Spirals

Prix du Livre Historique — Rencontres d'Arles (2026) · Bourse du 1er livre photo Eyes Wide Open (2025)

SPIRALS is a photographic investigation into the forced sterilisation of Greenlandic women by the Danish government between 1966 and 1975. With this work, which combines investigation, documentary and visual practice, the French photographer gives a powerful voice to victims held in leaden silence for many years.

JULIETTE PAVY — A documentary photographer trained in photojournalism at the EMI CFD in Paris, she works regularly with the national press, including Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, Mediapart… Alongside this, she has developed a documentary approach to photography on environmental and social subjects, mainly in the Arctic.

In 2020 she co-founded the Collectif Hors Format and was selected for the Kickstarter x Polka call for projects. In 2022 she was a laureate of the Grande commande nationale of the BnF and the ministère de la Culture. The following year she received the prize of the Union des Photographes Professionnels (UPP) and the bourse Françoise Demulder from Visa pour l'Image for her reportage on the forced sterilisation of women in Greenland. Her work has been exhibited and screened at festivals such as L'Oeil Urbain, Visa pour l'Image, Escales Photos and Les Femmes s'exposent.

In 2024 she was named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA)