PRODUCTIONS

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.

Dark Souvenirs, 2023

Series | As I was travelling for assignments or personal projects, I began to systematically look for these souvenirs of trips: Chernobyl and its snowball of the catastrophe; Putin declined in several forms through time; Bin Laden after 9/11.

Science in India, a female universe, 2023

Series | In India, more and more women attempt at breaking the rules and at making a place for themselves in a scientific landscape where social and cultural barriers are still present.

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.

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.

Dark Souvenirs, 2023

Series | As I was travelling for assignments or personal projects, I began to systematically look for these souvenirs of trips: Chernobyl and its snowball of the catastrophe; Putin declined in several forms through time; Bin Laden after 9/11.

Science in India, a female universe, 2023

Series | In India, more and more women attempt at breaking the rules and at making a place for themselves in a scientific landscape where social and cultural barriers are still present.

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.

NEWS

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

Création d'un livre d'artiste - La destination est le chemin

VU'éducation | Acquisition de compétences | Du 24 au 26 juillet 2023 | Moulin de la Fontaine (Thoré-la-Rochette)

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.

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

Création d'un livre d'artiste - La destination est le chemin

VU'éducation | Acquisition de compétences | Du 24 au 26 juillet 2023 | Moulin de la Fontaine (Thoré-la-Rochette)

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.

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

Denis Dailleux – MISR Abbaye Royale de l'Epau, Route de Changé 72530 Yvré l'Evêque
Misr is the romanized Arabic name for Egypt. It all began in 1992 with an unexpected encounter on the Paris metro. It was love at first sight with Chérif, whom Denis left to join in Egypt. As soon as he stepped off the plane, he was seduced by the country. "I immediately saw happiness in the streets, an enjoyment of the moment and a lot of eccentricity". Denis Dailleux
21 June 2023 - 6 November 2023
Bernard Descamps – Natura Festival Photo La Gacilly - Baden, Brusattiplatz 3, 2500 Baden près de Vienne
For 50 years and more, Bernard Descamps has been exploring, with poetry and in black and white, all the corners of the planet as well as all the genres of his art, imposing himself as an eternal unclassifiable and tireless traveler. In his exhibition "Natura", presented as part of the La Gacilly Photo Festival, the photographer presents his travel photographs which seem to escape time as if in a dream.
15 June 2023 - 15 October 2023
Rodrigo Gomez Rovira – ANVERS 1996 VALPARAISO Festival Photo du Guilvinec, 29730 Guilvinec
After more than 20 years of exile in France, Rodrigo Gomez Rovira embarked in 1996 for 45 days of crossing on a Polish cargo ship to reach Chile. He then takes his first photographs of his native country, and settles there.
1 June 2023 - 30 September 2023
Guillaume Zuili – Walking In The Lines Galerie Net Plus, 60 A rue de la Rigourdière – 35510 Cesson-Sévigné
During his stay, the photographer focused on the route between ViaSilva and downtown Rennes, following the new subway line. He kept on exploring urban landscapes, focusing on techniques and laboratory prints to reveal their atmospheres.
25 May 2023 - 25 August 2023
Rip Hopkins – Plumassiers Musée de l'affiche de Toulouse, 58 Allées Charles de Fitte, 31300 Toulouse
This exhibition reveals the world of feather makers who have entrusted the secrets of their trade to the photographer Rip Hopkins. Hardly known among to the general public, feather makers remain discreet and stay in the shadows; for reasons of modesty and preservation of their precious craftsmanship, handed down from generation to generation, often within the same family.
24 May 2023 - 12 November 2023
Malik Nejmi – Dieu va ouvrir la mer Forum de l'Humathèque Condorcet, 10 cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers
This exhibition and the book that follows it represent an unprecedented dive into the daily life of the "house churches" founded by Christian migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in apartments in the outskirts of Rabat.
18 May 2023 - 30 June 2023
Rodrigo Gomez Rovira – 1973 CHILE 2023 Le Cyclo, 5 Rue du 14 Juillet, 34200 Sète
« My earliest childhood memories date back to the time of the military coup in Chile. I remember the fireplace where my mother used to burn books at night. I remember when a man knocked on the door at sunset, he was on the street at curfew time. My mother opened the door, handed him a blanket and a plate of food, he spent the night in the hallway. I remember the air travel. »
18 May 2023 - 11 June 2023
Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt — Vanden Eeckhoudt Chapelle du Quartier Haut, 2-10 Rue Borne, 34200 Sète
Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt worked exclusively with black and white silver film, which he shot himself. He mainly photographed living things, people at work, animals in the street, in parks, in the countryside or in zoos.
18 May 2023 - 11 June 2023
Rodrigo Gomez Rovira – Echo des silences Château de Seix, Montée du Château, 09140 Seix
From Ùltimo Sur to the Register of Travelers, from Tierra del Fuego to Couserans, the Chilean photographer travels through spectacular lands and sketches life stories.
11 May 2023 - 18 June 2023
Françoise Huguier – Russie oubliée Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
« En rééditant toutes mes photos, un autre voyage a émergé, davantage un état des lieux : l’urgence, aujourd’hui, surtout dans le Grand Nord, porte sur la fonte des glaces et le réchauffement climatique, dont on parlait peu en 1992. On voit pourtant clairement sur les images que le processus avait déjà commencé. Il me semble important de le montrer. »
10 May 2023 - 16 June 2023
The Brazilian photographer is the author of an image that went viral in April 2018, at the time of the unjust arrest of Lula da Silva.
12 April 2023 - 31 May 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