Exhibition
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Françoise Huguier

From woman to women
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While revisiting Secrètes, a work on women’s intimacy in Burkina Faso and Mali,
Françoise Huguier decided to dig deeper into her archives. Women appear
in all her reports.
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Festival Glaz — La confluence, Betton (FRANCE)
From November 10th, 2023, until March 10, 2024

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Camille Brasselet
Winner of the “Les femmes s’exposent” festival’s creative grants

for her project “suken path"

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This project will be realised in early 2024 and will be exhibited or screened at the next
edition of the festival, starting on the opening weekend of 7, 8 and 9 June 2024.

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Exhibition
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Guillaume Herbaut

French Fifth

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Through the jolts of the nation’s political and social life, this work questions
the representation of the French republic today.

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Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet (Bobigny- France)
From November 9th until December 30th 2023

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Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023

Ismail Ferdous

Sea Beach

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In its 43rd year, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award has just been presented to Ismail Ferdous
or his Sea Beach series shot in Bangladesh.

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The finalists' series will be exhibited from 12 October at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar..

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Book
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Anne Rearick

You will look to the mountains

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In the summer of 1989, Anne Rearick, still a young photographer, travelled to Perry
County in Eastern Kentucky. There she met the Riddle family and, charmed by
the candour traditional daily life, she took her first photographs on location, laying
the foundation for the humanist vision that has animated her practice ever since.

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Publisher Deadbeat Club, 2023


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Pierre-Elie de Pibrac

Hakanai Sonzai

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Pierre-Elie de Pibrac goes to Japan in 2020, a country which experienced
the Fukushima tsunami and where the inhabitants speak little about their emotions
their psychological and intimate concerns.
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Éditions Atelier EXB
Texts (in French) : Michel Poivert, photography historian and Kujira Sakisaka, poetess

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Bertrand Carrière

Une poignée d'étoiles

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The Canadian photographer presents a selection of a hundred images from
his visual diary, kept since 2006, in which he pursues the traces and fragments
of fragile, ephemeral things.

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Publisher: Loco, 2023


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Movie

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Cédric Gerbehaye

La Peine (Emperors of Nothing)
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The result of a long immersion in the heart of a Brussels prison, La Peine
(Emperors of Nothing) is an intimate and unprecedented dive into the depths
of the prison condition. Through the daily lives of the men and women
who live there – inmates, guards and warden – the film reveals the cracks
and hopes of a humanity trying to resist its own negation.

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Production : Citizen Films and Industrie Films
In coproduction with : Savage Film, Shelter Prod, The RTBF Television Belge
– Unité documentaire and VRT

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PRODUCTIONS

Watu's death, 2023

Série | On November 5, 2015, one of the biggest ecological disaster took place in Brazil. The Fundão dam, located in the state of Minas Gerais, broked down, causing a toxic mudflow that devastated the Rio Doce valley.

Sea Beach, 2020-2022

Series | Beaches around the world have their own self-contained cultures, a natural mix of the local traditions with what tourists bring to offer. It is how beaches develop their distinct personality and Cox’s Bazar - the world’s longest natural sea beach located in Bangladesh - has one to call its own.

Dans le creux, 2022-2023

Series | They wait in a square, as they do every day, to receive the food aid parcel offered by an association. They include families, single men and women, the elderly and students.

California Dreamin' 2023

Series | A long-term project on homelessness in California documents people on the wrong side of the profound social and economic divide.

War in Ukraine, 2023

Series | On June 4th, the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake the territory from the Russian occupying forces began.

Night life, 2022

Série | With Night life, Marin Driguez plunges us into the world of the night. From the underground to the posh clubs, via festivals, the party is declined and reinvented over the course of the evening.

Taking Care, 2018-in progress

Series | "Taking Care" is a documentary work in progress about the Belgian public hospital.

Guardians, 2023

Series | The role of the guardians, though omnipresent in our society and recently revealed as indispensable, is far more complex than it seems.

Jack in the Green, 2023

Series | In the town of Hastings, in the south-east of England, the Jack in the Green Festival takes place every year during the May Day weekend.

Watu's death, 2023

Série | On November 5, 2015, one of the biggest ecological disaster took place in Brazil. The Fundão dam, located in the state of Minas Gerais, broked down, causing a toxic mudflow that devastated the Rio Doce valley.

Sea Beach, 2020-2022

Series | Beaches around the world have their own self-contained cultures, a natural mix of the local traditions with what tourists bring to offer. It is how beaches develop their distinct personality and Cox’s Bazar - the world’s longest natural sea beach located in Bangladesh - has one to call its own.

