Winners of the Prix de la Photographie, Paris - PX3

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) and State of the World photo competitions have now announced the winners of 2021. Visionary photographers from around the world, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next "PX3 Photographer of the Year", cash prizes, publication in the PX3 Annual Book, and inclusion in an exhibition to be shown in Paris.

The PX3 jury, made up of international photographers, editors, curators, evaluated thousands of entries from all over the world. Photographers have submitted their outstanding works in the following categories: Advertising, Architecture, Book, Fine Art, Nature, Portraiture, Press and Special, all of them a testament to the immense talent they possess.

The State of the World special curated selection reflected unadulterated images documenting events and highlighting current issues from every corner of the globe. In his Curator Statement, Hossein Farmani, founder of PX3, commented, 2021 has been a year of increasing challenges and escalating crisis on multiple fronts. We received hundreds of compelling visual stories, submitted from around the globe, and every story is important and significant in its own way. They are a glimpse into what is happening around us, through the lens of these great professional and amateur photographers, who shared the stories of what they have witnessed personally, speaking louder than words, giving us a better understanding of those around us and far from us, showing us that we are united in our struggles, in our joys, in our humanity.

Growing Up Travelling © Jamie Johnson

PX3 Photographer of the Year 2021 is Jamie Johnson with her powerful photo book, Growing Up Travelling, focusing on Irish Travellers that live in caravans on the side of the roads throughout Ireland, and their children's everyday lives. PX3 Best New Talent 2021 is Diana Cheren Nygren with her stunning work The Persistence of Family, a Fine Art masterpiece collating generations together through old family photos and new ones.

The Persistence of Family © Diana Cheren Nygren

Professional category winners
Gold in Advertising - Mikolaj Krawczunas: Ballerina
Gold in Architecture - Tommy Kwak: Lifeguard Towers
Gold in Book - Pedro Jarque Krebs: Fragile
Gold in Fine Art - Omar Torres: Ensayos del Colapso
Gold in Nature - Shirley Wung: Horse Race
Gold in Portraiture - Jamie Johnson: Growing Up Travelling book
Gold in Press - Janusz Daga: Protest in Thailand. The Milk Tea Alliance
Gold in Special - Sandra Cattaneo Adorno: Águas de Ouro

Non-Professional/Student category winners
Gold in Advertising - Antonio Coelho: Plastic, One Enemy?
Gold in Architecture - Kunkun Liu: Special Structures
Gold in Book - Francis Meslet: Abandoned Churches - Unclaimed Places of Worship
Gold in Fine Art - Diana Cheren Nguyen: The Persistence of Family
Gold in Nature - Brigitte Bouger: Abyss
Gold in Portraiture - Atoosa Alebouyeh: Me In My Point of View
Gold in Press - Shyamala Thilagaratnam: The Cuban Boxers
Gold in Special - Jun Yeh: Toilet Room

Winners' Exhibition in Paris
The PX3 exhibition will gather the 1st Place winning photographs from Px3 2020 and Px3 2021 and the curated selection of "State of the World" 2020 and 2021. The exhibition will take place October 25 to October 31, 2021 at Espace Beaurepaire, Paris.

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent, and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris. A selection of work from this competition is displayed in Paris and the winners are published in the PX3 Annual Book. Juried by leading editors, publishers, curators, gallery owners, consultants, creative directors, and art directors, PX3 brings the best of photography from across the globe to Paris.

Farmani Group is a leading organization curating and promoting photography, design and architecture across the globe since 1985. The company's key mission is to discover and promote talent in these areas through competitions, awards, exhibitions, developing artist communities, providing networking opportunities and education.

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

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I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

By Pauline Vermare

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 440 pages

I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society. Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and writer Takeuchi Mariko, and photo-historians Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick provide a critical historical and contemporary framework for understanding the work in three richly illustrated essays. Additional context is provided by an in-depth illustrated bibliography by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and a selection of key critical writings from leading Japanese curators, critics, and historians such as Kasahara Michiko, Fuku Noriko, and others, many of which will be published in translation for the first time. While this book does not claim to be fully comprehensive or encyclopedic, its goal is to provide a solid foundation for a more thorough conversation about the contributions of Japanese women to photography—and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a more robust history of Japanese photography.

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

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Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

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