The jury of the Prix Levallois 2019 was :
Stéphane Decreps Deputy Mayor for cultural affairs, ville de Levallois
He created 17 years ago with Mark Grosset, the Photo Levallois festival, with the aim of providing to a large audience, the diversity of contemporary photography. The festival was an opportunity to bring to the attention of the french audience photographers such as Rip Hopkins, and some great names of american photography : Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel and Jan Groover. As a continuation of the festival, he created in 2008 the prix Levallois in order to support young photographers.
Marion Hislen Commissioner for photography, French Minister of Culture, General Direction of Artistic Creation
Specialist curator of photography (the "104", "Festival Circulation(s)", the "Rencontres Photographiques du 10e"), with a Masters degree in sociology, she founded the ‘Fetart’ association in 2005 with the aim of promoting young photographic artists. She also founded and directed the "Festival Circulation(s)", and was responsible for cultural activities regarding books and photography at Fnac.
Rip Hopkins Photographer and sponsor of the Prix Levallois
Graduated from the ENSCI, Paris in 1996, he began taking photographs at an early age. For almost 10 years he worked in collaboration with Doctors without Borders to produce reports and documentaries on at-risk populations. From the year 2000 onwards he began to take on new artistic challenges, developing his own personal projects and putting them into practice through exhibitions and publications.
He is a member of Agence VU' and he is represented by the galerie Le Réverbère since 2002.
Anne Lacoste Director of the Institut pour la photographie
Anne Lacoste has a PhD in Art History. She began her career as a curator at the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2005. Then she was Exhibitions Curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne from 2011 to 2017. Her exhibitions and publications have covered the history of photography with monographs on Felice Beato, Paul Strand, Irving Penn and Philippe Halsman, and topics such as the portrait, contemporary American photography, the history of the slide, the Photo Booth, photographic collections and archives. She has been Director of the Institut pour la Photographie since 2017.
Caroline Stein Head of partnerships and curator of the Neuflize OBC Collection
Educated at the University of Western Brittany (Modern Literature) and the University of Paris 13 in Villetaneuse (Publishing). She began her career in 2003 at the Somogy publishing house as an editor of art books, before joining the collective ‘Tendance Floue’ with responsibility for cultural projects and partnerships. In 2012 she began working with the photographic laboratory Central Dupon Images to promote cultural collaboration with institutional stakeholders. Then in 2017 she joined the private bank Neuflize OBC.
The jury of the Prix Levallois 2018 was :
Shérine Audi Collector
She joined Bank Audi France in 1980, and was appointed General Director in 2010. She is administrator of Bank Audi France since 2000, and Bank Audi Liban since 2016. She is interested in photography since 2000, and has formed a personal collection. In 2016 she joined the Photography Acquisition Comity in the Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art.
Éric Cez Publisher
He began his career in the contemporary art world (galleries, institutions, shows organisation, etc.) and cooperated for fifteen years with Marval publisher as coordinator of monographs of photographers and general books about photography.
In 2008, he founded with Anne Zweibaum, the company l’Atelier d’édition, producer of art books, and created Loco, his own publishing company within this firm, in 2011. Loco set up a catalog of contemporary photography books and art and social sciences cross-disciplinary books. The catalog offers today about 800 titles.
Héloïse Conésa Curator for Cultural Heritage in charge of the contemporary photography collection, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Previously Curator for Cultural Heritage at the MAMCS of Strasbourg, she joined the Bnf in 2014, where she works as co-curator for the following exhibitions : « Dans l'Atelier de la Mission photographique de la DATAR" (Arles, 2017) and "Paysages français : une aventure photographique (1984-2017)" ( BnF, 2017). PhD in Art history, lecturer at the École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière, she writes for various publications about contemporary photographers.
Stéphane Decreps Deputy Mayor for cultural affairs, ville de Levallois
He created 17 years ago with Mark Grosset, the Photo Levallois festival, with the aim of providing to a large audience, the diversity of contemporary photography. The festival was an opportunity to bring to the attention of the french audience photographers such as Rip Hopkins, and some great names of american photography : Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel and Jan Groover. As a continuation of the festival, he created in 2008 the prix Levallois in order to support young photographers.
Sylvie Hugues Journalist and consultant for photography
She is the artistic co-director of the Festival du Regard and makes photo folio reviews for the MEP. She leads workshops and masterclass, participates in conferences, writes for several magazines and cooperates with the Camera Obscura gallery (Paris). In 1992, she took part to the creation of Réponses Photo magazine for which she worked as managing editor. Concurrently, she is a photographer and has published 2 books.
