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Off-site Exhibitions Photo Elysée presents numerous off-site exhibitions thanks to collaborations initiated with internationally renowned public and private institutions. Photo Elysée is thus present through its exhibitions from Paris to New York, from Zurich to Beijing, from Lugano to Cape Town....

Collections

The Collections Taking inventories, cataloguing, documenting, studying, restoring, processing, conserving and digitising photography are among the museum’s primary missions. Its collections have been built up since the museum was created in 1985, and reflect the institution’s own history with numerous acquisitions made related to the exhibitions it has programmed. From...

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Contact Photo Elysée Fondation Platefome 10 Chemin de Mornex 3bis, 1003 Lausanne Tél. 41 21 316 99 11 info@elysee.ch Date Last update : 10.21.2021...

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Prix Elysée The Prix Elysée is a two-phase prize to support creative work, in which the work-in-progress of 8 nominees and the winner’s finalized project are all promoted (publication and/or exhibition and/or installation, etc.). The prize is open to photographers and artists who use photography in their practice, regardless of...

2021 Edition

Winner Kurt Tong For his project Dear Franklin "I was given a sealed trunk following the death of a friend’s neighbour a couple of years back. Aside from the huge archive of photographs, there were books, notebooks, documents, but most interestingly, letters addressed to a man called Franklin Lung and...

2019 Edition

Winner Luis Carlos Tovar For his project My Father's Garden "The starting point for this project is a photograph that reveals my father’s survival during his abduction by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in 1980. The photograph, a Polaroid hidden among the small myths of my family history,...

Previous editions

2015 Edition

Winner Martin Kollar For his project Provisional Arrangement "I grew up during Communism with its key motto „With the Soviet Union for all Eternity“. Back then, we would add, laughing: but not an hour longer. This has been, until this day, one of the few experiences I’ve had with eternity....