The Rencontres d'Arles are launching the call for applications for the 2025 Discovery Prize, which will be part of the 56th edition of the festival.

Its aim is to promote the work of the selected artists who will exhibit in the Discovery Prize exhibition; and to reward the winning projects with the jury prize, worth €15,000, and the public prize, worth €5,000.

Since 2021, the Rencontres d'Arles have associated with the Discovery Prize the organizations that support emerging artists: associative spaces, independent places, run-space artists, exhibition spaces with hybrid forms; galleries; institutions; foundations (...) which carry out real pioneering work, identify and support artists.
These organizations, which are important players who defend photography and artists, thus act as relays, discoverers, to present to the Discovery Prize artists whose work they have identified, followed, and/or supported.

These structures can propose for the Discovery Prize an exhibition project of an artist they defend; and whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be discovered by an international audience.

The projects selected to be exhibited at the next edition of the Rencontres d'Arles, as part of the Discovery Prize exhibition, will be accompanied by the festival team and an exhibition curator invited by Les Rencontres d'Arles.

During the opening week, a jury appointed by the festival will award the Prix Découverte jury prize, which rewards an artist and the structure supporting the project through the acquisition of works worth €15,000; and the public will award the Public Prize, which rewards an artist and the structure/organization supporting the project through the acquisition of works worth €5,000.