Nuits Balnéaires won the second Latitudes award from the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
His series “Eboro,” exploring transgenerational heritage and exile, to be exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, in 2026.
The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is pleased to announce that photographer Nuits Balnéaires has been appointed the laureate of the second edition of Latitudes, its international programme of support for new, creative photography. The Ivorian artist was selected by a jury of representatives from the Fondation and its partner institutions, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the International Center of Photography (ICP).
Nuits Balnéaires won the second Latitudes award from the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
Nuits Balnéaires’s winning project, the photographic series “Eboro,” receives a grant of €40,000. The series draws on the metaphysical thought of the Nzima and Agni-Bona peoples of Côte d’Ivoire, for whom Eboro is humanity’s place of origin and the final destination of the soul. Against the backdrop of the Gulf of Guinea and in collaboration with local artists, Balnéaires stages images that explore the relationship between his forebears’ experience of exile and his own perspective on travel and deracination. His work creates a dense, contemplative narrative suffused with melancholy and nostalgia, inviting profound reflection on identity and our shared genetic, cultural, and historical heritage.
“We are thrilled to support Nuits Balnéaires and his powerful, introspective work through the Latitudes programme,” said a representative of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. “His unique artistic voice and profound connection to his cultural roots perfectly embody the spirit of Latitudes, which seeks to elevate new perspectives in photography.”
The fruits of this second edition of Latitudes, mentored by David Campany, Artistic Director of the ICP, will be presented to the public in major international exhibitions. “Eboro” will be shown at the International Center of Photography in New York from January 29 to May 4, 2026, alongside “Radio Ballast” by François-Xavier Gbré, laureate of the first edition of Latitudes. The exhibition will then travel to the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris from May 20 to October 4, 2026, with a subsequent presentation in Abidjan in 2027.
Nuits Balnéaires won the second Latitudes award from the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
The project will also be immortalized in a bilingual French-English publication, co-published by Atelier EXB and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
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