Dans le creux, 2022-2023

Series | They wait in a square, as they do every day, to receive the food aid parcel offered by an association. They include families, single men and women, the elderly and students.

California Dreamin' 2023

Series | A long-term project on homelessness in California documents people on the wrong side of the profound social and economic divide.

War in Ukraine, 2023

Series | On June 4th, the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake the territory from the Russian occupying forces began.

Night life, 2022

Série | With Night life, Marin Driguez plunges us into the world of the night. From the underground to the posh clubs, via festivals, the party is declined and reinvented over the course of the evening.

Taking Care, 2018-in progress

Series | "Taking Care" is a documentary work in progress about the Belgian public hospital.

Guardians, 2023

Series | The role of the guardians, though omnipresent in our society and recently revealed as indispensable, is far more complex than it seems.

Jack in the Green, 2023

Series | In the town of Hastings, in the south-east of England, the Jack in the Green Festival takes place every year during the May Day weekend.
Series Portraitists Multimedia

NEWS

You Will Look To The Mountains

Deadbeat Club - 2023

This is Afghanistan

The Miegunyah Press - 2023

Une poignée d'étoiles

Loco - 2023

Arte, Show: Invitation to travel - The Bangkok of the mischievous Mister Pink

On the streets of Bangokok, this character in a pink suit is the work of a daring photographer: Manit Sriwanichpoom, the troublemaker of the Thai photographic scene. With humour, irony and a sense of provocation, he has been capturing the metamorphosis of Bangkok, where he was born in 1961, for almost 40 years. This militant artist, who has exhibited in Japan, France and Australia, uses his “Mister Pink” to reveal the flaws in society.

La Peine - Movie

12 octobre 2023| La Peine (Emperors of Nothing), a movie by Cédric Gerbehaye.
The result of a long immersion in the heart of a Brussels prison, La Peine (Emperors of Nothing) is an intimate and unprecedented dive into the depths of the prison condition.

Rencontre – Débat : « VU x Libé »

24 octobre 2023| Bruno Boudjelal, Claudine Doury et Cyril Zannettacci, photographes de l’Agence VU’, ainsi que Lionel Charrier, directeur photo de Libération, débattront de la politique de l’image dans le journal et de son évolution.

Hakanai Sonzai

Atelier EXB - 2023

De la photo à la vidéo : Devenir polyvalent dans sa pratique artistique et professionnelle

VU'éducation | Développement de projet | Du 13 octobre 2023 au 14 janvier 2024 | Paris

You Will Look To The Mountains

Deadbeat Club - 2023

This is Afghanistan

The Miegunyah Press - 2023

Une poignée d'étoiles

Loco - 2023

Arte, Show: Invitation to travel - The Bangkok of the mischievous Mister Pink

On the streets of Bangokok, this character in a pink suit is the work of a daring photographer: Manit Sriwanichpoom, the troublemaker of the Thai photographic scene. With humour, irony and a sense of provocation, he has been capturing the metamorphosis of Bangkok, where he was born in 1961, for almost 40 years. This militant artist, who has exhibited in Japan, France and Australia, uses his “Mister Pink” to reveal the flaws in society.

La Peine - Movie

12 octobre 2023| La Peine (Emperors of Nothing), a movie by Cédric Gerbehaye.
The result of a long immersion in the heart of a Brussels prison, La Peine (Emperors of Nothing) is an intimate and unprecedented dive into the depths of the prison condition.

Rencontre – Débat : « VU x Libé »

24 octobre 2023| Bruno Boudjelal, Claudine Doury et Cyril Zannettacci, photographes de l’Agence VU’, ainsi que Lionel Charrier, directeur photo de Libération, débattront de la politique de l’image dans le journal et de son évolution.

Hakanai Sonzai

Atelier EXB - 2023

De la photo à la vidéo : Devenir polyvalent dans sa pratique artistique et professionnelle

VU'éducation | Développement de projet | Du 13 octobre 2023 au 14 janvier 2024 | Paris

Interview of Françoise Huguier - Radio program "À voix nue" (France Culture)

7 décembre 2022 | "Françoise Huguier, la liberté dans l'objectif." A series of interviews proposed by Caroline Broué.
She is one of the greatest living French photographers. A traveler who has crisscrossed the planet with her camera, from Siberia to Mali via Japan.

Interview of Françoise Huguier - Radio program "Vision(s)"

29 November 2022 | Interview of Françoise Huguier, conducted by Aliocha Boi, 2022.
In this interview, Françoise Huguier talks about her tendency to be "off-topic", of her eclecticism, of her curiosity, which she proudly proclaims. She talks about her childhood, her beginnings as a young photographer in Paris, her career in fashion and photojournalism, and her numerous trips, particularly to Africa.

Interview of Michaël Zumstein - Radio program "Par les temps qui courent" (France Culture)

24 novembre 2022 | Interview of Michaël Zumstein, conducted by Marie Richeux.
A few days after the beginning of the World Football Cup in Qatar, a meeting with the photographer Michaël Zumstein for his book Aka Zidane published by Images plurielles.

From Ukraine: This is war - Conference with Stéphane Duroy and Guillaume Herbaut

November, 22, 2022 | A talk by Stéphane Duroy, Guillaume Herbaut and Michel Poivert, on the occasion of the exhibition "From Ukraine: This is War."

Parler à ceux que l’on n’écoute jamais!

Éditeur : Fiiligranes Éditions Co-éditeur : Prix Caritas Photo Sociale, 2022

Interview - Emission "Vision(s)"

October 26, 2022 | VISION #38 – Claudine Doury
In this interview conducted by Lily Lajeunesse, Claudine Doury talks about her first memories related to photography, the works and authors that inspired her. She talks about her career as a press photographer and about her writing, which was singular from the start but which she nevertheless managed to reconcile with her commissions....

Misr

Le bec en l'air - 2022

Samuel Bollendorff — Frontaliers, des vies en stéréo

October 22, 2022 - February 05, 2023 | Frontaliers, des vies en stéréo is the result of an investigation initiated in early 2020 by Mehdi Ahoudig and Samuel Bollendorff.

Collective exhibition - Galerie VU'

October 12 - November 10, 2022 | Gallery VU’ presents a group show bringing together artworks reflecting on the artists' current projects.

Nos vies partagées

Éditions Contrejour

Pink Man Story

Kathmandu Photo Gallery

Aka Zidane

Images Plurielles - 2022

Ukraine, Terre désirée

Textuel edition, with the support of the Antoine de Galbert Foundation and Amnesty International - 2022

Manifesto of Fragility - Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon

Sept 14 - Dec 31. 2022 | Works by Munem Wasif are on view in the collective exhibition Manifesto of fragility: A world of infinite promise as part as the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art.

MP#03 : announcement of the winners

September 2022 | VU' and the Fonds Régnier pour la Création launch MP#03 and present the 6 emerging photographers who will benefit from the mentoring program from September 2022 to June 2023.

MP#02 exhibition

September 9-23, 2022 | Le Fonds Régnier pour la Création and Agence VU' are presenting the MP#02 exhibition which concludes the second edition of their Photographic Mentorship.

VISA POUR L'IMAGE Festival - 2022

August-September 2022 | Exhibitions, meetings and screenings by VU' photographers on the program of the 2022 edition of the Visa pour l'image International Photojournalism Festival

August in Kabul

MUP - 2022

Sinomocene

Artphilein Editions SA - 2022

Interview - France Culture

July 20, 2022 | Discussion with the photographers Françoise Huguier and Omar Victor Diop who have in common Africa, the taste of the others and a serious sense of the frame between art of the portrait and art of the withdrawal

Interview of Cyril Zannettacci - Polka Magazine

22 juin 2022 | Winner of the Caritas 2022 award for his work in a homeless shelter during Covid, Cyril Zannettacci is a photojournalist who turns his gaze to the growing precariousness in France.

VU' on the road of your 2022 summer holidays

2022 Summer| Take advantage of the summer to discover, or rediscover, the exhibitions of VU' author-photographers

Qatar: the hidden face of the 2022 World Cup

July 16, 2022 | Frédéric Lecloux is invited by the Festival d'Avignon and Amnesty International France to participate in a round table discussion about the hidden face of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar

Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles

Arles 2022 | She dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles.

« Chantiers ouverts au public : conversations photographiques »

June-October 2022 | The carte blanche on the restoration of the Château de Villers-Cotterêts entrusted to Pierre-Olivier Deschamps by the CMN is presented as part of the group exhibition Chantiers ouverts au public : conversations photographiques

Lands of Cinematography

Le Bec en L’Air - 2022

La 89 est-ouest

Filigranes Éditions - 2022

Winner of 2022 Prix Caritas Photo Sociale

AWARD | Cyril Zannettacci is winner of 2022 Prix Caritas Photo Sociale with his series Hospital of the street

Loss of Ouka Leele

May 24th 2022 | Loss of the great Madrid Movida photographer

June Festivals

Juin 2022 | Les expositions de nos auteurs-photographes à découvrir dans les festivals du mois de juin...

