FRAME Awards | Prix Camera Clara | Jane Lombard Prize | Prix de Gravure | Planches Contact | ACC Prize | LOBA | PhMuseum Photobook | Han Nefkens Grant

design

AIM Architecture

Designer of the Year

AIM Architecture wins FRAME Awards’ Designer of the Year. Masters at turning spaces into destinations through design, AIM Architecture embodies the terms ‘experiential’ and ‘immersive’ design. Its retail interiors invite exploration, providing settings for serendipity and turning shopping experiences into treasure hunts that tap into natural human curiosity. The firm’s work pays tribute to local heritage by incorporating materials reflective of the manufacturing region or drawing on local and vernacular architecture, reimagining tradition while adding an innovative twist.

Image: AIM Architecture, community Cotton Park, Changzhou, China. Photo: Dirk Weiblen.

photography

Randa Mirza

Prix Camera Clara

Lebanese artist Randa Mirza was awarded the Prix Camera Clara for her series Atlal [Ruines]. For Atlal, Randa Mirza photographed villages in southern Lebanon bombed by the Israeli army between August and December 2024. In black and white, her images tell the story of places that were once home but are now in ruins, "wounds in the landscape that highlight the cruelty of human nature and the ravages of war." Nostalgic, her images are inspired by poetry: photographed with a Crown Graflex 4x5 large format camera, which requires a long exposure, the technique is reminiscent of the process of writing verse.

Image: Randa Mirza, building destroyed by Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon in 2024. © Randa Mirza

art

Rosana Paulino

Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics announced Brazilian artist, educator, and researcher Rosana Paulino as the recipient of the 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. Considered in relation to the Vera List Center’s two-year research theme Matter of Intelligence, Paulino is recognized for the significance and impact of her 2016 artist book ¿História Natural?. Paulino redefines intelligence as dynamic, relational and liberatory, challenging dominant epistemologies and opening space for more just and inclusive ways of knowing. In her hands, materials are not inert supports but active participants, textiles, paper and thread become epistemic tools, carriers of memory and agents in the work of unlearning and reimagining.

Image: Rosana Paulino, from ¿História Natural?, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

art

Diane Victor

Prix de Gravure Mario Avati - Académie des beaux-arts

South African artist Diane Victor is the recipient of the Prix de Gravure Mario Avati - Académie des beaux-arts 2025. In her work, Diane Victor explores the social and political realities of her native country, marked by the aftermath of apartheid, systemic violence, injustice and identity tensions. Her work is characterized by a mastery of the classical figurative tradition, which she confronts with contemporary and ephemeral materials such as soot and smoke.

Image: Diane Victor, The Girl Who Started the Trouble (third lithograph of the triptych The Holy Masquerade), 108 x 78 cm, 2019.

photography

Naïma Lecomte

Prix du Jury de la Jeune Création

At Planches Contact Festival in Deauville, Normandy, Naïma Lecomte was awarded the Prix du Jury de la Jeune Création for her work Ce qui borde, which captivated the jury with its attentive focus on the territory, the rhythm of walking and observation. Through her series, Naïma Lecomte invites us to contemplate the course of the Touques, a river that rises in the Orne, runs through Calvados and flows into the English Channel, separating Trouville from Deauville. A poetic and contemplative work that questions our connection to the land, nature and the passing of time.

Image: Ce qui borde © Naïma Lecomte

art

YoungEun Kim

ACC Future Prize

The National Asian Culture Center (ACC) announced Seoul‑born artist YoungEun Kim as the recipient of the 2026 ACC Future Prize, which aims to identify a representative of Korea’s next-generation contemporary art. Kim’s artistic practice critically examines complex social and historical narratives—including modernization, militarism and migration—through sound and auditory archives, revealing suppressed histories. "YoungEun Kim’s work awakens us to lost voices and unrecorded histories," the ACC said. "Her efforts to broaden the scope of contemporary Asian art and to contribute to future creative discourse are highly commendable."

Image: Exhibition view of Frames of Sound, SONGEUN, Seoul, 2022. YoungEun Kim, Ear Training, 2022, single-channel video, stereo and binaural sound, 15 min. Photo: Jihyun Jung.

photography

Alejandro Cegarra

Leica Oskar Barnack Award

The 2025 Leica Oskar Barnack Award has been awarded to Venezuelan-born, Mexico-based photographer Alejandro Cegarra for his work on the Mexican border entitled The Two Walls. Alejandro Cegarra worked on this series between 2018 and January 2025, always within the borders, taking more than 35,000 photos. In black and white, the work focuses on individual stories as well as universal human emotions.

Image: The walker. A migrant walks atop a parked freight train known as The Beast on the outskirts of Piedras Negras, October 8, 2023. From The Two Walls series. © Alejandro Cegarra

photography

Thero Makepe

PhMuseum Photobook Award

Thero Makepe received the PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award for his work We Didn't Choose To Be Born Here, which examines Botswana and South Africa’s socio-political fabric through a personal lens. The project's title is drawn from a sentiment shared by different family members during times of crisis, separation and ennui. Through a blend of staged portraiture, re-enactments, documentary images and extensive archival materials, Makepe's work delves into themes of personal responsibility versus collective struggle, the impact of social class on ideology and intergenerational trauma.

Image: We Didn't Choose To Be Born Here © Thero Makepe

art

Vishal Kumaraswamy

Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video
Art Production Grant

Vishal Kumaraswamy won the second edition of the Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video Art Production Grant. Kumaraswamy is a multi-disciplinary artist-curator from Bengaluru, India, working across text, film, sound, performance and computational arts. Rooted in anti-caste working principles, his practice employs traditional and experimental forms to investigate the entanglements of body, caste, language, technology and society. He is interested in the power and potential of media technologies to imagine embodied, gestural ways of fostering the further development of Dalit cultural practices.

Image: Vishal Kumaraswamy, ಮರಣ Marana [Demise] series, 2022-2023. Photogrammetry and direction by Vishal Kumaraswamy, generative image processing by Emilia Trevisani. Courtesy of the artist.