GRANT
RONAN GUILLOU

CIVIS MARITIMUS PROGRAM

The Ronan Guillou Grant is launched as part of the CIVIS MARITIMUS program, which aims to explore the relationship between Man and the Sea, and to challenge the essential issues facing the Ocean.

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!

In 2025, with the support of the city of Sète and M28 lands of culture, one grant for photographic creation will be offered to professional European photographer and photographer from the southern shores of the Mediterranean.

For its 3rd edition, CIVIS MARITIMUS is inviting two European photographers and/or photographers from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to produce a photographic project based on the same territory – the Occitanie region – and focusing on social, cultural, ecological and/or heritage issues linking human beings and the marine world.

The awarded photographer will receive an endowment of €4,000 and a two-month residency in Sète from May 5th to July 5th, 2025 to complete his or her project, a partial restitution will be organized in September 2025.

The 3rd edition of the Ronan Guillou grant is supported by the town of Sète and M28 lands of culture.

SCHEDULE

Call for entries: January 13 to March 16, 2025
Jury: March, 2025
Winner announcement: Early Ma, 2025 (the winner will be informed earlier)
Residence in Sète: May 5th to July 5th, 2024

Ronan Guillou, “Civis Maritimus, Favignana”, 2021

Civis maritimus, literally the Citizen of the Seas, is a long-term project conceived in synergy with the photographer Ronan Guillou, who died in 2022. Sailor and European at heart, the photographer wanted to undertake his own odyssey along the Mediterranean coast. Ronan Guillou was seeking, as he put it, to detect the discreet surreality that emanates from the ordinary. The Ronan Guillou Fellowships, created as part of the CIVIS MARITIMUS program, extend this quest by examining man’s relationship with the marine world from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other.