SELECTION
The residency is overseen by a panel of nominators, who each present between three and five artists, ensuring that there is a sufficient diversity in both approaches and styles. For this project, which immerses the chosen candidate in nature and the lives of the Château Palmer teams, the nominated artists must be renowned for their vision and sense sharing and dialogue. A resident artist is then picked by a jury of three people, who consult closely with the INSTANTS artistic committee.

SPACE & TIME
The residency is hosted on the Château Palmer estate, covering several phases of research and creation, throughout the seasons of a
wine vintage. Carte blanche is given to unique artistic experiments, which can be both free and rooted in the setting. The artist is chosen each year in December, while their production can stretch from January to the following October. The resident is announced at the end of this production phase.

FINANCING & GUIDANCE
Financing is fixed at €10,000 per artist for the entire residency, not counting accommodation costs, travel costs, per diem costs, and different outputs organized as part of the program. Leica Camera France provides the artist with its cutting-edge cameras and lenses, and the nominee is guided and supported through each step of their research, production, post-production, and the different outputs resulting from the residency.

ARTISTIC OUTPUT
There are various forms of output from the INSTANTS residency at Château Palmer. This includes the creation of an art book published by Filigranes Editions, the production of a photographic exhibition hosted for three months at the Leica Store Village Royal in Paris (from April to June), and any other display or organized showing decided upon by the artist, which is developed and supported in tandem by the Château Palmer and Leica Camera France partners.

2026
A panel of five nominators will accompany the fourth edition of the INSTANTS residency.

DAMARICE AMAO
Curator at the Cabinet de la Photographie for the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre
Pompidou

‍Damarice Amao is a photography historian with a PhD in art history. She co-curated the exhibitions Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018), and Dora Maar (2019), and co-edited the accompanying catalogs. At the Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, she has presented the exhibitions Charlotte Perriand: Politics of Photomontage (2021) and Nicole Gravier: Myths and Clichés (2023), as well as Unframing Colonialism: Anticolonialism, Surrealism, Modern Photography (2022-2023) at the Centre Pompidou.

EMILIA GENUARDI
Specialist in Contemporary Photography and Exhibition Curator

‍Emilia Genuardi founded the a ppr oc he fair in 2017, aimed at artists experimenting with images. She jointly heads up the event’s art direction alongside guest curators every year. In 2023, she created unRepresented by a ppr oc he, the first fair devoted to artists without gallery representation. The same year, a ccr oc he, the production team behind the fair, launched PROCHE, an organization providing moral and financial support to promote contemporary artists’ work, events, and projects in France and abroad.

EMMANUELLE HASCOËT
Chief Curator of Contemporary Photography at the BnF

‍Emmanuelle Hascoët joined Magnum Photos as an exhibition manager in 2005, working on projects in France, Southern Europe, and Latin America. Following on from her curatorial activities, she pursued her desire to assist photographers with transdisciplinary projects and founded her own organization, Fovearts, in 2015. Since October 2021, she has been Head of Contemporary Photography at the BnF’s Prints and Photography Department, where she coordinates the French Ministry of Culture’s photo grant, the Grande Commande aux Photojournalistes.

FLORENCE MOLL
Photography Agent and Founder of the FMA Le Bureau photo agency in Paris

‍Alongside photography, Florence Moll is also interested in other forms of visual creation and has recently launched HORS PISTE, devoted to new digital spaces. In 2017, she co-founded Les Filles de la Photo, the first women’s network in the photography ecosystem, and headed up the Observatoire de la mixité dans l'écosystème de la Photographie, a gender diversity watchdog for the photo industry, in 2020 and 2021. She is also a jury member for photography schools, a reader for various organizations, a curator, a nominator, and a consultant for brands, institutions, and private collectors.

VÉRONIQUE PRUGNAUD
Associate Director of the publishing house The Eyes

‍After studying business and cultural project management, Véronique Prugnaud focused on her passion for the world of photography by joining the PARIS PHOTO curatorship in 2009. In 2013, she embarked on a new adventure with the publishing house The Eyes and created the eponymous annual magazine. She has continued working in publishing while producing conferences and providing consulting services for cultural organizations. In 2022, she co-founded Eyes Wide Open, an organization working to develop cultural projects with social objectives. As a pro-bono member of Les Filles de la Photo, she launched and now co-directs the group’s mentoring program.