Prix de la Photographie – Clervaux Cité de l’image 2024

“Clervaux—Cité de l’image” organizes events all around the medium photography in the city of Clervaux, Luxembourg. The focus is on temporary exhibitions in public space. For the second time, the Prix de la Photography was organized in collaboration with the CAL—Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg and resulted in an exhibition of 14 artists in May 2024.

The Prize aims to reward the work of photographers and their recent contemporary photographic works emphasizing research, innovation, and originality. The jury prize is endowed with 10,000 euros, and the audience prize is endowed with 2,500 euros.

Materials for the open call and the exhibition are using various visual elements of (analog) photography:

The open call makes use of different viewfinder layouts and plays with focus and blurring. The used images are examples of photographic genres: portrait, landscape and architecture. The promotion of the open call relied heavily on social media, Łukasz Matuszewski did animated versions of the poster.

The graphics for the exhibition then take the idea further: after a motif is chosen, the development process starts and is referenced with the use of graphic elements of negatives. Again Łukasz Matuszewski worked on the animation.

A catalog showing the works of the selected artists was published on the day of the opening to accompany the exhibition. Printed on 90g/m2 Speed Gloss and 300g/m2 Munken Print White 1,5 for the cover, featuring Ota binding. All texts are in german and french.

All material is designed entirely using Dinamo’s Oracle and Oracle Triple. Oracle Triple is used for headlines and leaves a technical but “clumsy” impression which can be understood as a complement to photography, which is by nature both a technical and an artistic medium.

Johannes Breyer’s systematic but unusual construction of letters breaks up words with unexpected spaces and thus leaves gaps in words which leave room for interpretation.
Body copy or text in smaller sizes works with the non-mono Oracle.