Call for Applications: National Photographic Commission Regards du Grand Paris #8

Each year, six photographers are selected to respond to the national photographic commission for Regards du Grand Paris, sponsored by the  Ateliers Médicis  and the  National Center for Plastic Arts  (Cnap).

Arouse sensitive, multiple and offbeat views on a territory in full transformation; inviting artists to tell their story and their perception of the changes in Greater Paris: this is the ambition of the national commission for Regards du Grand Paris.

This photographic commission aims to constitute, year after year, a corpus of images and views of authors on the evolution of Greater Paris. The images are given to see in the public space, during exhibitions or within publications and, the works integrate the National Fund for Contemporary Art, a collection managed by the National Center for Plastic Arts (Cnap).

Theme

• What does not stay in place?
  • The theme “What does not hold in place” comes from the last sentence of the essay “In name (s) proper (s)” proposed by Romain Bertrand in the work of the first five years of the national photographic order Views of Greater Paris: “Strategy of the portrait, tactic of the interstice: all means are good when it comes to seizing what does not hold in place.

Funding Information

• An allowance of €17,000 is given to each of the winners to cover the remuneration of the work and the production of the works (equipment, travel, etc.)

Eligibility Criteria

• The photographic order is addressed to all the artists’ authors without limit of age or nationality and without requirement of training or diploma.
• Applicants are invited to submit a photographic project responding to the theme of the call for applications.
• The projects are selected on the quality of the author’s background, the relevance of the proposal in response to the order and the innovative dimension of their project. Particular attention is paid to emerging author artists, that is to say those for whom the commission represents a decisive step in their career.

For more information, visit National Center for Plastic Arts – Cnap.