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The Revelation Prize aims to promote an inclusive, respectful, and ethical photography award for everyone.
The Revelation Prize aims to promote inclusive, respectful, and ethical photography, open to all, and to bring forward new perspectives in contemporary photography.
The Revelation Prize SAIF x LA KABINE supports emerging photographic creation by highlighting distinctive and original artistic projects. It aims to accompany and promote new voices in contemporary photography.
The prize awards the winner with a grant of €2,000.
A selection of 30 finalists will also be announced. Their work will be projected during La Nuit de l’Émergence, organized during the opening week of the OFF Arles Festival. Each finalist will receive €100 in copyright fees.
The winner will also benefit from an exhibition as part of the OFF Arles Festival the year following their selection.
- In 2025, the 2024 laureate, Elsa Beaumont, presented her project Le Bois de la Dauphine. In 2026, artist Nathyfa Michel will exhibit her project Dans ma chair, un pays.
OPEN CALL 2026
Applications for the 2026 edition are open from March 9 to March 29, 2026, at 11:59 PM (Paris time).
The Revelation Prize SAIF x LA KABINE invites photographers to submit their projects via the online application form
Application Procedures and Eligibility Criteria
The Prize is open to professional photographer-authors of all nationalities, aged 18 and over.
From 2025 onwards, membership in the La Kabine association became a mandatory requirement to apply for the Revelation Prize SAIF x LA KABINE. This membership is of a voluntary amount (minimum €5) and is valid for one calendar year.
Participants must submit a single application file before the deadline of March 29, 2026, at 11:59 PM (Paris time) via the dedicated form.
Submission File
The submission must be a single PDF file containing:
- Full name and title of the series
- A photographic series of 10 to 15 images
Finalistes 2025
BALABAN Ekaterina, BRUNETTI Nicolas, CAIMI Jean-Marc & PICCINNI Valentina, CORRION Claire, ELIPE Mahé, ERTÜRK Özge, FERROTTI Angela, GIRALT Ophélie, GODEFROY Eléa, GOSSET Marjorie, GRIGALASHVILI Natela, HENRY Anne-Charlotte, HODIESNE Lucie, JAOUDAT Mayssa, KOKLOVA Luma, LÊ Chau Cuong, LE BAHERS Goulven, MARTIN Antoine, MICHEL Nathyfa, OURAHOU Bahia, PAPAPIETRO Manuelle, PERRIN Arthur, PIALOT Lucas, POLI Filippo, RIEFFEL Martine, ROSCOT Bénédicte, SADOUN Kenia, TAKAGI Nobuyoshi, TOUZANI Maryam, TRAN KIÊU Kianuë, VERDIER Elisa
La lauréate 2025 Nathyfa Michel avec son projet : Dans ma chair, un pays
The 2025 Revelation Prize celebrates Nathyfa Michel and her series Dans ma chair, un pays: a journey into memory and the living world.
What does it mean to ‘belong’ when ancestors vanish and houses fall apart? In the gaps of transmissions disrupted by colonial history, ‘home’ is reinvented as an ecosystem connecting body, nature, and time. At the threshold of buried worlds, fog, minerals, and plants guide us toward hybrid networks, inviting us to breathe the world through our skin and become porous anchors to memory and healing.”
In 2025, among 460 applications, Nathyfa Michel won the prize with her series Dans ma chair, un pays.
Her work explores memory, the body, and history: a poetic and powerful journey into the intimate and the collective. Her work will be presented during the OFF Arles Festival 2026.
Finalistes 2024
ANHÈS Hugues, APPERT Jérémy, BEAUMONT Elsa, BISCEGLIA Laurie, BONNOT Sylvie, BOURGES Julie, CANOVA Francesco, DE SOUZA LIMA Beatriz, DENOUAL Antoine, DONNARS Olivier, DUAULT-DHALLENNE Axelle, GUSEVA Anna, JOLY Lewis, LANCTUIT Dimitri, LÊ VU France-Lan, LECOMTE Naïma, LIAUTAUD Juliette, LLINARES Elise & PERALDI Michel, LOUBAT Ophelie, MARTIN Antoine, MILLERAND Camille, MOURGLIA Jonathan, SANCHEZ Anita, SIRAUDEAU Sébastien, SHARROCK Chloe, SUAREZ Teresa, TOKUGAWA Ricardo, VALETTE Valentin Joseph, VELEZ Andrea, YAGHOBZADEH Rafael, ZAOIN Iman.
Jury 2024:
– Laura Lafon, directrice artistique de la photographie pour Gaze magazine
– Gilles Cargueray, éditeur aux Éditions Odyssée; consultant en projets photographiques
– Olivia Seigneurgens, directrice artistique du Festival InCadaqués
– Isabelle Habert, consultante photo indépendante et iconographe de la Saif Images
– Luce Lebart, historienne de la photographie et curatrice
– Julia de Bierre, fondatrice de la Galerie Huit Arles, curatrice indépendante
– Eric Karsenty, rédacteur en chef de Fisheye Magazine
– Sophie Léron, fondatrice de Permis de faire; présidente de Montpellier 2028
Far from the centers, far from the norms, some reinvent freedom at the margins. This photographic work reveals lives that our society often prefers to forget.
“Le Bois de la Dauphine, Elsa Beaumont
This photographic series is the second part of a project carried out within a community support association based in the Cévennes. Since its creation in 1985, the association has acquired abandoned sites to create welcoming spaces for marginalized people. The purpose of this work is to make visible the life trajectories that develop and express themselves at the margins of our society.
“I also perceive in it the experimentation of an alternative form of freedom invented by those rejected by the model in spaces left vacant because they are no longer profitable or exploitable.” This project was supported by the DRAC Occitanie.
Elsa Beaumont explores a documentary and social approach to photography, building an artistic body of work through the organic interplay of light and matter. Her long-term projects unite in the image intimate territories—the inner worlds of people excluded or marginalized from society. Her photographs break down boundaries of representation and challenge prejudices, creating a sensitive connection to others and the different, revealing all their complexity and light.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, she is a laureate of the Revelation Prize SAIF x La Kabine, the Maison Blanche Prize, and received a special mention from the FOCALE Prize. She has also been a finalist for the Mentor Prize and the QPN Prize. Her photographs are regularly exhibited and projected.