For its 6th edition, the Maison Ruinart Prize was awarded to photographers Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout, a duo that emerged from a project at the Villa Medici in 2020. Following their residency in Champagne, Edouard and Bastien created a series of photographs titled Le Jardin de Craie, which explores the close relationship between biodiversity, the landscape, and the geology of this region.

By blending outdoor and underground photography, this project invites a conversation with the living world, where the mineral, vegetal, and human elements intertwine and extend into one another, often indistinguishable from each other.