The Dolpo Box

June 4 - September 4, 2022 | the Musée d'art contemporain of Montélimar exhibits The Dolpo Box by Frédéric Lecloux.

ImageSingulières: opening weekend

May 26-29 2022 | Works by VU' photographers at openings and screenings during the opening weekend of the documentary photography festival ImageSingulières

2022 Photo Doc. Fair

May 20-22, 2022 | Secrètes by Françoise Huguier at 2022 Photo Doc. Fair

Agnès Propeck & Marc Solal - exhibition

May 2022 | Photographs by Agnès Propeck are exhibited at Regard Sud gallery (Lyon, France) within the exhibition Agnès Propeck & Marc Solal, from May 19 to July 16, 2022.

2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize - Shortlist

AWARD | Adrien Selbert's seriesThe Real Edges is among the 5 finalists in the running for the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize

Spring 2022 exhibitions: Press review

Spring 2022 | Reviews, interviews, recommendations: the press review of our author-photographers' exhibitions to be discovered this spring

Interview of Ferhat Bouda - Arte

April 2022 | Twist, ARTE's weekly cultural program, met Ferhat Bouda at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany) where his exhibition "Photographs and Diaries" is hosted until May 15, 2022.

Il faut ramener Albert

April 21 & 28, 2022 | Broadcast on LCP French tv channel of the documentary by Michaël Zumstein

Interview of Israel Ariño - France 3 Pau Sud-Aquitaine

April 2022 | France 3 dedicates a report to the exhibition of Israel Ariño"Du crépuscule au fil de l’eau", presented in Pau (France) until June 18, 2022.

L'Œil Urbain festival, 2022

April-May 2022 | On the occasion of its 10th edition, the festival L'Œil Urbain exhibits the works of Rip Hopkins, Guillaume Herbaut, Anne Rearick and Darcy Padilla

World Press Photo 2022

PRIX | Guillaume Herbaut et Ismail Ferdous, lauréats du World Press Photo 2022

Ukraine, a war and images - The news interview - Télématin - France 2

March 12 2022 | Guillaume Herbaut was the guest of Télématin "news interview" on France 2.

Spitzbergen

Mare Verlag - 2022

Une théologie de la lumière, par David Sauveur, photographe

Critic | "Une théologie de la lumière, par David Sauveur" : article by Fabien Ribéry on "L'Intervalle" blog

Documentary "Kurdistan mon amour"

February 2022 | Broadcast of the documentary "Kurdistan mon amour"

To the Last Path

Le bec en l'air - 2021

Finaliste Prix Nadar 2021

AWARD | Les Bords réels by Adrien Selbert, published by Le bec en l'air, is shortlisted by the jury of Prix Nadar 2021

Pulsions

La Pionnière - 2021

Oostende

ARP2 - 2021

VU' x Action Against Hunger

October 2021 | Action Against Hunger has called upon 4 authors from Agence VU' to bear witness to the effect of climate change on hunger in 4 regions of the world. These unpublished reports will be screened at the agency during the Nuit Blanche 2021. An exhibition is also proposed at the Galerie VU' from October 3 to 9. And many other projects...

Restoration of the Château de Villers-Cotterêts

September 2021 | Château de Villers-Cotterêts restoration work : exhibition and meeting with Pierre-Olivier Deschamps.

MP#02 : announcement of the winners

September 2021| VU' and the Fonds Régnier pour la Création launch MP#02 and present the 5 emerging photographers who will benefit from the mentoring program from September 2021 to June 2022.

Royal Photographic Society - IPE 163

SHORTLIST | Raphaël Neal is shortlisted for the next IPE 163 exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

AWARD | Pierre-Elie de Pibrac shotlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

The Sound of Silence

Éditions Bessard - 2021

La fotografia al femminile di Guia Besana

May 2021 | Sky Arte's series Le fotografe is a journey into the imagination of eight Italian women photographers and their research into themes rooted in the female sphere. The protagonist of the inaugural episode is Guia Besana.

Sète #21

CéTàVOIR, Le bec en l’air éditions - 2021

The Hal Boyle Award 2021

April 2021 | Andrew Quilty is the laureate of "The Hal Boyle Award" from the Overseas Press Club of America.

