Scarlett Coten is a recipient of the 2024 Support for contemporary documentary photography from the National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) and of the French Ministry of Culture’s Grande Commission 2022. She was awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize 2016 for her series « Mectoub », realised in North Africa and the Middle East, first chapter of the M trilogy on new masculinities.
In 2024, the « M » trilogy received a Gold Honor in Professional Storytelling in 1839 Award’s Color Photography, and was shortlisted in the Athens photo festival and Belfast photo festival. Plan américain has been selected for the Photography Now 2021 show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, USA, a finalist for Sony World Photography Awards 2019, the PHmuseum Photography prize, the Grand Prix ImageSingulières de la Photographie Documentaire, the Musée Albert-Kahn Grant, and part of Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida in 2018.
Form Photo Award / Kolga Festival Shortlisted
Exhibition: « WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR? », MAINTENANT Gallery, Marfa, TX, US / Faire Corps, Collections Photographiques de L’Imagerie et du Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Publication: Photo-letter / Trilogie M
Exhibition: Invisibles, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France / Trilogie M, Festival Nostre Mar, Perpignan, France
Publication: « Masculin Pluriel », in Le 1 hebdo
2024
Winner of the 2024 Support for contemporary documentary photography from the French Ministry of Culture’s National Center for the Visual Arts (CNAP)
Acquisition of art by the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (FRAC Bretagne)
Exhibitions: PARIS PHOTO FAIR : Trilogie M, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire,Grand Palais, Paris / Trilogie M, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris / Trilogie M, Le Château Coquelle, Dunkirk, France / « La France sous leurs yeux, 200 regards de photographes sur les années 2020 », BnF François-Mitterrand, Paris
Winner 1839 Award’s Color Photography 24 / Gold Honor in Professional Storytelling
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, London, Shortlisted
Athens photo festival / Belfast photo festival, Finalist
Publication: « Ein Mann wird nicht zum opfer », Couverture et Portfolio in: an.schläge – das feministische Magazin, Austria
2023
Festival LES NUITS PHOTO, screening of the video film: « M », L’entrepôt, Paris
Publication: « La disparition de James Bond » in L’Obs, France
Exhibition: Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging, curated by Maya Benton, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY USA
2022
Winner of « Radioscopie de la France« / Grande commande photographique du ministère de la culture pilotée par la BnF
Acquisition of Art by the National Center for the Visual Arts (CNAP), France
Book: Les rencontres Photographiques des Amis du Musée Albert Khan, Editions Sous la Glycine, France
« Scarlett Coten, la fotografia como acto de desobediancia« , Kamera Magazine, Spain
2021
Exhibitions: « Féminin Pluriel », Espace Commines, curated by Aline Pujo, Paris / M / Mectoub & Plan américain, TAPIS ROUGE, Arles, France / « Plan américain », screening of a video film, Festival Présence(s) photographie, Montélimar, France
2020
Book: « 40 years of Leica Oskar Barnack Award », Leica Camera AG, Germany
Winner, Jury Award, Festival des Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France
Critical Mass Top 200, USA
Exhibitions: « Inside Out », screening of a video film, Espace MLB, Arles, France / « 40 years of Leica Oskar Barnack Award », Ernst Leitz Museum, Wetzlar, Germany
PHmuseum Editors’ Top Projects of 2020: the most solid projects uploaded to our community this year: Plan américain
Verazca Foto Awards, Switzerland, Finalist
2019
Exhibitions: « Sony World Photography Awards», Paris, France / « Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition », London / « Patriarchy is burning », Palais de Tokyo, Paris / Gang of Witches Festival / « Chelsea International Photography Competition « , Agora Galerie, New York, USA
Publications: « To be a woman artist is to be a warrior« , World Photography Organisation, UK / « Redefining Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary America », PHmuseum, Story of the Week
Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlisted Professional competition, Portraiture
Grand Prix ImageSingulières de la Photographie Documentaire, Finalist, France
Bourse du Musée Albert-Kahn, Finalist, France
Main prize, PHmuseum 2019 Photography Grant, Finalist
Selected, Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review, USA
2018
Critical Mass Top 50, USA
Publications: WYWYMAGAZINE / I-D: « 5 photographers reimagining masculinity » / BJP: Photo Vogue Festival: Embracing diversity and the many shades of masculinity » / Vogue.it « Mectoub » and « Plan américain »
« Chelsea International Photography Competition », Top 5 selected artists, New York, USA
Exhibition: « ALL THAT MAN IS – Fashion and Masculinity Now », Photo Vogue Festival, Milano, Italia « Looking at You: Intimate Portraiture », juried by Photographer Jess T Dugan in the frame of PHOTO–EMPHASIS, Corridor Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
2017
Publications: FemmesPHOTOgraphes, « Plan américain » / CNN, « Mectoub » / The Guardian, « Mectoub »
Book: Firecrackers : Female Photographers Now, Thames and Hudson Publication, London
Exhibition: « Mectoub », Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris / Second edition of the Biennial of Photography in the Contemporary Arab World
Exhibition: « Mectoub », Galerie Spree, Paris
2016
Exhibition: Leica presents the Oscar Barnack Award 2016, « Mectoub », at Paris Photo
