10 professional figures from all over the world, working in the world of international cultural production, are called upon to select only one of the projects nominated by the reporters.
10 professional figures from all over the world, working in the world of international cultural production, are called upon to select only one of the projects nominated by the reporters.
Carlos Idun-Tawiah is the winner
of the Photo Grant edition of Deloitte 2025
Hero, father, friend
«The photography landscape is enriched by two new young names, destined to chart a precise path in the direction of narration and experimentation»
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Hero, father, friend
Carlos Idun-Tawiah (1997) is a Ghanaian photographer and filmmaker based in Accra. His work draws deeply from African archives, both personal and collective, reworking the continent’s transformations and bringing memory, imagination, past and present into dialogue. His photographs focus on the silent force of everyday life: the relationships between generations, the energy of youth, friendship and faith. Through a sensitive and intuitive gaze he creates intimate yet universal images. In his projects, he recounts the complexity of contemporary African life from within, with a visual language that expresses beauty, hope, and resilience.
Atefe Moeini is the winner
of the Deloitte Photo Grant Award 2025
Go live
Go Live is a photographic project that chronicles the plight of Iranian women in public spaces, often controlled and regulated by the authorities. It was born after an arrest in 2018 in Tehran for clothing considered “inappropriate”. In the series, the artist portrays women who have experienced similar situations, asking them to wear the same clothes they were stopped or warned for. The images thus become a symbolic gesture of resistance and vindication of their own visibility. The title recalls both a tattoo on one of the protagonists and the live social media broadcasts used to document and report abuse against women.
Atefe Moeini is a researcher, photographer, video and visual artist based in Iran. Her work combines imaginative visual narratives with an intuitive approach to image-making. Drawing from personal experiences, she creates photographs that explore the intersections of individuality and shared human connection. As part of the 2023 Tehran Biennale, Moeini presented a photo installation titled Six Windows and a Balcony in an apartment in downtown Tehran, where she had lived during the 2022 protests in Iran.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as “Woman-Life-Freedom” at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo (2023), “Another Birth” at Jossa by Alserkal in Dubai (2023), and the Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum (2022). Her series “This Is 18” for The New York Times was exhibited at the Sydney Opera House (2019), PhotoVille in Los Angeles (2018), and published as a book by Jessica Bennett (2019).
In 2021, Moeini received the Penumbra Foundation/Image Threads Scholarship for the Long-Term Photobook Program and she also participated in the Tbilisi Photo Festival’s program Isolated Communities: New Narratives, New Ways of Being and Living.
Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Lenscratch, and The Quick + The Brave Journal. Moeini is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art.
2025 Edition
Luisa Bondoni
Paul Ninson
Menno Liauw
Gonzalo De Benito
Laura Sackett
Veronica Nicolardi
Roger Ballen
Francois Hébel
Pierre Andre Podbieski
Toni Thorimbert
2025 Edition
Guido Borsani (President of the Deloitte Foundation)
Denis Curti (President of the Jury)
Antonio Carloni (Deputy Director of Gallerie d’Italia)
Melissa Harris (at-large editor of Aperture Foundation)
Nicolas Jimenez (LeMonde photoeditor)
Renata Ferri (RCS photoeditor)
Claudio Composti (curator)
Erik Kessels (editor)
Newsha Tavakolian (photographer and winner of the 2023 edition of Deloitte’s Photo Grant)
Sara Rizzo (Mudec)