THE FOUNDATION
Founded in 2014, ACT ON YOUR FUTURE is a Swiss non-profit foundation based in Geneva that works to foster civic engagement among the next generation of socially active youth. Through social and cultural projects, the Foundation harnesses the power of visual arts to transform the way the youth learn about human rights and engage in social causes.
OUR PROJECTS
The Foundation currently undertakes three main projects: the Human Rights Photography Prize for young European artists, the Human Rights Watch Prize for high school students of the Geneva area, as well as cultural mediation activities to gather testimonies of refugees in Geneva.
HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
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NEWS FEED
WINNERS | HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020
The Act On Your Future Foundation is very pleased to announce the two tied winners of the fifth edition of the Human Rights Photography Prize on the theme "No Planet B: Human Rights in Times of Ecological Crisis":
Lowena Poole for Stop Time By Smashing Clocks (RCA/Royal College of Art, London)
Romain Roucoules for Global Solutions (ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne)
The winning projects will be exhibited at the Centre de la photographie Genève (CPG) from 27 October to 15 November 2020. Their work and that of the other finalists will also be included in the retrospective book that the Foundation will publish to mark the competition's five-year anniversary. Congratulations to the two winners!
The Act On Your Future Foundation is very pleased to announce the two tied winners of the fifth edition of the Human Rights Photography Prize on the theme "No Planet B: Human Rights in Times of Ecological Crisis":
Lowena Poole for Stop Time By Smashing Clocks (RCA/Royal College of Art, London)
Romain Roucoules for Global Solutions (ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne)
The winning projects will be exhibited at the Centre de la photographie Genève (CPG) from 27 October to 15 November 2020. Their work and that of the other finalists will also be included in the retrospective book that the Foundation will publish to mark the competition's five-year anniversary. Congratulations to the two winners!
DIGITAL PROGRAMME | HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020
Following the current health crisis, the format of the 2020 Human Rights Photography Prize has been adapted to present the finalists' projects online, via our platforms and those of our partners. The Foundation thus wished to pursue its mission of supporting young artists and raising awareness of human rights through art.
This new programme was based on a series of 7 videos produced by Mousqueterre, a collective that wishes to give meaning to the ecological and social transition through various audiovisual tools.
The videos of the digital programme are to be (re)discovered below:
This new programme was based on a series of 7 videos produced by Mousqueterre, a collective that wishes to give meaning to the ecological and social transition through various audiovisual tools.
The videos of the digital programme are to be (re)discovered below:
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FINALISTS | HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020
We are pleased to announce the names of the five projects selected by the Jury as finalists for the 2020 Human Rights Photography Prize:
We are pleased to announce the names of the five projects selected by the Jury as finalists for the 2020 Human Rights Photography Prize:
