Rahim Fortune © Alessandro Mosalini
Rahim Fortune, winner of The Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022 at the Rencontres d’Arles
12/07/2022 – Arles, Provence
Involved for more than five years in the Rencontres d’Arles, the Louis Roederer Foundation supports emerging talents through the Louis Roederer Discovery Award in Arles.
© Sasha Wolf Projects and Rahim Fortune
Rahim Fortune, winner of The Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022
This year, the jury of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022 has rewarded Rahim Fortune presented by Sasha Wolf Projects (New York, United States) for his autobiographical project “I can’t stand to see you cry ” that raises fundamental questions about American identity in a world plagued by the Covid pandemic and the United States witness George Floyd’s execution.
© Mika Sperling
Mika Sperling,
2022 Public’s Award
Mika Sperling presented by Ahoi (Lucerne, Switzerland) has been granted the 2022 Public’s Award for her project “I Have Done Nothing Wrong” on the incest taboo in her family.
© Olga Grotova
Olga Grotova, 2022 special mention
Finally, the jury has decided to award a special mention to Olga Grotova presented by Pushkin House (London, England) for her project “Our grandmothers’ gardens”, which tells the story of her ancestors by highlighting Soviet propaganda.
The Louis Roederer Discovery Award associates all exhibition spaces. Through their work spotting new talent, galleries, art centres, community spaces, independent venues and institutions are often the first to support emerging artists. The ten selected projects for the 2022 edition are considered as a collective exhibition, conceived, from the selection to the hanging, by the curator Taous Dahmani. The exhibition focuses neither on theme nor genre, but on the attitudes of the selected photographers: towards image creation, taking a “pre-photographic” viewpoint on what drives or gives rise to a project. Here the artists begin with the intimate. Though formed at the verge of being, the works on show resonate beyond the particular to forge ties with conditions we have in common. The intimate thus becomes a space for the critical exploration of our society.
The award-winning photographs will be presented until 28 August 2022 in the Frères Prêcheurs church in Arles, France.
