Double Prix Niépce Gens d'images Bicentenaire

A Prix Niépce Gens d’images on the occasion of the Bicentenary of Photography, in the form of a double Prize

For the 2027 edition, the Prix Niépce Gens d’images is exceptionally adapted to include a second prize dedicated to young authors, without calling into question the standards and framework of the historic prize.

We keep a Prix Niépce for professional photographers, but we limit the number of applications through a restricted number of qualified personalities, 10 for the 2027 edition.

We are introducing a 2nd prize in 2027 titled: Prix Jeunes Gens d’images.

The Prix Jeune Gens d’images is aimed at photography school graduates, more specifically young people who will have graduated from their photography school in the summer of 2026 and will therefore have entered the workforce.

10 candidates are mentored by the 10 professional photographers (themselves nominated by qualified personalities).

Candidates are chosen from among all 2026 graduates of the schools. The trio formed by school management, qualified personalities, and candidate professional photographers chooses their mentee.

We give priority to graduates from the class of 2026 because final-year students still receive significant guidance, whereas school graduates most often find themselves alone; addressing this category of post-graduates thus offers these young people another form of support at the start of their professional activity, a springboard for their beginnings as authors.

Points of attention:

The entire architecture of this double Prize, Prix Niépce Gens d’images and Prix Jeune Gens d’images, has received the Bicentenary of Photography label.

The winner of the Prix Jeune Gens d'images is not necessarily the mentee of the winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d'images.

The photographer mentoring a young person submits a genuine statement of intent detailing the young photographer's journey, thus embodying the concept of transmission underlying the entire initiative.

Two different juries will meet over two successive half-days to examine the applications. A first half-day will allow the jury to review the applications of the ten professional photographer candidates for the Prix Nièpce Gens d’images. A second half-day will allow the jury to review the applications of the ten young photographer candidates for the Prix Jeunes Gens d’images.

In the ten applications for the Prix Nièpce Gens d’images, there are ten portfolios of professional photographers who meet the conditions of the current regulations of the Prix Niépce Gens d’images, one of whom will be the winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d’images under current conditions (notably grant, exhibitions, etc.).

In the ten applications for the Prix Jeunes Gens d’images, there are ten portfolios of 2026 graduates of photography schools, one of whom will be the winner of the Prix Jeune Gens d’images under conditions to be defined for this special Prize, including:

- special grant taken from an exceptional Gens d’images budget of 1000 euros,

- participation in the BnF meeting and the Villa Pérochon exhibition, details of which follow in the other action sheets.