The Fondation Carmignac is a Paris-based organization that bestows the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Awards, which are held yearly. It was established in 2000 by Édouard Carmignac. The organization has a publicly accessible art collection on Porquerolles Island in Var, France.
History Financier Édouard Carmignac established the corporate collection Fondation Carmignac in 2000. The collection is displayed at Carmignac Gestion's headquarters in Paris, as well as at its offices in London, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, and Zurich.
In the 1980s, Carmignac purchased a property in Porquerolles Island with 15 hectares of land. During a construction on the Island hired Architects, GM Architectes Associés encountered struggles building on the protected land, so they created 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) of underground exhibition space.Caroline Roux (June 22, 2018), Fondation Carmignac’s new Porquerolles museum Financial Times. The subterranean space was initially planned to open in 2014 but opened in 2018.
In 2018, the opening exhibition at Fondation Carmignac focused on Carmignac's personal collection of over 300 pop and postmodern artworks.
Collection The Carmignac corporate collection comprises over 250 works from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on pop art and the German Expressionist School. The collection includes pieces by various artists, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Martial Raysse, Zhang Huan, Korakrit Ayunanondchaï, Richard Prince, and Sterling Ruby.
Several commissioned works were created for Porquerolles, including Ugo Rondinone's Four Seasons (2018), a ring of silver heads, and Olaf Breuning's Mother Nature (2018), a large red-haired face.
The Carmignac Photojournalism Award The Carmignac Photojournalism Award was established in 2009 and is directed by Emeric Glayse. It offers a €50,000 research grant to support the creation of an investigative photographic report on regions where fundamental rights are threatened and zones are largely ignored by mainstream media. The winner's reportage is exhibited in a traveling exhibition and published in a monograph. The 2016 Photojournalism Award retrospective at Saatchi Gallery was the most visited photojournalism exhibition.
List of Editions and Winners Edition Year / Theme Winner(s) Region / Focus 1st 2009 Kai Wiedenhöfer (Germany) Gaza – The human and physical toll of the conflict and blockade. 2nd 2010 Massimo Berruti (Italy) Pashtunistan – Smuggling, violence, and daily life along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. 3rd 2011 Robin Hammond (New Zealand) Zimbabwe – Human rights abuses and systemic crises under Robert Mugabe’s regime. 4th 2012 Davide Monteleone (Italy) Chechnya – Living conditions, control, and human rights under Ramzan Kadyrov. 5th 2013 Newsha Tavakolian (Iran) Iran – The lives of a generation of young middle-class Iranians. 6th 2014 Christophe Gin (France) French Guiana – Lawlessness, gold panning, and marginalization in the Amazonian territory. 7th 2015 Narciso Contreras (Mexico) Libya – Modern-day human trafficking, migrant slavery, and detention centers. 8th 2017 Lizzie Sadin (France) Nepal – Human trafficking and the exploitation of women and young girls. 9th 2018 Yuri Kozyrev & Kadir van Lohuizen (Russia / Netherlands) The Arctic – The environmental, human, and geopolitical impact of climate change. 10th 2019 Tommaso Protti (Italy) Amazonia – Deforestation, illegal mining, and rights violations threatening the Brazilian Amazon. 11th 2020 Finbarr O'Reilly (Canada / Ireland) Democratic Republic of the Congo – Chronic conflicts and the resilience of local communities, notably women in North Kivu. 12th 2021 Fabiola Ferrero (Venezuela) Venezuela – The socio-economic collapse, emigration crisis, and lost futures of youth. 13th 2022 Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant, & Bénédicte Kurzen (Ghana / France) Ghana – The ecological and human challenges associated with the transboundary flow of electronic waste. 14th 2023 Kiana Hayeri & Mélissa Cornet (Canada-Iran / France) Afghanistan – The systematic suppression and erasure of the fundamental rights of women and girls under Taliban rule. 15th 2024 Nicole Tung (USA / Hong Kong) Southeast Asia – Environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and labor exploitation linked to illegal overfishing across Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The Porquerolles project
The Foundation planned to open additional premises on the island of Porquerolles in 2016. The site was intended to be accessible to the public and to host temporary exhibitions and artworks specifically created for the museum and sculpture park. To adapt the existing Provençal country house for this purpose, architect GMAA was hired to redesign it. The foundation also hired landscape architect Louis Benech to design the gardens. The location is situated in the heart of Port-Cros National Park.
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