Applications for the 2024 Yves Rocher Foundation Photo Prize are now being accepted. It was made in collaboration with Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan and gives you a chance to win a €8,000 grant.Your artwork will also be shown at the Festival Photo La Gacilly. It will also be on display at the “VISA POUR L’IMAGE – Perpignan” International Festival of Photojournalism.
Eligibility:
- Are you a professional photojournalist?
- Your committed photographic work deals with issues related to the environment, the relationship between humans and the earth or the major challenges of sustainable development?
- You write and speak in French or English?
- Then there’s no stopping you… send your application to the Yves Rocher Foundation!
The conditions for the award are:
- to be working as a photojournalist; and
- being able to write and speak in French or English.
Application:
Send an application via the WIIN platform, including :
- A curriculum vitae.
- A cover letter from the applicant containing a description of their photo essay project (maximum 1 typed page). This letter must not contain any information identifying the applicant.
- A provisional budget for funding the photo essay project.
Note: In the event of additional funding for the project from other partners, the applicant must provide the names of these partners for approval by the Yves Rocher Foundation, which reserves the right not to mention them.
- A photo essay produced in black and white or in colour: between 12 and 20 images maximum (see accepted format).
- Scans from publications where appropriate.
- A copy of the photographer’s identity document.
- A sworn statement that they work as a photojournalist.
The photographs provided must comply with the following criteria :
- JPEG format only (TIFF and EPS formats are not permitted).
- IPTC fields completed (captions and copyright) and a PDF file of the captions.
- Maximum file size per image: 3 MB.
- Image files must be named and numbered in the desired order of projection for the jury.
- Note: Applications that do not meet the technical criteria set out above will be disqualified from the competition.
- To maintain the anonymity of the files, no mention of the applicant’s identity should be visible in the images.
