“Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective” at London’s Saatchi Gallery is the first time that the work of all six laureates of the prize has been presented in a retrospective exhibition.The award was launched by the Carmignac Foundation in 2009 with the aim of supporting and celebrating photojournalism. Documentary photographers and photojournalists from around the world are invited to submit long-term reportage on a specific theme. Each year the award funds an emerging photographer to visit areas of the world at the centre of conflicts. The winning laureate is offered 50,000 euros to go into the field, with financing for a monograph, and an international touring exhibition upon his or her return.Presented across two rooms, the exhibition features 40 works.The first room is dedicated to Iranian photojournalist and fifth laureate, Newsha Tavakolian, whose project “explores the lives of young middle-class Iranians caught between the pressures of an increasingly modern society and a revolutionary Islamic ideology.”The second room includes contributions on the theme of Chechnya by the fourth laureate, Davide Monteleone; on Zimbabwe by the third laureate, Robin Hammond; on Pashtunistan by the second laureate, Massimo Berruti; and on Gaza by the first laureate, Kai Wiedenhöfer.At the end of the exhibition, the incumbent laureate, Christophe Gin, who worked to the theme of Lawless Areas in France, introduces his series about Guiana, Colonie (Colony) with a single photograph of France. An exhibition dedicated to this series will be presented at the Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris.“Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective” is at the Saatchi Gallery until December 13
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