By becoming a patron of the Niépce Prize in 2016, Picto Foundation took a symbolic new step in its sustained attention to emerging and established photographers. Run by Gens d’Images, the Niépce Prize has followed the same objective since its creation more than 60 years ago: to reward each year the work of a professional photographer residing in France for more than 3 years, and under 50 years old.

By supporting the Niépce Prize, Picto Foundation intends to pursue this ambition by allowing the winner to promote his or her work to collectors and institutions each year. It is in this spirit that Picto Foundation accompanies the winners in the conception, production and edition of an artists’ object.

Listening to the artist’s needs and ideas, Picto Foundation mobilizes its expertise and partners to create an original object, published in several signed and numbered copies, and entrusted to the artist for the promotion of their work.

For Picto Foundation, it is a question of going beyond mere technical intervention by focusing on the strength of exchanges, reflections and collective research associating several actors in the creative sphere at the service of the photographer.