Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026: applications open until 25 February!
GRAND PRIX IMAGES VEVEY
+ IMAGES VEVEY BOOK AWARD
APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL 25 FEBRUARY
TRY YOUR LUCK!
Professional artists and photographers, as well as those in training, have one more week, until 25 February, to enter the competition for the Grand Prix Images Vevey and/or the Images Vevey Book Award.
GRAND PRIX IMAGES VEVEY
Is a creation-support grant for photography projects. The award, worth some 40,000 CHF, enables one artist to develop a new photography project over a year and to present it at the next Biennale Images Vevey from 5 to 27 September 2026. The competition represents unique support for contemporary creation, with complete freedom of choice over subject and genre.
Up for grabs:
➝ An indivisible grant of 40,000 CHF
➝ One year to develop and complete a new photography project
➝ An exhibition at the next Biennale Images Vevey in September 2026
Sasha Kurmaz, Red Horse, laureate of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2023/2024. Installation view, Biennale Images Vevey 2024
Debsuddha, Crossroads, laureate of the Images Vevey Book Award 2023/2024
IMAGES VEVEY BOOK AWARD
Is a grant that supports the publication of a photography book which showcases an optimal and original balance between publication format and photographic content. It provides a financial contribution that aims to encourage artists to take risks and to innovate, in order for them to develop a suitable sophisticated publication format for their photography project.
Up for grabs:
➝ A grant of up to 20,000 CHF
➝ One year to develop and produce a unique photography book
➝ A launch at the next Biennale Images Vevey in September 2026
JURY OF THE GRAND PRIX IMAGES VEVEY 2025/2026
The final Jury of the Grand Prix Images Vevey is composed of five international personalities from the institutional, artistic, curatorial media and editorial world.
RINEKE DIJKSTRA, Photographer and video artist, based in Amsterdam (NL), will chair the jury of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026, which comprises the following international experts (in alphabetical order):
LEWIS CHAPLIN, Co-founder, Loose Joints, Marseille (FR)
OLUREMI C. ONABANJO, The Peter Schub Curator, The Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
ALONA PARDO, Director, Arts Council Collection, London (UK)
URS STAHEL, Artistic Director, Fondazione MAST, Bologna (IT)