For its seventh year, the Maison Ruinart Prize is awarded this year to French photographer Marine Lanier. The prize, awarded as part of Maison Ruinart's sponsorship program, recognizes an emerging photographer selected from the Emergence section of Paris Photo. Following her residency in Champagne this summer, Marine produced the Alchimia series, which will be presented for the first time at the 2025 edition of Paris Photo, from November 13 to 16, at the Grand Palais.

Marine has imagined a philosophical tale unfolding in ellipses, in search of a secret alphabet. The Champagne region, shaped by the ancient presence of a vanished ocean, becomes a land of enigmas. Her images are an invitation to decode the signs of life between man and the immemorial cycles that pass through him.

Born in 1981, Marine Lanier lives between Dieulefit and Madrid. Graduated from the ENSP in Arles after studying geography, literature and cinema, she was a member of the Casa de Velázquez in 2024-2025. Her work explores marginal territories – islands, mountains, frontiers, abysses, deserts, volcanoes, forests – where figures blend into

nature. She investigates the fusion of myth, memory, and ecology, within a tension between elevation and immersion. Developed over the years, her series unfold as sensitive and committed frescoes, combining photography, text, archives, and sounds in a fragmentary and symbolic narrative form.

Represented by the Jörg Brockmann Gallery, she has exhibited her work in France (BNF, Palais de Tokyo, Rencontres d'Arles, Paris Photo, etc.) and internationally (United States, China, Korea, Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom, Netherlands, etc.). She has published three books with Poursuite (Nos feux nous appartiennent, Le Jardin d’Hannibal, Le Soleil des loups) and collaborates with the American writer Rick Bass. Her works are

included in numerous public and private collections (Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, CNAP, Musée d’Aurillac, BNF, etc.). Her work is part of an eco-poetic approach in which the link between humans, living beings, and the invisible forces of the world is narrated through documentary tales open to the emergence of magical realism.