Talent Exchange Scholarship Program: New Documentary Writings

At a time when the press image tends to be projected on screen rather than printed on glossy paper, when emerging companies largely combine their projects in a plurality of mediums and writings, the Talent Exchange continues to be an echo for all these new documentary expressions.

Since 1998, the Talent Exchange has rewarded the talent of young creators in the fields of photography by supporting emerging photography each year. This event, organized by Photographie.com and Picto Foundation, has become over the years an essential event dedicated to the recognition of emerging artists. It acts as a springboard towards professionalization and the market for these emerging talents.

Each year two to three Talent Grants will now be awarded to photographers whose projects are deployed around innovative documentary strategies, whether an approach flirting with the visual artist, science, literature or any other other transversality put at the service of the story, or even new technologies to support narrative expression. The Talent Exchange is open to photographers of all nationalities, attentive to all subjects and all expressions and encourages committed approaches and eco-responsible practices.

The National Library of France will exhibit the photographs taken by the two young photographers who won the Talent Exchange as part of the annual exhibition “Photography at Any Price”. This exhibition of the work of the winners produced by the PICTO laboratories allows, each year, to discover these new lines of force in contemporary photography. The Bnf’s commitment to the Talent Exchange also gives the opportunity to winning photographers and their remarkable documentary approaches to enrich the collections of the Prints and Photography department of the National Library of France.

Prize Information

• One of the three winners will benefit from the Saif Talent Scholarship worth €3,000.
• The works of the winners become part of the common and universal heritage and the history of photography.
• The production by the PICTO laboratories of an exhibition presented for several months at the BnF, François Mitterrand site, François Mitterrand site, a prestigious place where the big names in photography are regularly exhibited and which benefits from exceptional visibility.
• With the help of the Picto Foundation, the PICTO laboratories produce the prints of the winners, ensure their installation and take-down.
• Pixxtrak offers a subscription to the protection service, moral and patrimonial rights of photographers.
• The dissemination of the work of photographers through promotion encouraging meetings between professionals in the sector.
• Support and advice from Picto Foundation for award-winning photographers in their research and efforts.
• A credit offered by PICTO to selected photographers giving them the opportunity to contact the laboratory’s experts.

Who can apply?

• Photographers who have published little and exhibited without age limit.
• Photographer duos.
• The Talent Exchange is open to photographers of all nationalities, attentive to all subjects and all expressions and encourages eco-responsible and committed approaches.

Conditions of Participation

• The Talent Exchange is interested in new documentary approaches convened by young photographers to tell the world while taking into account the evolution of forms and constraints of mediation of the image. Every year two or three Talent Scholarships are awarded to photographers whose projects are deployed around new documentary strategies, whether of an approach flirting with the visual artist, of science, literature or any other transversality put at the service of the story, or even the use of new technologies to support narrative expression.

For more information, visit Picto Foundation.