Above image by Amaury Da Cunha nominated for the Voies Off Prize 2009

For 15 years, the Voies Off Prize has been awarded by a jury of renowned professionals to an artist for the clarity of his vision and the high quality of his work.
Voies Off night projections taking place the opening week of the famous photography festival Rencontres d’Arles (first full week in July) have become an international reference for the discovery of emerging authors and the alternative venue that it creates for international photographic creation. Over twenty different nationalities are represented at each festival. Every year over sixty candidates are selected for the programme of the night-projections.
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 2,000 Euros. The selection is based on the submissions which present a personal and original work in which an expression of an author vision is revealed.
The call for entries is open to everyone interested in photography who presents a series (amateurs, students, professionals from all over the world) and the fees are 25 Euros.