Prix Viviane Esders for Photographers Over 60

Consisting of 60,000 euros, this unique prize will be awarded each year to a professional European photographer over the age of sixty: to reward the work of an independent photographer who is still active, whose career, the extent and the quality, deserves more recognition or bringing to the fore in the history of photography.  A jury consisting of five personalities linked to the art world will select the winner with Viviane Esders among five nominated photographers. The exceptional grant is intended to celebrate the continuity of a career and encourage sharing. Part of this grant, 10,000 euros, must be used by the winner to contribute to producing a book.  The Prix Viviane Esders aims to highlight the vision and itinerary of a life, that of photographers, authors whose medium has tirelessly animated Viviane Esders’ career since the 1980s. This prize reflects the coming together of two complementary and inseparable life paths, that of its founder, dedicated to understanding, loving and exhibiting photographers, and that of a photographer, dedicated to creation in the hope of creating a work of art.