A conversation with the winner of the 2020 Dior Photography and Visuels Arts Awards for Young Talents

Amsterdam, 
June 2020

The Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents presents its third edition under the theme “Face to Face”. 
Viviane Sassen, president of the jury, talks with Pamela Tulizo, winner of the award, about her work, her artistic choices and her inspirations.

In her series Double Identité composed of 13 self-portraits, Pamela Tulizo embodies an african woman oscillating between her identity and the role she is given by a globalised society. Shot in Goma in the North Kivu region, her photographs bear witness to the political, ecological and financial instability in this Congolese province.

Pamela Tulizo 
Native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pamela Tulizo worked as a journalist for a brief spell before determinedly dedicating herself to photography. Her work centres essentially on issues of female identity.

Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents 
The Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents is a contest aiming at creating a dialogue between the greatest international schools of art and photography and gathering together young talents and international artists, photographers and culture professionals.

The jury is presided by Viviane Sassen, photographer and accompagnied by Rachel Rose, artist, Maja Hoffmann, president and founder of Luma Arles, Emma Lavigne, curator, Simon Baker, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Jérôme Pulis, director of the international communication of Parfums Christian Dior and Helena Christensen, model and photographer. 

Due to Covid-19 restrictions the show expected to take place at the Parc des Ateliers is now presented in its digital version: https://www.luma-arles.org/dior/2020/

In partnership with the École Nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles and hosted by Luma Arles.