Tarrah Krajnak

Following the deliberations held on October 6, 2025, at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, the jury of the 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award has selected photographer Tarrah Krajnak for her project Dislocations (working title). This work will be exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in 2027 and will also be the subject of a publication.

Tarrah Krajnak’s application was submitted by Thomas Zender, Founder of Galerie Znder, Cologne and Paris.

Members of the Jury for the 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award

Julie Arnaud, Project Manager, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris
Mâbe Betchonico, Professor, École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles
Clément Chéroux, Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Boaz Levin, Curator and Co-Head of Program, C/O Berlin
Simon Njami, Independent Curator
Agnès Sire, Former Artistic Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Nina Strand, Artist, Curator, and Founder of Objektiv Press

Partner
The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is the patron of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award.

Tarrah Krajnak’s practice combines photography, performance, and writing. For her project titled Dislocations (working title), she revisits the sites photographed by Lewis Baltz in 1974 in New Industrial Parks near Irvine, CA, staging her own body within them to explore the political and social legacy of these industrial landscapes, as well as contemporary violences against marginalized communities under the Trump era. Intimately connected to this narrative as a woman born in Latin America and naturalized American, Krajnak transforms these anonymous sites into spaces of memory and resistance.

Biography
Tarrah Krajnak (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) is an artist and educator working across photography, performance, and writing. Krajnak lives and works in Los Angeles where she is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA. She is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne/Paris. Krajnak is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, and a Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies. She has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Pinault Collection, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam among others. She is currently based in Berlin as a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg.