PRODUCTIONS

Pension reform: a surge of social conflict

Series | At the beginning of 2023, the government introduced its pension reform project – an extension of the age of legal retirement from 62 to 64 or a prolongation of the contribution period – as non-negotiable. In response to this lack of dialogue with the social members, a wave of strikes spread throughout France.

Passenger, 2021

Série | Associating colour with black and white esthetic, the "Passenger" corpus extends the initiation journey that is dear to Martin Bogren's photographic writing.

War in Ukraine: Over one year of conflict, 2023

Series | As we approach the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, let's look back at one of the worst military conflicts in Europe since the Second World War.

The world of feathers, 2022

Series | Feathers have become instruments of knowledge, travel, and openness to the world, but also a rediscovery of the treasures of the craft. From feather duster to haute couture, from cabaret to taxidermy, the traveling feather crosses continents.

Dear Soldier, 2022

Series | On the 9th of December, 2022 : Le Monde's journalist Ariane Chemin and Guillaume Herbaut found a hundred letters sent by Russian students to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The letters reveal the propaganda orchestrated by Moscow.

Gabinete de curiosidades, 2022

Series | Composed of objects loaded with symbols in the places of his childhood, now abandoned and almost in ruins, the images of Gabinete de Curiosidades explore the personal universe of Juan Manuel Castro Prieto.

Spitzbergen, 2015-2022

Series | A document on the little known role of scientists who come to observe and try to understand global climate change on the small Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, in the town of Ny Alesund, 1000km from the North Pole.

Pension reform: a surge of social conflict

Series | At the beginning of 2023, the government introduced its pension reform project – an extension of the age of legal retirement from 62 to 64 or a prolongation of the contribution period – as non-negotiable. In response to this lack of dialogue with the social members, a wave of strikes spread throughout France.

Passenger, 2021

Série | Associating colour with black and white esthetic, the "Passenger" corpus extends the initiation journey that is dear to Martin Bogren's photographic writing.

War in Ukraine: Over one year of conflict, 2023

Series | As we approach the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, let's look back at one of the worst military conflicts in Europe since the Second World War.

The world of feathers, 2022

Series | Feathers have become instruments of knowledge, travel, and openness to the world, but also a rediscovery of the treasures of the craft. From feather duster to haute couture, from cabaret to taxidermy, the traveling feather crosses continents.

Dear Soldier, 2022

Series | On the 9th of December, 2022 : Le Monde's journalist Ariane Chemin and Guillaume Herbaut found a hundred letters sent by Russian students to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The letters reveal the propaganda orchestrated by Moscow.

Gabinete de curiosidades, 2022

Series | Composed of objects loaded with symbols in the places of his childhood, now abandoned and almost in ruins, the images of Gabinete de Curiosidades explore the personal universe of Juan Manuel Castro Prieto.

Spitzbergen, 2015-2022

Series | A document on the little known role of scientists who come to observe and try to understand global climate change on the small Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, in the town of Ny Alesund, 1000km from the North Pole.

NEWS

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....

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....

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.

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

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

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.

Award of Excellence Pictures of the Year 2022

AWARD | POYi - Ismail Ferdous received an Award of Excellence for his story "Sea Beach"

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"

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

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

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.

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...

