2024 winners

For the first time since its creation in 2012, the jury of Prix Virginia chose to award the 7th Prix Virginia to two photographers during an online deliberation on October 8th 2024.

The high-quality of the two series presented by Jo Ractliffe and Jennifer Sakai convinced a jury of photography specialists, strongly impressed by the rigorousness of two incomparable applications submitted at two very different stages of careers.
By choosing to split the prize in two, the jury acknowledges and highlights the double necessity of recognizing women photographers’ longtime career and supporting emerging women photographers.

Jo Ractliffe

Jennifer Sakai

2024 Jury’s choice

Alongside Jo Ractliffe and Jennifer Sakai,
the jury took note of 10 other candidates

whose photographs will be regularly presented on the Prix Virginia website,
approximately showcasing one photographer every two months, from
January 2025 until the awarding of the next Prix Virginia in 2026:

Beatriz de Souza Lima – France / Brazil Laura Letinsky – Canada / United-States Sunmin Lee – South Corea Lisa Sorgini – Australia / Italy Lua Ribeira – Spain / United-Kingdom Louise Desnos – France Nadia Ettwein – South Africa Julie Calbert – Belgium Maria Abranches – Portugal Clara Watt – Canada / Senegal

2024 Jury

Prix Virginia 2024 jury meeting.

Damarice Amao, Photography historian, curator at the photography department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou and curator Federica Angelucci, Curator et Stevenson Gallery, South Africa, associate Aldeide Delgado, Founder and director of WOPHA, Miami, United-States Anna Planas, Artistic director of Paris Photo, France Fiona Rogers, V&A Parasol Foundation, Curator of Women in Photography au Victoria and Albert Museum, United-KingdomSylvia Schildge, President and founder of the Prix Virginia, France Pauline Vermare, Art historian and curator, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography Brooklyn Museum, United-States