Anni Leppälä, Jaana Maijala and Nelli Palomäki at Les Rencontres d'Arles

Jaana Maijala
Hermanni, 2010
from the series The Weight of Experience
Lambda-print, Diasec
100 x 210 cm, Triptych
Edition of 5 + 2 AP

Duration: 02.07.-23.09.2012

Venue: Different venues, Arles, France

Opening hours: Every day 10-19h

Further informations: www.rencontres-arles.com

The Helsinki artists Anni Leppälä, Jaana Maijala and Nelli Palomäki are nominated by Jyrki Parantainen, Professor of Contemporary Art Photography for the Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, for the Discovery Award 2012 at Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012.

Press text:

For ten years now the LUMA Foundation has been backing the Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award and the Contemporary and Historical Book Awards. This year brings a new era in the collaboration between the Foundation and the Rencontres: with a subsidy of 180,000 € for the programming, production and organisation of the Discovery Award exhibition and prize-giving ceremony, LUMA is reaffirming its commitment to creative photography and its practitioners.

The Discovery Award goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be. Every year a panel of directors and teachers from major photography schools is chosen to nominate candidates for the award. Each candidate is given a solo exhibition in the Parc des Ateliers and the winner is chosen at a public vote by photography professionals during the professional week. The winner receives 25,000 €.