Mahé Elipe, France
2024 Sony World Photography Awards - 1st Place, Environment, Professional Competition
French photographer Mahé Elipe has been based in Mexico City since 2016. Her documentary work focuses on the human condition with a particular interest in the place of women in society. She is one of the winner of Reuters Photojournalists Grants 2019 and also of the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 emergency fund in 2020. She was a finalist of the YBIPA 2022 of Athens Photo World and won the Women Photograph Project 2022 and recently received the Prix Françoise Demulder 2023 at the Visa pour l'image Festival and the Professional Environment category of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024. The photographer collaborates with various media such as Libération, Le Monde, Bloomberg, The Guardian and Reuters... Her photographic work has been made visible in various exhibitions and more recently in 2022 at the festival "Fotofetiwal" in Łódź in Poland and in Barcelone, Spain for the Festival II BCN-DH and in 2024 in Festival Visa pour l'image in Perpignan, France.