HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Since 2015, the Human Rights Photography Prize is awarded each year to a student or alumnus of an art school for the quality and originality of his/her photography project covering a topic related to current human rights issues. Through this distinction, Act On Your Future aims to stimulate the artistic reflection of art students on current societal issues. Our goal is to leverage the strong potential of image to raise awareness among the general public. We see photography as the perfect tool for artistic expression as it has the potential to create synergies between different and often fragmented environments. It conveys its message to an audience with a spontaneous, universal and accessible language - in many ways transcending intellectual constraints and roadblocks associated with these issues.
OBJECTIVES
WINNER AND FINALISTS
The jury deliberates in two rounds. At the end of the first round, it selects five projects. In the second round, it will select the winner who may choose of the two following options as a prize:
The works of the winner and the four finalists will be exhibited at the Art Bärtschi & Cie gallery in Geneva from 7 to 16 December 2017.
For further information: hello@actonyourfuture.org
OBJECTIVES
- To provide students and alumnus with the opportunity to work on an art project covering current social and political issues and resulting in a socially engaged artwork.
- To encourage critical thinking within art schools.
- To support young artists by promoting their work on various platforms (collective exhibition, traveling exhibition, exhibit book, networks of our foundation and its partners, etc.).
- To create synergies between sectors.
- To raise awareness among the general public about human rights in an innovative way.
WINNER AND FINALISTS
The jury deliberates in two rounds. At the end of the first round, it selects five projects. In the second round, it will select the winner who may choose of the two following options as a prize:
- He/she will be awarded a grant equal to CHF 10,000 (ten thousand Swiss francs) to be devoted exclusively to the preparation of an exhibit (materials and production) designed entirely as a continuation of the photographs for which the 2017 Prize was awarded. The choice of the place and dates of that exhibit will be up to AYF.
- He/she may also elect to receive CHF 5,000 (five thousand Swiss francs) in cash to use as he/she wishes.
The works of the winner and the four finalists will be exhibited at the Art Bärtschi & Cie gallery in Geneva from 7 to 16 December 2017.
For further information: hello@actonyourfuture.org