Prix HSBC pour la Photographie

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie supports little-known professional artists by helping them to promote their work. Each year, the Prix HSBC sponsors two young contemporary photographers striving to capture the real world on film. There are no pre-requisites as to age or nationality.

Support to today's generation of budding photographers

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie is chaired by Peter Boyles, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC France. Christine Raoult, HSBC France Deputy Head of Public Relations is the Executive Director of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie.

The Prix HSBC is committed to providing continuous support to today's generation of budding photographers. Every year, two artists are chosen through a rigorous selection process and their work is promoted to a wide audience.

Candidates are selected through an annual contest held by the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie from October to December. The Artistic Consultant is responsible for pre-selecting a dozen finalists. The Executive Committee then selects the two winning candidates by secret ballot.

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie supports the work of its two laureates through:
• Organising, within 18 months of selecting the two laureates, joint exhibitions
• Co-publishing the first monograph of each of the laureates in collaboration with the publisher Actes Sud, in the “Collection du Prix HSBC pour la Photographie”; the choosing of the photos is carried out with the laureate under the supervision of the Artistic Director of the collection and the Artistic Adviser for that year.
• Guaranteeing the acquisition of at least six pieces by HSBC France for a total of 5,000 euros, to be added to its private photography collection.

2011 Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is made up of representatives of HSBC and qualified artistic professionals. The Committee is responsible for selecting an Artistic Consultant, choosing the two winning artists and validating the actions undertaken by the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie.

The following people are members of the 2011 Executive Committee:

Peter BOYLES - Chief Executive Officer, HSBC France

Christophe de BACKER – Deputy Chief Executive Officer, HSBC France

Joy HENDERIKS - Head of Public Relations, HSBC France

Philippe HENRY – Head of Corporate Customers, HSBC France

Christophe LELAIT – Regional Head of CMB, Sud Rhône-Alpes, HSBC France

Jonathan MULLEN – Head of Communication, HSBC France

Philippe PONTET - Chairman of the Investments Banking, HSBC France

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Patrick de CAROLIS – Former Chairman of France Télévisions

Christian CAUJOLLE - Writer, journalist, founder of the VU Agency and Gallery, France

Francis CHARHON – Executive Director of the Fondation de France

Henry-Claude COUSSEAU – Head of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

Agnès de GOUVION SAINT-CYR – General Inspector for Photography at the French Ministry of Culture - Plastic Arts Division

Renaud DONNEDIEU de VABRES - Former Minister, Advisor of Alexandre Allard for the strategy and the culture.

Chantal NEDJIB – Head of Chantal Nedjib Conseil

Zoé VALDES – Journalist, writer, producer - Lunaticas Productions

Artistic Consultant

The Artistic Consultant assists the Prix HSBC in its decisions by pre-selecting a dozen finalists from among the initial pool of candidates. The Artistic Consultant is chosen each year by the Executive Committee in order to provide an outside perspective capable of revealing new talent.

2011, Agnès Sire, Director and exhibition organiser at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

2010, Bernard Marcelis, Historian by training, art critic and exhibition organiser

2009, Olivier Saillard, Director of fashion exhibitions at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris

2008, Chantal Grande – Owner and Chairman of the gallery FORVM in Tarragone (Spain)

2007, Alain Sayag – Curator of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, in charge of photography

2006, Gilles Mora, Manager of the photography collection for Editions du Seuil

2005, Oliva Maria Rubio, Head of Exhibitions at Fabricà (Madrid)

2004, Carol Brown, a specialist in contemporary art

2003, Giovanna Calvenzi, Head of Photography for Sportweek

2002, Robert Delpire, Head of the Photo Poch Collection and Managing Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, editor

2001, Alain D’Hooghe, Photo journalist, exhibition curator, and professor of history and photography

2000, Jacqueline d’Amecourt, Curator of the Lhoist Collection

1999, Alain Mingam, former Editor-in-chief of photography at Sygma, Gamma and Le Figaro

1998, Jérôme Sans, art critic and exhibition curator

1997, François Hébel, Manager of the "Rencontres d'Arles"

1996, Christian Caujolle, Manager of the photographer agency “Vu”

The 2012 Contest

The application form will be on line from the 3rd of october 2011.
The candidate can submit the completed application between November 3rd and 30th (included), 2011, by post only to the following address:

Prix HSBC pour la Photographie
Concours 2012
11 bis rue Vernet
75008 Paris
France

Contact: +33 (0)1 40 70 27 13 - e-mail: concours.prix@hsbc.fr.

Terms of participation in the annual contest organised by the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie.

The Prix’s Executive Committee selects the prize-winning photographers of the year, based on the following criteria:

• The competition is open to contemporary, living photographers, of any age or nationality
• They must focus on the representation of reality, no matter what their approach or working methods are
• They must not have already published a monograph

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie will not consider any requests concerning works involved in projects where prizes and grants already exist.

Selection criteria

The executive committee of the Prix HSBC selects the two laureates for the year. This is done after a rigorous selection process, with the assistance of an artistic adviser, who chooses a dozen folders submitted by the candidates of the year, and submits them to the committee. The committee finally votes by secret ballot to select two laureates.

Candidates must also be able to provide, if selected, at least 70 photographs to appear in a monographic book.

How to apply
 
The candidate must submit a folder including:

• 15 to 20 photographs (unframed paper prints, film or digital), maximum size 30x40 cm
• A short text presenting the work.
• A curriculum vitae (address and phone number, skills, completed work, exhibitions...).
• A CD including the pictures in JPEG format, HD and Low definition, with captions if possible, a copy of the CV (not PDF format) and of the introductory text.
• The application form, duly filled in and signed (click to download).

Proposed partnership

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie supports the work of its two laureates through:

• Organising, within 18 months of selecting the two laureates, joint exhibitions
• Co-publishing the first monograph of each of the laureates in collaboration with the publisher Actes Sud, in the “Collection du Prix HSBC pour la Photographie”; the choosing of the photos is carried out with the laureate under the supervision of the Artistic Director of the collection and the Artistic Adviser for that year.
• Guaranteeing the acquisition of at least six pieces by HSBC France for a total of 5,000 euros, to be added to its private photography collection.

Commitments

A formal agreement detailing all reciprocal commitments will be signed between the winning artists and the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie. The agreement will specify that certain photographs, selected by the winning artist in conjunction with the Artistic Consultant and the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, may be used in exhibitions over the course of the year of cooperation between the Prix HSBC and the winning artists, in the following contexts:

• production of a monographic book presenting the artists’ work,
• the website of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie and the websites of its partners,
• any other forms of promotion, i.e. press, presentation document.

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie may ask for more contracts allowing further use of the laureate’s photographs to promote the laureate’s work.

The candidate (and his/her representative, if any), shall be informed of the terms implied by the partnership and accepts them in advance in case of selection as one of the 2012 laureates.
The candidate has to agree to the terms set out in the document “ Candidate’s undertakings" (and "Undertakings of the candidate's representative's, if any"), by filling in and signing the forms.

The  2011 laureates - Alinka Echeverria et Xiao Zhang – will be displaying their work :

• From May, 18th to July 23rd, at the gallery Le Réverbère in Lyon
  http://www.galerielereverbere.com
• From September 6th to September 23rd at the Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris
  www.baudoin-lebon.com
• From Sepember 30th to October 30th at the gallery l'Arsenal in Metz
• From November 8th to November 30th at Maison de la Photographie  in Lille
  http://www.maisonphoto.com