Public Prize 2025 - Circulations

Each year, the Prix du Public rewards the visitor’s favorite of the photographers on show.

After several hours of counting and more than 2608 votes cast, we are delighted to announce that the winner of this 15th edition is Sama Beydoun, for her series Langue maternelle! The artist immerses us in her Lebanese family history, where cooking is a precious heritage. This multidisciplinary work combines photography, video, ceramics, recipes and personal accounts.

As winner of the Prix du Public 2025, the artist will receive a €500 prize to be redeemed on the website of WhiteWall photo lab, a partner of the festival for the past four editions, which is also supporting the production of our focus.

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Thank you all for taking part in this prize and supporting your favorite artists – the votes were very close!
Congratulations to the artists who complete this exceptional podium:

2. Artem Humilevskyi — Roots
3. Jakob Ganslmeier et Ana Zibelnik — Bereitschaft
4. Claudia Fuggetti — Metamorphosis

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“This photo-film is the restitution of a work started in 2020, when I left Lebanon. At the time, I was documenting my confined relationship with my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, whom I left due to the country’s situation. This matriarchy has a strong bond: food. In 2022-23, I called on Lebanese in Paris, asking them to make me an inherited recipe. I was received in their intimate spaces to talk about this bond with food. If the recipe came from the person’s mother, I met her so she could cook the same dish for me and tell me her version of the story. The mothers and grandmothers were sometimes in France, sometimes in Lebanon. The cooking was the bridge across the distance.” — SB

In partnership with WhiteWall