The Prix Virginia is organised every two years by the association Sylvia S. for a professional woman, of any nationality, living and of any age. The pictures submitted must be unpublished in France and exclude press work and advertising commissions; the jury of eight cultural personalities is renewed every two years. Why a prize for a woman photographer? "The women of my family were foundational for me: Virginia, my grandmother, a pianist, my great-aunt, a painter, and my mother, a sculptor, nourished my curiosity for art from earliest childhood. This filiation opened my path as an artist. Creating the Prix Virginia affirms my support for the recognition of women photographers; it is also a way of sharing the passions that were passed on to me." The box gathers twenty-two plates with two images by each laureate and one image by each selected photographer. A device lets one display an image on a small stand, so that the reader can pull out the plates like a perpetual calendar.