Cécile Smetana Charles Thiefaine OPEN CALL January 13 to March 16, 2025 Ronan Guillou grant #3: Man and the marine world around Sète, Etang de Thau and the Gulf of Lion. Photographers from Europe and the southern shores of the Mediterranean, you have a project associating man and the marine world, apply for the 3rd edition of the Ronan Guillou Grant, 4000€ to realize a project between Sète, Etang de Thau and the Gulf of Lion! In 2025, with the support of the city of Sète and M28 terres de culture, a photographic creation grant is offered to professional European photographers and those from the southern shores of the Mediterranean. Based on the same territory – the Occitanie region – CIVIS MARITIMUS invites, for its third edition, a photographer to produce a photographic project addressing social, cultural, ecological and/or heritage issues linking human beings and the marine world. The project

Khashayar Javanmardi Stéphanie Lacombe OPEN CALL January 15 to May 18, 2025 Eyes Wide Open launches the third edition of the 1st Photo Book Grants, aimed at photographers wishing to propose a 1st book project with the support of an independent French publisher. 3 grants worth €5,000 will be awarded to the winners and their publisher: SAIF grant for a French photographer or a photographer living in France Grant dedicated to a woman photographer of any nationality Dedicated to a photographer from a Global South territory (Africa, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Middle East). A program designed and organized by Eyes Wide Open and supported by the French Ministry of Culture and SAIF. I PARTICIPATE RULES

À PROPOS DES LÉAURÉATES CHIARA INDELICATO Née en 1987 en Italie, est une artiste indépendante partageant son temps entre l’Italie et la France. Après une première carrière dans la mode et le branding, elle a choisi de se consacrer entièrement à la photographie en 2019. Son travail actuel se concentre principalement sur l’expérimentation de procédés photographie argentique alternatifs en harmonie avec sa pratique et ses recherches sur la documentation de territoires isolés. « L’ARCHIPEL » L’Occitanie, terre de poésie et de légendes autour de son étang de Thau, inspire une exploration artistique des liens avec la mer, mettant en lumière les enjeux écologiques actuels. À travers cette résidence artistique, l’artiste aspire à raconter une histoire, à la fois visuelle et textuelle, où la poésie de l’imaginaire rencontre des thèmes importants comme l’écologie et le futur menacé par la montée des eaux autour des territoires de Sète, l’Étang de Thau et le

BEIRUTOPIARanda Mirza Randa Mirza, winner of the Bourses du 1er livre photo, exhibits her “Beirutopia” series at Rencontres d’Arles from July 1 to September 29! The book “Beirutopia”, published by Le Bec en l’Air, is a powerful visual essay on the socio-political and urban transformation of the Lebanese capital. The book is divided into seven parts, chronologically covering the series that Randa Mirza produced over twenty years in Beirut. The images of this protean visual artist are multi-faceted: black-and-white slides, silver photographs, digital prints, video screen captures, montages and collages. Unpublished texts by Randa Mirza and curator and writer Rasha Salti complete this visual approach. Other texts by Lebanese authors selected by the photographer from the abundant existing literature on Beirut, providing an insight into the city’s history. Eyes Wide Open is delighted to support Randa Mirza’s project as part of the 1st Photo Book Grants program (2023 edition). Supported

AGORA CIVIS MARITIMUS Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30 p.m. Halle Tropisme, Montpellier MARINE LANIER Born in Valence in 1981, photographer Marine LanierBorn into a family of horticulturists and sailors, she focuses on questions of life, clan structure, bonding and the call of adventure. Marine Lanier will take us on a journey at the crossroads of her two latest series, Hannibal’s garden and The shipwreck suit. The first takes place in the Jardin du Lautaret, perched at 2100 m, Europe’s highest altitude garden and a unique conservatory for the diversity of Alpine flora. The second takes the form of a maritime tale of groves and oceanic bestiaries, tortured sailors, silent nights, monstrous waves and mysterious depths.image © Manier Lanier “Hannibal’s garden”These photographs were produced as part of the major national commission “Radioscopie de la France: regards sur un pays traversé par la crise sanitaire”, financed by the French Ministry of Culture