Viviane Esders brought together the jury for her Prize to select the three finalist photographers for the 2024 edition and the winner of her prize. The Viviane Esders Prize was awarded to Jean-Claude Delalande on Wednesday October 9, 2024 during a ceremony at the Jeu de Paume, and will receive an endowment of €50,000, of which €10,000 will be devoted to publishing.
For the 2024 edition of the Viviane Esders Prize, 178 applications from 17 European countries were received, including 24% from women photographers.
The jury, chaired by Viviane Esders, was composed of Emma de Caunes (actress and director), Antoine de Galbert (contemporary art collector and patron), Marion Hilsen (responsible for the support fund and workshops at ADAGP) , Luce Lebart (historian of photography and exhibition curator), Jean-Hubert Martin (curator and exhibition curator) and Nicolas Trèves (collector of contemporary art and photography).
He chose to select three distinct approaches and approaches to photography, reflections of photographic practices over the last forty years.
Created in 2022, the Viviane Esders Prize aims to honor each year the work of a professional European photographer over sixty years old, independent and still active, whose importance and quality of the career deserve to be better revealed or illuminated in the history of photography.
Series Daily © Jean-Claude Delalande
About Jean-Claude Delalande
After studying accounting, Jean-Claude Delalande joined an insurance company at 18; he worked there for 37 years. At the same time, he never abandoned his passion for photography. He took portraits of his family, he photographed sad landscapes after the storm and took photos of himself. Later he depicts his loved ones in their daily lives.
In 1993, he took photography lessons at a school in Montreuil-sous-Bois in the Paris region. At that moment, he had the idea of combining self-portraits and staging with these same relatives. As a couple, he photographs his own daily life and when the opportunity arises he invites family and friends to participate. The series Daily takes shape. Other photographic creations keep him busy, such as Asymmetry, Light and Dark, Still Lifes, Under construction, La vie en rose… Some of these series have been the subject of exhibitions: at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France François Mitterrand, at the MuCEM in Marseille, at the Rencontres Photographie d’Arles, at the Galerie Claude Samuel in Paris , at the MAMAC in Liège, at the Imagerie de Lannion… Some photographs have joined the collections of the BnF, the Bièvres photography museum, the Imagerie de Lannion.
Series Daily © Jean-Claude Delalande
He also collaborates with daily newspapers; The Cross, The World and the magazine Stubborn. Several portfolios have been published in journals; Images Magazine, Photo Answers, Eyemazing, Magazine photography.
The two finalists for the 3rd edition of the Viviane Esders Prize are:
Hannah Collins et Nicole Gravier
[Source : communiqué de presse]
