About
In 2009, while media and photojournalism faced an unprecedented crisis, the Fondation Carmignac created the Carmignac Photojournalism Award to support photographers in the field.
Every year, it funds the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations and geo-strategic issues in the world. The Fondation provides the laureate with human and financial resources to carry out their project and produces both a monograph and a traveling exhibition, aiming to shed light on the crises and challenges which the contemporary world is facing.
Every year, the Carmignac Collection is enriched by four photos from these reports.
The Fondation Carmignac was founded in 2000 by Edouard Carmignac, a French entrepreneur, CEO and Chairman of asset management company Carmignac.
Today, it is structured around three main pillars which developed one after the other : the Carmignac Collection, which owns over 300 works of contemporary art, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the Villa Carmignac in Porquerolles which offers temporary exhibitions and a rich cultural programme in a 2000-square-meter art space set in a 15-hectare estate at the heart of a protected site.
