Since 1998, Bourse du Talent has been rewarding the talent of young artists in the field of photography by supporting emerging photography every year.
This event, organised by Photographie.com and Picto Foundation, has over the years become a key event dedicated to the recognition of emerging talent.

In 2023, after 25 editions that have brought to light and encouraged numerous photographers who are now well known, the time has come to update the programme with a view to constantly bringing it into line with the proposals and expectations of contemporary photographers.

Bourse du Talent is now focusing on the new documentary approaches called for by young photographers to continue to tell the story of our world while incorporating the evolution of the forms and constraints of image mediation.
At a time when press photography tends to be projected onto screens rather than printed on paper, and when emerging photographers are broadly aligning their projects in a plurality of media and writing styles, Bourse du Talent continues to be a mouthpiece for all these new documentary expressions.

Bourse du Talent also continues to play its role as a springboard for the professionalization of photographers, to encourage their career paths at the heart of the photography market.

Each year, two or three Bourses du Talent are awarded to photographers whose projects are based on new documentary approaches, whether it be an artistic approach, science, literature or any other cross-disciplinary aspect at the service of the story, or the use of innovative technologies to accompany the narrative expression.
Bourse du Talent is open to photographers of all nationalities, open to all subjects and expressions, and encourages environmentally responsible and engaged approaches.

• The production of an exhibition that will be presented for several months at the BnF, François Mitterrand site, a prestigious venue where major names in photography are regularly exhibited, and which benefits from exceptional visibility.

• With the help of Picto Foundation, the PICTO laboratories will produce the prints of the winners, ensure their installation and removal.

• Pixxtrak offers a subscription for the protection of the moral and economic rights of photographers.

• One of the three laureates will benefit from Bourse du Talent Saif worth 4000€.

• The works of the winners will become part of the common and universal heritage, and part of the history of photography.
A significant set of prints exhibited at BnF, whose production is offered by PICTO, will join the collections of BnF’s Department of Prints and Photography, under legal deposit (Cf. articles L131-1 to L133-1 and R131-1 to R133-1 of the Heritage Code, as supplemented by decrees from 1995, 1996 and 2006.).

• The diffusion of photographers’ work through a promotion encouraging meetings with professionals in the sector.

• Picto Foundation’s support and advice for award-winning photographers rewarded for their research and approach.

• A voucher offered by PICTO to the laureates, allowing them to engage with the laboratories’ experts.
Image: © Santanu Dey. Lauréat de la Bourse du Talent 2025