Camera Clara Photo Award

Created in 2012, Camera Clara Photo Award is dedicated to photographers using large format camera. It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set. The work will be assessed on its coherence, as a form as well as a content.

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Joséphine de Bodinat Moreno

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Founder and organizer of the Camera Clara Photography Award

Founded in 2009 by Xavier Moreno and Joséphine de Bodinat Moreno, the Grésigny Foundation is a family foundation under the aegis of the Fondation de France, aimed at funding philanthropic projects with social, cultural, and environmental purposes.

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Dominique de Font-Reaulx

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President of the Jury

An art historian and general curator of heritage, specializing in photography and the 19th century, she was a curator at the Museum of French Monuments in charge of the plaster cast collection from 1996 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008, she was a curator at the Musée d'Orsay responsible for the photography collection. In 2008, she was appointed scientific coordinator for the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Eugène-Delacroix National Museum. Since 2018, she has been leading mediation and cultural programming at the Louvre, overseeing exhibitions, art workshops, publications, and mediation. Since 2018, she has also been the editor-in-chief of the journal Histoire de l’art.

She also teaches at the École du Louvre and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. An author of art history works, she has curated numerous museum exhibitions.

Aurélie Chauffert-Yvart

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Artistic Director of the Award

Holder of a master's degree in cultural management, Aurélie Chauffert-Yvart held various positions in art publishing (editorial, communication, development…) for ten years, notably at Seuil and Diane de Selliers, while also pursuing photography as an amateur. In 2015, Vera Michalski Hoffmann invited her to join the Libella group to create and direct an art gallery. Located in the former gallery of Robert Delpire and Magnum Photos, Folia is entirely dedicated to photography.

In 2021, Aurélie Chauffert-Yvart joined the development team at the National Library of France. In 2024, she was appointed head of the Louvre's publishing development.

She is the author of novels published by Albin Michel and Denoël.

Héloïse Conésa

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Héloïse Conésa, PhD in art history from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, a former student of the École du Louvre and the National Heritage Institute, has been a curator in charge of contemporary photography at the National Library of France since 2014.

She has curated several exhibitions there, including French Landscapes, a Photographic Adventure (2017), Denis Brihat, Nature of Things (2019), Ruins, Josef Koudelka (2020), Photography at All Costs: A Year of Photography Awards at the BnF (2021), and This World That Watches Us: The Fifteen Years of the NOOR Agency (2022).

Marc Donnadieu

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Marc Donnadieu is an art critic, researcher, teacher, and independent exhibition curator.

A member of ICOM since 2010, he was chief curator at Photo Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland) from 2017 to 2023, curator of contemporary art at the LaM Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art, and Art Brut of Lille Métropole from 2010 to 2017, and director of FRAC Haute-Normandie from 1999 to 2010.

A member of AICA France since 1997, he regularly contributes to Art Press and The Art Newspaper. He has also contributed to numerous works in fine arts, photography, architecture, design, and fashion. He has curated exhibitions focused on the notion of commitment, the construction of contemporary identities and bodies, the pictorial field, drawing practices, the relationship between photography and art brut, and the connections between art and architecture.

Anne Lacoste

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Anne Lacoste, a graduate of a business school and PhD in art history, has been the director of the Institute for Photography of Hauts-de-France since its creation in 2018. After five years of experience at Christie’s in Paris and London, she began her curatorial career in the Photography Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2005. She was then a curator for exhibitions at Photo Elysée in Lausanne from 2011 to 2017.

Her exhibition and publication projects cover the history of photography, including monographs on Felice Beato, the Nadar family, Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Philippe Halsman, and Martine Franck, with a particular interest in contemporary photography. Her areas of study also extend to diverse photographic forms—Photomaton, the history of slides, photographic books—as well as various uses of photography, such as in archaeology, iconographic collections, and in the works of graphic designer Wojciech Zamecznik and artist Jean Dubuffet.

Chantal Nedjib

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A lawyer by training, Chantal Nedjib began her career in ministerial offices as an attaché at the Ministry of Industry and Research, the Ministry of Culture and the Environment, and then the Ministry of Environment and Living Conditions. She gained communication experience in public sector organizations and communication agencies. She joined HSBC France (formerly CCF) in 1984 as head of the press department and became Director of Communications from 1989 to 2010. A member of the bank's Executive Committee, she also served as General Delegate of the HSBC Photography Award, which she created in 1995 and led for 15 years.

Passionate about photography and brands, she decided to create her consulting firm, "L’image par l’image," in 2010, to strengthen the link between photography and businesses for more impactful communication.

Chantal Nedjib is a member of the professional association Entreprises et Médias, where she served on the board for several years. She has participated in communication courses and led seminars at Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne.

She is a Knight of the National Order of Merit and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Guillaume Piens

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An art historian by training, organizer, and artistic director of cultural events, as well as an art collector, Guillaume Piens has worked for FIAC and Paris Photo, where he became director in 2008. For Paris Photo, he authored the "Trilogy of the East," with Japan invited in 2008, the Arab world and Iran in 2009, and Central Europe in 2010.

In 2011, he founded his own cultural event production company, "Culture Squad Communication." He was the artistic advisor of the 1st Saint-Germain-des-Prés Photo Festival from 2011 to 2013. Since 2012, he has been the general commissioner of Art Paris, the springtime event for modern and contemporary art at the Grand Palais in Paris.

"Photographing with a large-format camera means favoring composition through the inversion of the image, a technique inherent to the Camera Clara. It is also a celebration of slowness. The extended exposure time acts as a long decantation of reality, fostering a singular contemplative style, contrary to the shallow and decorative plasticity that threatens contemporary photography."

Michel Poivert

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Michel Poivert is a Professor of Art History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he founded the chair of photography history. He is also a critic and exhibition curator. In 2018, he founded the International College of Photography, dedicated to the transmission and experimentation of photographic skills. His publications include La Photographie Contemporaine (Flammarion, 2018), 50 Years of French Photography from 1970 to Today (Textuel, 2019), and Counterculture in Contemporary Photography (Textuel, 2022).

He has curated exhibitions such as "The Event: Images as Agents of History" (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007), "Gilles Caron Paris 1968" (Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 2018), and "French Photography: A Metamorphosis 1968–1989" (Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, 2022).

Fabien Simode

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Fabien Simode is the director of the Maisons-Alfort media libraries and an art critic. After studying art history and sociology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he joined a specialized press agency in 2000, where he managed editorial content for corporate journals and magazines.

In 2006, he joined the editorial team of L’Œil magazine as deputy editor, before becoming editor-in-chief in 2011, a position he held until May 2023. A radio and TV commentator, he contributed to La Compagnie des œuvres on France Culture (2019–2021) and La Matinale de TSF Jazz, where he provided a weekly art column from 2019 to 2023, and since September 2023, focuses on books and reading.

Fabien Simode also created "L’art entre les lignes" with the National Institute of Art History, a program on current art books that he presented from 2021 to 2023 at the Richelieu Quadrilateral's Labrouste Hall. He is the author of catalog texts on photographer Leonora Hamill, painters Philippe Favier and Lydie Arickx, and installation artists Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil.