Finalists – Prix Picto de la Mode 2025 : Igor Pjörrt

Igor Pjörrt, a visual artist based in Paris, explores masculinity, desire, and identity through an intimate photographic practice. Influenced by his childhood on the island of Madeira, his work navigates between distance and emotion, searching for the tenderness often lost in rites of passage. His series “Guide” features young men wandering along twilight beaches, where the horizon becomes an internal mirror. These images, bathed in light and sensuality, question the representation of masculinity in adolescence while seeking to transcend invisible boundaries of desire and intimacy.

Biography

Born in Madeira in 1996, Igor Pjörrt is a visual artist based in Paris. His work explores the complex nuances of masculinity and intimacy. Influenced by his childhood on an island, his images delve into notions of time and distance, while echoing the subtleties of identity and the desire to transcend it. During his adolescence, photography became a tool for introspective escape. He developed a visceral visual language, rich in color and imbued with a certain sensuality. His compositions often evoke a maritime atmosphere, frequently described as twilight-like. By using autofiction as a photographic genre, Igor Pjörrt explores the scope of what he calls “confessional photography.”

Guide

“Growing up involves negotiating inner truths with the world.”
The series “Guide” portrays young men wandering along beaches at twilight. It is within these ephemeral landscapes—fundamentally liminal spaces — that things become intangible and desire emerges.
The horizon, though omnipresent, becomes an internal element, marking a revealing divide for these characters. This feeling is tied to the experience of growing up on an island, a place where one is naturally inclined to look outward.
Something Uranian inhabits this impulse in the images of “Guide”—not in a quest for belonging, but in an attempt to transgress an invisible boundary.
Through these representations of masculinity, the subjects find moments of contemplative stillness amid the turbulence of youth, revealing a tenderness often lost in the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood.