ronan guillou grant

The Ronan Guillou Grant is launched as part of the CIVIS MARITIMUS program, which aims to explore the relationship between human and the sea, in order to challenge the essential issues facing the ocean.

This grant is aimed at photographers from Europe and the southern shores of the Mediterranean with a project associating humans and the marine world. A grant of 4000€ is awarded to the winner to carry out a project between Sète and the Gulf of Lion.

In 2025, with the support of the city of Sète and M28 terres de culture, a photographic creation grant is offered to professional European photographers from the southern shores of the Mediterranean.

For its third edition, CIVIS MARITIMUS is inviting a photographer from the same region – Occitania – to produce a photographic project focusing on social, cultural, ecological and/or heritage issues, linking people and the marine world.

Civis maritimus, literally Citizen of the Seas, is a long-term project conceived in synergy with photographer Ronan Guillou, who passed away in 2022. A sailor and lifelong European at heart, the photographer wanted to undertake his own odyssey along the Mediterranean coast. Ronan Guillou sought, as he put it, to detect the discreet surreality that emanates from the ordinary. The Ronan Guillou Grant, created as part of the CIVIS MARITIMUS program, extend this quest by questioning Man’s relationship with the marine world from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other.