Exhibitions
Aline Diépois & Thomas Gizolme — Le diable marche avec nous
Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
In the heart of the Vosges, while accompanying a friend to her father's funeral, Aline Diépois and Thomas Gizolme go to his house. They have never met this man and know very little about him. They are going to photograph this deserted place of life but still impregnated with his presence, left in state by the deceased.
David Sauveur – To the Last Path
Festival Etonnants Voyageurs, Saint-Malo
Produced between 1999 and 2004, To the Last Path is a poetic interlude in the chaotic race of the world that David Sauveur documents for the press. Like an essential echo to his images of conflict zones, the Polaroids he collects during his meditative immersion in the historic city reveal all the singularity of Jerusalem, between fragility and radiance, suspension and the passage of time.
Munem Wasif – Salt Water Tears
Festival Photo du Guilvinec, 29730 Guilvinec
Munem Wasif went to meet the community of Satkhira in southwest Bangladesh, a region affected by the ravages of climate change. He photographed its inhabitants, collected their testimonies, revealing the numerous problems of water supply and the risks they face on a daily basis. See his work at the Festival L'Homme et la Mer in Guilvinec.
Bernard Descamps – Natura
Festival Photo La Gacilly, France
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.
Trees – Reporters Sans Frontières et le Festival La Gacilly Photo
Festival Photo La Gacilly, France
In partnership with Reporters Sans Frontières, the La Gacilly Photo Festival is exhibiting photographs from the next RSF album, which features 12 of the agency's photographers.
Raphael Neal – New Waves
Festival ImageSingulières, Sète, France
From May 26 to August 14, the diptychs of the French-English Raphaël Neal, which question us on the upheavals and the contradictions linked to the climate change, will be displayed on the facade of the Centre photographique in Sète.
This year, Mérignac Photo invites Agence VU’ to present the work of eight women photographers. This edition brings together several generations of talented female authors, young or experimented, invested in different fields of photography. They each have a particular story to tell, in their own way.
Frédéric Lecloux – Népal. Epiphanies du quotidien
Festival Photo du Guilvinec, 29730 Guilvinec
Within the public space and through a circuit designed around the Médiathèque of Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Frédéric Lecloux exhibits his series of photographs on the contemporary issues of Nepal. Epiphanies of the everyday towards other summits, to discover or rediscover this Himalayan country with multiple facets.
Through the sensitive eye of photographer Pierre-Olivier Deschamps, the exhibition takes an artistic and documentary look at the exceptional architectural and museographic renovation that took place at Château Perrier from 2018 to 2020.
L’Oeil Urbain, festival photographique : Anne Rearick — Township
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
"My work in South Africa came about by chance. While exploring amateur boxing in the United States and abroad, I was led to visit the Luyviso club, set up in an old house converted into a sports hall, in Khayelitsha, a Township 40 kilometers from Cape Town...". Anne Rearick's "Township" series is on display at the Corbeil-Essonnes theater for the duration of L'Oeil Urbain Festival.
Brigitte Grignet – Les jours qui restent
Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale, 79000 Niort
Brigitte Grignet, a photographer who uses a documentary approach based on personal relationships and emotion, presents her series "Les jours qui restent" (The days that remain) at the Pierre Moinot media library in Niort as part of the 26th edition of the Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale.
L’Oeil Urbain Festival : Rip Hopkins — Odyssée 2022
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
Rip Hopkins spent 15 days in Corbeil-Essonnes, for a new format of a residency in the heart of the city and with its actors: associations, municipal services, shops and places of life. He created an original photographic series, as funny and sensitive as an odyssey, exhibited on the city's billboards for the duration of L'Oeil Urbain Festival.
L’Oeil Urbain, festival photographique : Guillaume Herbaut — Terre désirée
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
"Like the leopard-spotted contamination of Chernobyl, Ukraine is currently divided into different zones: contaminated zones, zones of war, zones of peace, like a mirror of the future of our societies." Guillaume Herbaut presents his series "Terre désirée" on Ukraine at the Commanderie Saint-Jean in Corbeil-Essonnes, during the entire duration of L'Oeil Urbain Festival.
L’Oeil Urbain, festival photographique : Darcy Padilla — The Julie Project
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
For 18 years, Darcy Padilla followed Julie, a young woman living with AIDS. Julie's story is an intimate account of poverty, AIDS and social problems in the United States. "The Julie Project" will be screened at the Commanderie Saint-Jean throughout l'Oeil Urbain Festival.
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto — Vanitas
Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
Based on a phrase from Ecclesiastes, Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), Juan Manuel Castro Prieto composes a set exploring the transience of existence, the fragility of memory and the deterioration of the territory. These photographs with a golden glow, imbued with disquieting mysteries, allow us to discover the depths of his dreams.
Israel Ariño — Du crépuscule au fil de l’eau
Espace culturel E.Leclerc Pau, Av. Louis Sallenave, 64000 Pau
This exhibition brings together two of Israel Ariño's major series: "La pesanteur du lieu", a dreamlike wandering capturing the emergence of things that manifest themselves in the night and "Au gré du courant", for which he followed the poetic drift along the Evre des Eaux Étroites by Julien Gracq. In his images, from dusk to dawn, the ordinary takes the place of the extraordinary.
Guillaume Herbaut – Україна, Ukraine
Géopolis, 58 rue des Tanneurs, Bruxelles (Belgique)
The Brussels photojournalism center Géopolis dedicates its new cycle of exhibitions to the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion and exhibits the work of Guillaume Herbaut from March 31 to May 29, 2022.
Denis Darzacq — Reconstruction
Gare routière de Bobigny, rue Pablo Picasso
The MC93 reinvents its action on the territory with the help of photographer Denis Darzacq, who wishes to document the transformation of the "heart of the city" of Bobigny. In the series "BOBIGNY 2 - Reconstruction", the photographer makes the deconstructed shopping center the theater of the mutations of the life of the youth, its interactions, its hopes and its trials in time of pandemic.
