Arnau Bach wins Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award

Arnau Bach has been selected as the winner of the Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award 2013 for an upcoming project called Capital, to be shot in Marseille, France. “The award will allow me to explore, [the city’s] poor suburbs, stigmatised for criminality, the traditional fishing sector which has seen its share of the port diminished, and the inhabitants who have been forced to leave the popular areas of the city’s centre,” writes Bach in his project proposal.

“It will allow me to show all aspects of Marseille’s culture that have been excluded, to get close to the inhabitants and capture their hopes and frustrations from an intimate and personal perspective.”

Bach’s project was rewarded on the strength of Suburbia, a reportage about life in Paris’ suburbs.

Selected by a panel of jurors that included Jean-Luc Monterosso of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Jérôme Huffer of Paris Match, Antoinette Boulat, Jean-François Camp of Laboratoire Central Dupon Images, and VII Photo’s Christopher Morris, Bach will receive his award at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in early September.

The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award finances the production of “a story that has never been told, but that the photographer cannot find support for within the media”, say the organisers.

For more on Bach’s work, visit www.arnaubach.es.