thus providing a fresh impetus for the award winners.

Executive Committee

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS

MEMBERS OF HSBC

Patrick de CAROLIS

Samir ASSAF

Director of the Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris

Christian CAUJOLLE

Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Holdings Plc

Journalist, writer, founder of the VU Agency and Gallery

Mounira BENISSAD

Francis CHARHON Director General of the Fondation de France

Lawyer for HSBC France Private Banking and Wealth Management

Olivier SAILLARD

Joy HENDERIKS

An annual competition is open from September to November to any photographer who has never had their monograph published, with no age or nationality criteria. Each year, an artistic advisor is nominated to give a fresh outlook and to preselect around ten candidates who are presented to the Executive Committee in order to select the two award winners. The HSBC Prize supports the two photographers by:

Director of Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Head of Public Relations, HSBC France

Renaud DONNEDIEU DE VABRES

Philippe HENRY

• Publishing each artist’s first monograph in association with the publisher Actes Sud in the “Prix HSBC pour la Photographie Collection”.

Head of Banking, Continental Europe & Africa HSBC Bank Plc

• Creating and organizing the travelling exhibition of their works at five cultural venues in France and/or abroad.

David MOLINA

• Help in promoting new works throughout the year, presented during the fifth stage.

Former Minister, Chairman of RDDV Partner

Agnès de GOUVION SAINT-CYR Former Inspector General for Photography at the Ministry of Culture, Director of AGSC Conseil

Chantal NEDJIB Chairman of L'image par l'image

Zoé VALDES Journalist, writer, producer – Lunaticus Productions

Program Manager, HSBC France

Philippe PONTET Chairman of Investment Banking, HSBC France

• Guaranteeing the acquisition by HSBC France of six works by each award winner for its photography fund. Christine RAOULT Delegate General

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The Committee is chaired by Chris CLARK, Group General Manager and Global Head of Marketing - HSBC Holdings

AWARD WINNERS & ARTISTIC ADVISORS Since 1996 Eric PRINVAULT Henry RAY

Milomir KOVA ˇCEVI´C Seton SMITH

Valérie BELIN Carole FÉKÉTÉ

Laurence DEMAISON Rip HOPKINS

Malala ANDRIALAVIDRAZANA Patrick TABERNA

Clark et POUGNAUD Marina GADONNEIX

Aurore VALADE Guillaume LEMARCHAL

Laurent HOPP Lucie & Simon

Leonora HAMILL Eric PILLOT

Delphine BURTIN Akiko TAKIZAWA

Christian VIUM Marta ZGIERSKA

Christian Caujolle Journalist, author and founder of the VU Gallery and Agency

Jérôme Sans Art Critic and Curator

Jacqueline d’Amecourt Curator of the Lhoist Group collection

Robert Delpire Director of the Photo Poche collection and editor

Carol Brown † Head of Art Gallery at the Barbican Centre (London)

Gilles Mora Director of the “L’Œuvre Photographique” collection at Editions

Chantal Grande Chairwoman of the Fondation FORVM for photography and Director of the Contemporary Art Centre TINGLADO 2 – Tarragona

Bernard Marcelis Art critic and curator

Rafael Doctor Roncero Art historian (Madrid)

Simon Baker Curator of Photography and International Art at the Tate Modern in London

Diane Dufour Director of the BAL

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Jean-François CAMPOS Bertrand DESPREZ

Catherine GFELLER Yoshiko MURAKAMI

François Hébel Director, Rencontres d’Arles

Alain Mingam Former Photographic Editor-in-Chief for Sygma, Gamma and Le Figaro

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Franck CHRISTEN Jo LANSLEY & Helen BENDON Alain D’Hooghe Photo chronicler, Curator, Professor of Photographic History (Brussels)

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Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND Laurence LEBLANC

Eric BAUDELAIRE Brigitta LUND

Julia FULLERTON-BATTEN Matthew PILLSBURY

Grégoire ALEXANDRE Matthieu GAFSOU

Alinka ECHEVERRIA Xiao ZHANG

Cerise DOUCÈDE Noémie GOUDAL

Maia FLORE Guillaume MARTIAL

Giovanna Calvenzi Photography Director for “Sportweek” (Milan)

Olivia Maria Rubio Exhibitions Department Director at La Fabrica (Madrid)

Alain Sayag Photography Manager from 1981 to 2006 at the national modern art museum at the Centre Pompidou

Olivier Saillard Director of Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Agnès Sire Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais Art historian, head of the photography collection at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris

François Cheval Director of the Museums of Chalonsur-Saône and Chief Curator of the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalonsur-Saône

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The functions of the artistic advisors extend only over the year stated.

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