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Guillaume Herbaut – Ukraine, Terre désirée. 2001-2022 Espace Cosmopolis – Centre culturel, Passage, 18 Rue Scribe, 44000 Nantes
Some sixty photos retrace the contemporary history of Ukraine. Orange Revolution, Euromaidan, Donbass, Crimea, and today's Russian invasion, Guillaume Herbaut paints the portrait of a people fighting for their freedom.
6 April 2023 - 7 May 2023
Françoise Huguier – L’Œil Urbain Halle du marché, Place du Comte Haymon, 91100 Corbeil-Essonne
Singapore, a city-state in South-East Asia and the largest container port in the region, has become a "research powerhouse" in the most advanced fields in recent years. But the originality of this city-state is the HDB system. (Housing Development Board) system, which facilitates access to home ownership.
31 March 2023 - 20 May 2023
Ferhat Bouda – L’Œil Urbain Galerie d’art municipale, 16 allées Aristide-Briand, 91100 Corbeil-Essonne
Singular and plural, the Berber culture is one of the oldest but also the most unknown and threatened in North Africa. The Amazighs (or Berbers, a term that means "free man") occupy a vast territory that spreads from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the Siwa oasis in Egypt.
31 March 2023 - 20 May 2023
Guillaume Herbaut – Ukraine, Terre Désirée Bibliothèque Universitaire Le Havre, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, 76600 Le Havre
Guillaume Herbaut is exhibiting a selection of his images taken in Ukraine between 2001 and 2022. This retrospective of photographs offers a vision, a narrative on Ukraine, the result of a documentary work inscribed in the long term.
27 March 2023 - 27 May 2023
Rip Hopkins – Gardiens 06 Espace Lympia, 2 quai Entrecasteaux, 06300 Nice
In an approach that is at once anthropological, documentary and artistic, Rip Hopkins has produced this original photographic series dedicated to the jobs of guards.
18 March 2023 - 28 May 2023
Anne Rearick – Pays Basque Theâtre La Passerelle, 137 Boulevard Georges Pompidou, 05000 Gap
Through her tender and sincere approach, without artifice, her capture of the subtle vibrations of light, Anne Rearick gives a very accurate account of this region that seeks to preserve its own culture.
9 March 2023 - 3 May 2023
Bruno Boudjelal  — Mères d’exil La Cité Miroir, Place Xavier Neujean 22, 4000 Liège
As part of the exhibition Mères d'exil, which gathers the works of thirty artists who worked on this theme, La Cité Miroir presents two series by Bruno Boudjelal, "Les paysages du départ", and a continuous screening of his film "Harragas".
18 February 2023 - 28 May 2023
Exposition collective – Éblouissements Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
This exhibition is about light. It is of course the very material of photography, but it is also what composes it or devours it, what shapes the subject or erases it. The works of our authors, whether in black and white or in colour, silver or digital, produced by electronograms (without light), in the camera or with a scanner, are all apprehensions and experiences of light.
17 February 2023 - 24 March 2023
Manit Sriwanichpoom – Pink, Black & Blue HOP - Hub Of photography, Bangkok, Thailande
The worldwide imprisonment of the pandemic lockdown gave photo-artist Manit Sriwanichpoom the quiet time he needed to complete the long-overdue compilation of his iconic Pink Man series, as well as two other books of previously unseen work of extraordinary intensity: the transcendental ‘I Saw A Blue Wing’ and the dark joy of ‘When I Was Twenty’. A rare visual feast, ‘Pink, Black & Blue’ is an exhibition comprising works from all three collections.
11 February 2023 - 9 April 2023
Claudine Doury – Amour, une odyssée sibérienne ImageSingulières - Centre Photographique Documentaire, 17, rue Lacan 34 200 Sète
Claudine Doury first went in Far Eastern Siberia in 1991 and again in 1997 to witness the lives of native peoples. Traveling along the banks of the Amur River, she passed through the villages of Nergen, Bulava, Ush Gur, and Bogorodskoye. A trip filled with surprising encounters, endearing figures and marked by what Claudine Doury feels when Love flows into the sea: "The end of Love is of infinite sadness. Its silty waters mingle with those of the Sea of Okhotsk, opposite the island of Sakhalin, the prison of the tsars. The sky seems bigger there than elsewhere, stretching its whiteness to the Pacific.”
20 January 2023 - 9 April 2023
Christophe Goussard – Fleuves Vieille Église Mérignac, Rue de la Vieille Église, 33700 Mérignac, France
Conceived as a dive into 30 years of photography, Fleuves is a tender and dreamlike rereading of the work that Christophe Goussard carries out by the waters since the beginning.
14 January 2023 - 9 April 2023
Nolwenn Brod – Les hautes solitudes Musée de Bretagne - Les Champs Libres, 10 cours des Alliés – 35000 Rennes
On the occasion of a creative residency offered by the Museum of Brittany at the Champs Libres, Nolwenn Brod chose to take this meticulous look at her native city, Brest. She delivers here a multiple and delicate portrait, from the military institution to the intimacy of the rooms, scrutinizing in the walls as well as on the faces the hidden stories of the city and the different forms of relationship to the living.
26 November 2022 - 30 April 2023
Vanessa Winship – She dances on Jackson Galerie Le Carré d'Art - Centre Culturel Pôle Sud, 1 rue de la Conterie - 35131 Chartres de Bretagne
For more than a year, Vanessa Winship travelled the United States, from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana, in search of the American dream. She dances on Jackson reads like a conversation, a poetic and rhythmic interplay between landscapes and portraits that explore the vastness of the United States, aiming to understand the bond that is created between a territory and its inhabitants.
18 November 2022 - 11 January 2023
Bernard Descamps – Au-delà des apparences Château de Tours, 25 Avenue André Malraux, 37 000 TOURS
Rather than freezing the imagination in a blissful admiration of the sublime and the otherworldly, Bernard Descamps opens back doors and harmoniously brings together cultures that are far removed from each other, allowing him to express his emotions.
28 October 2022 - 13 April 2023