Prix Photoforum 2024
8 December 2024 – 26 January 2025
Every year, the Prix Photoforum brings together artists whose projects represent the broad spectrum of contemporary photography and explore artistic boundaries. The 2024 selection deals with themes such as family, identity and the pressing social challenges of our time. Through personal archives, reflections on memory, and powerful portrayals of global issues, their works offer unique perspectives that navigate local and historical narratives, blending symbolic and emotional depth.
Exhibiting artists
Tiziana Amico
Lisa Karnadi
Yann Haeberlin
Khashayar Javanmardi
Nina Pacherova
Peter Pflügler
Raisan Hameed
Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Barbara Truog
Tianyu Wang
Together, these artists offer critical reflections on the world around us, each using photography to question contemporary issues through a unique and compelling lens.
The participants in the exhibition were selected through an annual open call that attracted 200 submissions from artists across all areas of photography. The jury, composed of Alfio Tommasini (Co-founder and Director of Verzasca Foto), Teresa Gruber (Head of Exhibitions & Specialization, Fotostiftung Schweiz), Morgane Paillard (Director of Alt+1000), Nicolas Savary (Photographer and Board Member of Photoforum), and Amelie Schüle (Director & Curator of Photoforum), reviewed and evaluated the submissions, focusing on artistic quality and originality.
We are delighted to announce that Khashayar Javanmardi is the winner of the Prix Photoforum 2024. The jury praised his project for its deeply personal and urgent exploration of environmental degradation in the Caspian Sea region, told through emotionally charged photographs that draw attention to broader socio-political consequences.
Accompanying programme
19 December 2024: ‘Family Histories Revisited: What Remains? Exhibition tour on the themes of family and archives with Nina Pacherova, Lisa Karnadi and Tianyu Wang.
16 January 2025: ‘How does photography change the way we look at social challenges? Exhibition tour on new documentary photography with Khashayar Javanmardi, Jordi Ruiz Cirera, Yann Haeberlin and Tiziana Amico
