THE COSMOS PDF AWARD IS A DIGITAL PRIZE. ITS PRIMARY GOAL IS TO SUPPORT PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE PRODUCTION AND SHOWCASING OF INNOVATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL PUBLISHING PROJECTS. SUBMISSIONS SHOULD BE UNPUBLISHED WORK AIMED AT REDEFINING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM, AND MUST BE PROVIDED AS PDF DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS, ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF PAGES PER SUBMISSION, PDF FILES MUST BE NO LARGER THAN 10 MB. SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ASSESSED BY PERSONALITIES FROM THE FIELDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLISHING. THE WINNER WILL L RECEIVE A 1000 EUROS GRANT.

THE SECOND PRIZE WILL GET A PORTFOLIO DEVELOPED BY A PROFESSIONAL STUDIO AS AN EXHIBITION MODULE, THE THIRD PRIZE’ IS AN HONORIFIC PRIZE TO LET THE COSMOS TEAM SUPPORT A PROJECT.
DEADLINE FOR CANDIDATURES WILL BE THE 1 ST JUNE 2025.


PDF (PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT) IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST READILY AVAILABLE FILE FORMAT FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND PROMOTION OF ARTISTIC PROJECTS. THE COSMOS PDF PRIZE WAS FOUNDED IN 2015 BY THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION GALERIE 2600, WITH THE SUPPORT OF ATELIER SHL AND POLYCOPIES BOOK FAIR.

The Jury 2024 :
Milo Keller, director of photography, ECAL, Swizerland
Thomas Mailaender, artist, France
Cristina de Middel, Carlos Alba, artists and publishers, This book is true, Spain
Aurelia Marcadier, director, Photo Saint Germain, France
Delphine Manjard, director & publisher, Librairie du Palais & Palais books, France
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, artist, Graphist, France
Benjamin Diguerher, publisher, Poursuite, France
Jean-Marie Donat, artist & publisher, Innocences Publishing, France
Luce Lebart, historian, curator, researcher, France
Erik Kessels, Artist and publisher, Holland


The jury 2025:
Gabor Arion Kudasz, Professor of Photography, Hungary
Abdo Sharan, Photographer, Curator, Lebanon
Russet Lederman, Writter, publisher, USA
Alberto Sinigaglia, Journalist, Italy
Ruben Lundgren, artist & photographer, Holland
Monika Orpik & Lukasz Rusznica, Artists and curators, Polland
Jerome Blin & Gaetan Chevrier, Publishers, France
Chiara Capodici, Publisher, Italy
Yoshikatsu Fujii, photographer, Winner of the COSMOS PDF AWARD 2024, Japan
Gytis Skudzinkas, photographer, 2nd prize of the COSMOS PDF AWARD 2024, Greece
Santiago Escobar Jamarillo, photographer, 3rd prize of the COSMOS PDF AWARD 2024, Colombia
Aurelie De Lanlay, co-director, Rencontres de loa Photographie, Arles, France