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photography

Léonce Raphaël Agbodjelou

Prix des Amis du musée Albert-Kahn

Léonce Raphaël Agbodjelou is the winner of the Prix des Amis du musée Albert-Kahn 2026, for his series Egungun. In the Yoruba (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) and Fon (Benin) traditions, the Egunguns represent the spirits of the ancestors who symbolically return to the living during sacred ceremonies. They embody the continuity between past and present, visible and invisible, the protection and transmission of family and community values. Through his photographs, Léonce Raphaël Agbodjelou reinterprets this tradition by placing it in a contemporary context. He stages the Egunguns in modern settings, creating a powerful dialogue between ancestral heritage and contemporary reality. Rather than simply documenting a tradition, he recontextualises it.

Image: Egungun © Léonce Raphaël Agbodjelou

art

Morgane Fontaine

1er Prix

Morgane Fontaine is a French artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Nantes. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire in 2023. Combining drawing, painting, and installation, her work explores the notion of perception. Through the themes of wandering, memory, and intimacy, she seeks to represent by superimposing different thresholds of perception: sensations, traces, pasts, and futures. Her work process begins with the daily archiving of photographs and written notes, focusing on what escapes the eye yet surrounds us every day, as well as the porosity between the visible and the invisible.

Image: Morgane Fontaine, Untitled, Poussières Fantômes series (drawing N°5),
graphite on 180g drawing paper, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2025.

art

Marilyn Minter

International Artist Award

Known for her feminist practice that blends painting and photography, artist Marilyn Minter is Anderson Ranch Arts Center's 2026 International Artist Honoree.⁠ Minter joins a distinguished legacy of past recipients who have fundamentally influenced contemporary art. Through provocative and hyper-realistic paintings, photographs, and videos, her work challenges perceptions of glamour and beauty in modern culture.⁠

Image: Marilyn Minter, Blue Poles, 2007.

fashion

Maxina Brewer
Finnerty Mackay

L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Award

On the first day of London Fashion Week, Central Saint Martins staged its annual MA show, with designers Maxina Brewer and Finnerty Mackay taking home the L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Award. Finnerty Mackay's Perpetual Motion collection sits inside the cycle of addiction as an intrinsic part of our humanity to be embraced rather than a moral failing. Moving through Control, Euphoria, Hysteria, and Melancholy, the collection expands these states into textiles adorned with expired condoms discarded from London's queer dark rooms to constrained, tailored silhouettes passed down through three generations of alcoholic inheritance. Maxina Brewer's Ascension collection explores how she has nurtured herself as a woman. Balancing euphoria and dysphoria due to the constantly changing standards that society holds for women's bodies.

Images: London Fashion Week, Central Saint Martins MA 2026 show.

photography

Aglaé Bory

Prix Eurazeo

French photographer Aglaé Bory is the winner of the Prix Eurazeo 2026. Aglaé Bory won the fifteenth edition of the competition, themed ‘Stories of Europe,’ with her series entitled Ici Ailleurs [Here Elsewhere], created in 2023 during her residency at the Filature in Mulhouse. The project does not seek to document the city or offer a sociological interpretation of it. It focuses on people and their presence. Through a series of figures, a human cartography emerges. It reveals a multifaceted territory, shaped by the circulation of cultures, histories, and perspectives in a city at the crossroads of several European borders.

Image: Ici Ailleurs © Aglaé Bory

art

Derriann Pharr
Simonette Quamina
Taylor Simmons

Artist-in-Residence program

Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina, and Taylor Simmons are the first cohort to take up residency in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s new purpose-built home. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Pharr creates mixed-media portraits of ethereal and fantastical figures, often depicted in blurry landscapes. New York-based Quamina was born in Ontario, Canada, and spent her childhood in the Caribbean and South America, as well as New York. That disparate upbringing informs the monumental prints and collaged drawings that she makes. Atlanta-born, New York-based Simmons typically uses a mix of acrylic, oil, airbrush, and wax in his paintings, drawings, and prints, which often depict scenes from everyday life.

Images: Derriann Pharr, Oh my Greedy Girl! Haven’t I given you everything? From the womb I made you, Held you, You are my Bond and Burden, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Simonette Quamina, Catch a pacu, buss he back and salt um, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Taylor Simmons, Dancers at the Dome, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Public Gallery, London.

architecture

SUPRA* Pavilion

Small Scale & Installations Award

The 15 Winning Projects of the 2026 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards have been unveiled. In the Small Scale & Installations category, SO? Architecture and Ideas won for its SUPRA* Pavilion, a permanent installation designed for the 2024 Suseong International Biennale held in Suseong-gu, Daegu, South Korea. Set within a context shaped by the overlap of dense urban infrastructure and natural landscape, the project investigates the contemporary relationship between city, nature, and perception through a simple canopy that offers a moment of pause and self-reflection within the public realm.

Image: SO? Architecture and Ideas, SUPRA* Pavilion, Suseong-gu, Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
Photo: Oral Göktaş.