RUNNER UP 2026
RESEARCH PRESENTATION
13 NOV 2026 - 5 JAN 2027
ANTANANARIVO
Zo Andrianjafy Ramino-Ratsiravana is a documentary photographer and photojournalist, developing personal projects rooted in memory, cultural identity and environmental change. He consistently works with natural light, focusing on ordinary gestures, gazes and lived-in spaces. Convinced that photography captures what is felt as much as what is seen, he seeks to make the image a space for reflection on existence, time and belonging.
For his project Tsiokatimo [South wind], les gardiens de l’absence, which made him Runner-up for the Prix Paritana in (2026), he shifts the focus away from the crisis imagery usually associated with the Androy region in southern Madagascar. Instead, he looks at those who remain as their world changes beyond recognition. The series is rooted in solastalgia, that sense of distress arising from the transformation of one’s own territory. Shot in black and white using natural light, it explores how climate change and migration alter relationships with land, cycles of life, and tanindrazana, the land of the ancestors.
Artist's biography
Zo Andrianjafy Ramino-Ratsiravana was born in 1999 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He lives and works in Antananarivo.
He trained in hostile environment photography with Thomson Reuters, Nairobi (Kenya, 2025), and in documentary practice and visual journalism at the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (South Africa, 2024); he also took part in a visual journalism programme delivered by VII Academy (2024).
He was Runner-up for the Prix Paritana (2026).