What follows is a selection of photographs from this year shortlisted photographers for one of the most coherent photo-festivals in Europe: Hyères. As is made very clear by the following selection, this prize is also an elegy to the long lasting love affair between photography ans sculpture, with a particular emphasis on the fusion between subject and object (or should I say ‘the crisis of identity’), that has been growing for the past couple of years and ends up being materialized in the form of a mask.

© Marie Rime, both images Untitled, from the series Symétrie de pouvoir, 2013.

© Marie Rime, Untitled, from the series Armures, 2013.

© Marie Rime, both images Untitled, from the series Masques, 2011.

© Lorenzo Vitturi, Untitled, from the series Dalston Anatomy, 2013.

© Lorenzo Vitturi, Untitled, from the series Dalston Anatomy, 2013.

© Orianne Lopes, Untitled, from the series Les Mélanies, 2013.

© Orianne Lopes, Untitled, from the series Pellis Armatura, 2012.

© Anna Grzelewska, Editorial work.

© Birthe Piontek, Untitled, from the series Mimesis, 2013.

© Birthe Piontek, Untitled, from the series Mimesis, 2013.

© Osma Harvilahti, Untitled.

© Osma Harvilahti, Untitled.

© Virginie Rebetez, Untitled, from the series Under Cover, 2013.

© Virginie Rebetez, Untitled, from the series Under Cover, 2013.