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The Fondation Carmignac Gestion and the Photojournalism award
The Fondation Carmignac Gestion, based on Édouard Carmignac's corporate collection, was created in 2000. In 2010,
it set up a Photojournalism award: a grant of €50,000 designed to finance a report on "a theme with a direct grasp on
reality". The foundation offers the winner an exhibition and a monograph, and undertakes to buy four photographs
arising from this work. The third award in the series went to Robin Hammond, and his report on Zimbabwe is currently
on show in Paris. Hammond takes uncompromising stock of thirty years of dictatorship and ruin in a gagged country
that few talk about. He is extremely familiar with Zimbabwe, where he stayed a number of times and produced a report
on the Marange diamond fields, acclaimed by the Amnesty International Media Award. The Carmignac corporate
collection contains two hundred contemporary works by artists including Warhol, Barcélo, Gursky, Walid Raad and Gao
Zengli. Thanks to the lightning progress of his financial investment company, founded in 1989, Édouard Carmignac
now manages a portfolio of €44 billion, and his company recently became one of the top ten European investment
trusts. In March 2012, Le Journal des Arts announced the creation by the Fondation Carmignac Gestion of a "venue
dedicated to contemporary art on the Ile de Porquerolles, off the city of Hyères. The opening is planned for the summer
of 2014". Zaha Redman
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Robin Hammond,
"Cold Storage Commission in Bulawayo".
Robin Hammond, ''Your wounds will be named silence'', École Nationale des Beaux-arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, 14, rue Bonaparte,
Paris 75006, www.fondation-carmignac-gestion.com – Admission free. Until 9 December. www.fondation-carmignac-gestion.com
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© R. Hammond, Panos Pictures for the Prix Carmignac