Fonds photographique d’auteurs contemporains

March 2021 | Le Fonds photographique d'auteurs contemporains has just been created with the support of the Ministry of Culture in order to help author-photographer structures based in France to cope with the crisis of the Covid-19. Le Fonds photographique d'auteurs contemporains has just been created with the support of the Ministry of Culture in order to help author-photographer structures based in France, in the face of the Covid-19 crisis.

Faire corps

Auto-édition - 2021

Révélateurs

September 2021 | The documentary series "Révélateurs", directed and written by Anaïck Bouhris, portrays a professional and artistic milieu in full mutation while perpetuating a certain idea of auteur photography...

Va-t'en me perdre où tu voudras

Publisher: Poursuite Éditions
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Nolwenn Brod – Les Dahlias Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
This exhibition was produced as part of a creative residency that began in 2021 in Chartres de Bretagne. It is accompanied by a monograph (with a text by Marcelline Delbecq) published by Editions Sur la Crête.
18 November 2023 - 27 January 2024
Françoise Huguier — From woman to women Glaz festival - Betton, Pl Charles de Gaulle, 35830 Betton
Guillaume Herbaut — French Fifth Bibliothèques Elsa Triolet & Émile Aillaud, 4 Rue de l'Union et 60 Av. Edouard Vaillant, 93000 Bobigny
9 November 2023 - 30 December 2023
50 years in the eye of Libé at the Archives nationales Archives nationales, 60 rue des francs Bourgeois, 75003
Alors que Libération fête ses 50 ans au travers d'une série d’expositions et la parution d’un ouvrage éponyme, l’Agence VU’, complice de longue date du quotidien, célèbre à son tour cet anniversaire avec une exposition singulière à la Galerie VU’.
7 November 2023 - 18 February 2024
Nolwenn Brod – The Bleeding Horse Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
Galerie VU' is devoting a major exhibition to the recent work of Nolwenn Brod, bringing together three of her series, Le Temps de l'Immaturité, Les Dahlias and Les Hautes Solitudes.
2 November 2023 - 8 December 2023
Denis Darzacq – Faire corps Galerie Dityvon, BU Belle-Beille, 11 allée François Mitterand – 4900 ANGERS
From his earliest works, Denis Darzacq has considered the representation of the body at the heart of his research: its place in social and political space.
28 September 2023 - 28 October 2023
Denis Dailleux — Parfums d’Orient Institut du Monde Arabe, Tourcoing, France
26 September 2023 - 17 March 2024
Jane Evelyn Atwood – Femmes en prison Le Delta, Avenue Fernand Golenvaux 18, 5000, Namur
Jane Evelyn Atwood began photographing women in prison in 1989 over a ten-year period.
23 September 2023 - 28 January 2024
Ismail Ferdous – Sea Beach Galerie PICTO NY, 77 Washington Avenue
Beaches all over the world have their own culture, a natural blend of local traditions and what tourists have to offer. This is how beaches develop their distinct personality, and Cox’Bazar – the world’s longest natural beach in Bangladesh – has its own identity.
22 September 2023 - 22 November 2023
Steeve Iuncker – Et nos morts? La photographie post mortem aujourd’hui en Europe Maison Robert Doisneau, 1 rue Division du Général Leclerc Gentilly
As part of the Et nos morts exhibition, La Maison Robert Doisneau is bringing together the work of several photographers. It is in this context that an extract from the Levées de corps series will be presented.
22 September 2023 - 18 February 2024
Pierre-Elie de Pibrac – Ephemeral portrait of Japan Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, 6 place d’Iéna 75116 Paris
The Musée Guimet presents the photographic project Hakanai Sonzai, which in Japanese means "I feel myself to be an ephemeral creature".
20 September 2023 - 15 January 2024
Denis Darzacq – La Chute LES PHOTAUMNALES, Beauvais (FRANCE)
"La Chute" is an outstanding link between photojournalism and Denis Darzacq's artistic research. Inspired by a report on hip-hop dancers, the series features young people captured in the instant of a jump, without recourse to digital collage.
16 September 2023 - 31 December 2023
Christer Strömholm Estate – Les Amies de Place Blanche Galerie 2 - Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris
Christer Strömholm entreprend dans les années 1960 une série photographique sur les travestis et la communauté trans de Pigalle, qu'il publie une vingtaine d'années plus tard dans un ouvrage "Les Amies de Place Blanche" (1983). Il y relate le quotidien de ces figures marginales du Paris nocturne, à une période où l'homosexualité est encore largement stigmatisée.
6 September 2023 - 25 March 2024
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