Voies Off Prize awards emerging contemporary photographers. International open call for Voies Off, with successful photographers' work presented during the prestigious Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in France.

NOTE: the deadline is extended to March 10 2014

Voies Off night projections during the opening week of the rencontres d’Arles festival in France have become an international reference for the discovery of emerging artists.  Over twenty different nationalities are represented at each festival. Every year around sixty candidates are selected for the programme of the night-projections.  Voies Off offers an alternative approach to emerging contemporary photography, its particularities, its evolutions, and its areas of resistance.

The organisers emphasize that the Voies Off Prize represents a real springboard for a young photographer‘s career.  As well as individual submissions, it is possible for a school or a group of students to submit a collective application. See guidelines for details of participation fees.

Every July, the Voies Off prize is awarded by a jury of renowned professionals to an artist for the clarity of his/her vision and the high quality of his/her work. The current amount of the prize is 2,500 euros. Among the participants to the Voies Off prize, the SAIF awards 2,000 euros to an emerging talent in photography

The guidelines for applications are available for download in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.

Image: © Boris Eldagsen, winner of the 2013 Voies Off Prize