PARIS.- With the fotoprize, fotofever promotes young artists and highlights the talents of tomorrow. This contest is opened to graduates of French art schools and offers them the opportunity to unleash their creativity through the medium of photography. For this 4th edition, fotofever is pleased to reveal the name of the 2015 winner: Juliette-Andréa ELIE.

The selection committee, composed of Nathalie Gallon (artistic director), Ericka Weidmann (Head Editor of L’Oeil de la Photographie), Laure Fauvel (2014 winner), Baudoin Lebon (Gallery Owner), Éric Karsenty (Head Editor at Fisheye), Olivier Conan (President of coandco Agency) and Jean-François Camp (CEO of the Laboratoire Central Dupon Images), met on March 30th and selected JulietteAndréa Elie’s Fading Landscapesseries among over sixty candidates.

In her series Fading Landscapes, inspired by her travels, Juliette-Andréa reveals how one’s travel memories influences the landscapes from which she produces distorted pictorial images. By a subtle play of photographic overlays, forms arise from the image. Photographs printed on tracing paper and embossed drawings creates a halo of ghostly and nebulous forms, which materializes the atmosphere. These translucent images question the photographic medium to reveal the passing of time and the changing of the worlds. Juliette- Andréa Elie positions herself in a plastic approach which reaches beyond the captured moment: through her prints on tracing paper which are then worked with a dry point, each image becomes unique.

Born in 1985, Juliette-Andréa graduated from L’Ecole Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts of Nantes Métropole (2010) and of the Concordia University of Montréal. Finalist in 2014 of the Prix de l’Audace Artistique of the Fondation Culture & Diversité, she is a resident since September of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her unique eye was noticed at the Festival de la Jeune Photographie Europénne Circulation(s).

By winning the 2015 edition of fotoprize, she will be able to unleash her creativity thanks to the generous offers by fotofever distinguished fotoprize partners:

• a significant exhibition space at the 4th edition of fotofever paris where she will have carte blanche to curate her own exhibition

• quality prints produced by the Laboratoire Central Dupon Images

• her portfolio published by the Fisheye magazine

• online daily L’Oeil de la Photographiewill publish her work

• a personal video will be produced by coandco agency

• the cover page of the fotobook and the fotofever 2015 catalogue co-edited with Snoeck editions

• a solo exhibition early 2016 at the prestigious gallery Baudoin Lebon