Camera Clara Photo Award 2026

Camera Clara is a French photography prize dedicated specifically to large-format photography. Founded in 2012 by Joséphine de Bodinat Moreno, it rewards an unpublished body of work made with a large-format camera, presented as a coherent series of 5 to 10 images. The €8,000 prize is paid by Joséphine de Bodinat Moreno and includes exhibition production support for the winner.

Submissions are free of charge. The award accepts only large-format work and excludes AI-generated images. Selection criteria emphasize coherence both in form and content, treating the series as the unit of evaluation rather than individual images — applicants are reviewed on whether the body of work holds together, not on whether any single image stands out.

The 2026 jury is unusually senior for a niche prize: Dominique de Font-Reaulx (Jury President), Aurélie Chauffert-Yvart (Artistic Director), Héloïse Conésa (Curator at the National Library of France), Marc Donnadieu (art critic and independent curator), Anne Lacoste (Director of the Institute for Photography of Hauts-de-France), Chantal Nedjib (communications consultant), Guillaume Piens (art historian and founder of Culture Squad Communication), Michel Poivert (Professor of Art History at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Fabien Simode (art critic and director of Maisons-Alfort Media Libraries), alongside founder Joséphine de Bodinat Moreno.

The 2026 deadline is midnight July 31; results are announced November 3. Applications are made through prixcameraclara.plateformecandidature.com.