Prix Viviane Esders is a prize that rewards the career of a professional European photographer over 60 years old, who is independent and still active. The prize rewards a career that has already been recognised, but whose importance now deserves to be brought to light and to be more clearly inscribed in the history of photography.

Each year, a prestigious jury will select five nominees, including one winner.

The Prize aims to highlight the vision and itinerary of a life, that of photographers, authors whose medium has tirelessly animated Viviane Esders’ career since the 1980s. This prize reflects the coming together of two complementary and inseparable life paths, that of its founder, dedicated to understanding, loving and exhibiting photographers, and that of a photographer, dedicated to creation in the hope of creating a work of art.

There is no entry fee.

Eligibility

Open to professional European photographer over 60 years old.

Prize

The prize will reward the winner with a financial endowment of 60,000 EUR offered by Viviane Esders. Part of the endowment (10,000 EUR) is reserved by the winner for the production of a book on his or her work.