Gomma Grant 2024: Finalists

The Gomma Photography Grant is a prestigious contest designed to support and fund photographers at all stages of their careers, from emerging talents to established professionals, across a variety of genres.

Since its inception in 2014, the Gomma Grant has earned a reputation for its commitment to ethics, quality, and its ability to uncover fresh talent while championing photographers already making an impact.

Winners and shortlisted photographers not only receive cash grants but also gain significant international exposure. Many photographers recognized by the Gomma Grant have elevated their careers to new heights, both professionally and artistically.

The Finalists for the Gomma Grant 2024 have been officially announced today! This year’s selection highlights an extraordinary range of photographic talent, with works spanning various genres, styles, and creative approaches. The sixty-six finalists were chosen from an impressive pool of submissions, showcasing exceptional quality, innovation, and storytelling. Reflecting global diversity, the selected projects demonstrate photography’s power to inspire, provoke, and connect across cultures. To explore these remarkable works and celebrate the photographers’ achievements, visit The Gomma Photography Grant. Congratulations to all the finalists for their outstanding contributions to the art of photography!

The Finalists of the 2024 Gomma Photography Grant are:
Abdulhamid Kircher, Ai/Huang, Aida Gren, Alana Perino, Albert Słowiński, Aldo Feroce, Alessandro Silverj, Andrey Ludmer, Ania Klosek, Anna Guseva, Antoine Lecharny, Arseniy Neskhodimov, Bela Varadi, Bo Yan, Carles Hidalgo, Christian Barbé, Constanze Han, Daniel M. Torres, Daniela Balestrin, Daniele Vita, Diana Ridaf, Diego Fabro, Dominic Turner, Fabian Schwarze, Fabio Domenicali, Federica Baruffi, Filippo Venturi, Florian Langellier, François Silvestre de Sacy, Gil Barez, Giorgia De Bortoli, Hiro Tanaka, Ingmar Björn Nolting, J.A. Young, Jérémie Vaudaux, Jesús Umbría Brito, Kamil Śleszyński, Kumi Oguro, Lê Chau Cuong, Liam Man, Lionel Jusseret, Louis Roth, Luca Meola, Ludovica Limido, Marco Sconocchia, Mark Forbes, Mike Graziano, Nathalie Bertrams, Nikko Knösch, Ohad Matalon, Paul Carroll, Pavel Nasadil, Riel Sturchio, Rob Trendy, Roland Ramanan, Romain Bagnard, Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom, Sara Aue Sobol, Simon Johansson, Suryene Ragmanet, Tomoaki Hata, Tony Kunz, Uta Genilke, Vladimir Karamazov, Vladimir Seleznev and Yizhen Zhang.

The overall Winners will be announced by the end of February 2025.

Cedric Roux: Before Rebirth

By Cedric Roux

Publisher : ODYSSEE

2024 | 96 pages

Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.

Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..

In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..

In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.

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John Divola: San Fernando Valley

By John Divola

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2024 | 60 pages

From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

By Cig Harvey

Publisher : The Monacelli Press

2025 | 224 pages

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

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Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin

By Helmut Newton

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 244 pages

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated. In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation. This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.

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