Winner 2015
Yann Gross
Yann Gross is a graduate of ECAL, a school in which he then taught until 2012 before settling temporarily in Latin America. His work focuses on issues of identity and inter-culturality. Through photography and video, he questions the way in which humanity integrates or seeks its place in the world.
His work is regularly exhibited in many countries and in institutions such as the Fotostiftung Schweiz, the Musée de l'Elysée, the Rencontres d'Arles or the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris. His photographs have also been relayed in magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Zeit Magazine, Aperture, Colors, Frieze, Geo, National Geographic or Das Magazin.
His work is regularly exhibited in many countries and in institutions such as the Fotostiftung Schweiz, the Musée de l'Elysée, the Rencontres d'Arles or the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris. His photographs have also been relayed in magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Zeit Magazine, Aperture, Colors, Frieze, Geo, National Geographic or Das Magazin.
Tekoha, 2015
The tropical Savannah of Mato grosso do Sul, ancestral territory of the peoples of Guarani, Kaiwoá and Terena, has progressively been transformed into huge fields of transgenic plantations and livestock farming. During the twentieth century, indigenous populations were expelled from their territories and confined in protected areas.
In order to regain their lands (Tekoha in Guarani), the strategy used by Aboriginal people consisted in occupying areas of land which they believed to be theirs by building makeshift camps. These actions caused violent conflicts with the powerful landowners. The indigenous people baptised their method as « retomada », the take-over.
This series is a glance at the retomadas through the prism of the first indigenous Guarani rap group, the Brô MC’s, with which I have collaborated now for a few years.
The Tekoha series is integrated in a larger project that I am about to finish: The Jungle Book. The book will be published in July 2016. The release of the book will come along with an individual exhibition, The Jungle Show, at the Rencontre d’Arles.
In order to regain their lands (Tekoha in Guarani), the strategy used by Aboriginal people consisted in occupying areas of land which they believed to be theirs by building makeshift camps. These actions caused violent conflicts with the powerful landowners. The indigenous people baptised their method as « retomada », the take-over.
This series is a glance at the retomadas through the prism of the first indigenous Guarani rap group, the Brô MC’s, with which I have collaborated now for a few years.
The Tekoha series is integrated in a larger project that I am about to finish: The Jungle Book. The book will be published in July 2016. The release of the book will come along with an individual exhibition, The Jungle Show, at the Rencontre d’Arles.
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