Ferhat Bouda — Photographs and Diaries
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
In impressive visual narratives, the photographer, himself from a Berber family, documents the life and survival of these cultures in transition. For ten years, he has photographed the daily lives of the Imazighen (“free people”), as they call themselves, across North Africa. The exhibition also features Bouda’s images of the diversity of the Frankfurt metropolis – people at religious celebrations, street demonstrations, in the middle of the main train station or the banking district.
Brooke DiDonato — As Usual
Cité de l'image de Clervaux, Luxembourg
As part as its 2021/2022 programming on the theme of "Breaking the mould. Giving shape", La Cité de l'image de Clervaux exhibits As Usual by Brooke DiDonato.
Christophe Goussard et Guillaume Herbaut – Printemps Photographique de Pomerol
Printemps Photographique Pomerol, Libourne (FRANCE)
Join Christophe Gousssard for his exhibition "Les autres, balade araméenne" and Guillaume Herbaut for a commented projection of his work at the Printemps Photographique de Pomerol.
Guillaume Herbaut – Ukraine, terre désirée
Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne, 1, boulevard de la Marquette 31090 Toulouse
In solidarity with Ukraine, the Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne is exhibiting Guillaume Herbaut's series Ukraine, terre désirée (2002-2022) on the fences of the Hôtel du Département.
Françoise Huguier — L’Afrique Secrète
Galerie Art-Z, 27 rue Keller 75011 Paris
This exhibition parallels Françoise Huguier's 1996 series "Secrètes" (Secret), produced in Burkina Faso and Mali, with her own collection of prints by the great African photographers Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. This long-standing friendship is presented here for the first time.
Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt
Musée de la Photographie - Centre d'art contemporain de la fédération Wallonie, Av. Paul Pastur 11, 6032 Charleroi, Belgique
The exhibition devoted to the work of Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt presents nearly 250 photographs, half of which are unpublished. Each of these images composes a small story, a chronicle of the banality that he sublimates.
Paolo Verzone — Traversées d’Europe
Grilles des Jardin du Luxembourg, Rue Médicis - 75006 Paris
To celebrate the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2022, the exhibition Traversées d'Europe (Crossings of Europe) brings together six long-term transnational projects, six unique and original perspectives on Europe. Paolo Verzone's Cadets series will be exhibited: a project that took him across Europe to capture the portraits of cadets from the continent's greatest military academies.
Ferhat Bouda, Andrew Quilty, Cyril Zannettacci et Catalina Martin-Chico — “Surexposés”, le dérèglement climatique VU’ par Action contre la Faim
Maison des Arts de Créteil, Place Salvador Allende, 94000 Créteil
Action Against Hunger has called upon four photographers from Agence VU’ to bear witness to the effect of climate change on hunger in four regions of the world.
Christian Poveda, Jane Evelyn Atwood — VIH / sida, L’épidémie n’est pas finie !
MUCEM, 1 Esp. J4, 13002 Marseille
The exhibition "HIV/AIDS, the epidemic is not over" traces the social and political history of AIDS. Taking a retrospective and contemporary look at the epidemic as well as at the mobilizations it has generated, it wishes to contribute to the fight. Photographs from the series "Act Up" (2009) by Christian Poveda as well as those from the series "Jean-Louis: Living and Dying with AIDS" (1987) by Jane Evelyn Atwood will be exhibited on this occasion.
Bruno Boudjelal — Détours-Retour
Cité Musicale de Metz
The Cité Musicale of Metz is exhibiting "Détours-retour" by Bruno Boudjelal at the Arsenal, a work that combines a quest for identity in the land of his origins with a testimony on contemporary Algeria.
Frédéric Lecloux — Territoires du cinématographe
Médiathèque Jean Ferrat, 2 Faubourg Camille Laprade, 07200 Aubenas
Since autumn 2019, following an invitation from the Maison de l'image d'Aubenas and the association Les Écrans de Valence, as part of the artist residency "Itinérances" offered by the Ardèche department, Frédéric Lecloux has been photographing the region's cinemas.
This exhibition at the Médiathèque and in the town of Aubenas presents a large selection of his work, as well as extracts from his residency journal.
Anne Rearick — True West
La Pocket Galerie, 9 rue Saint Martin 61340 Perche-en-Nocé
As part of her residency at Perche-en-Nocé, Anne Rearick presents her series "True West" on the rural world of her childhood.
Pierre-Elie de Pibrac — In Lumine
Planche(s) Contact - Festival de Créations Photographiques, Deauville, France
With In Lumine, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac invites us to discover, or rediscover, Normandy through films such as: Un singe en hiver, Quai des Brumes, Les Valseuses, Le jour le plus long or even La Boum and, more recently, Eté 85. Through this series, he witnesses a cinematographic past playing with the codes of photography and our relationship to the image.
Stéphane Duroy — Années Allemandes
Galerie Dityvon, BU Belle-Beille, 11 allée François Mitterand – 4900 ANGERS
The exhibition "Années Allemandes" is dedicated to the photographer Stéphane Duroy- great witness of the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Anita Conti — Eaux Troubles, Eaux Vagabondes
Vraiment???, Bourg-en-Bresse 01000
The 2021 edition of Vraiment ??? is dedicated to the theme of water: from streams to sea areas, from the essential H2O to the symbolism of liquid, whether we are talking about the exploitation caused by tourism, the lack or the overflow of water, water as a vital element, the sharing of resources or the crossing of sea areas to escape danger or to imagine a better life.
This year, Vraiment ??? is exhibiting a selection of Anita Conti's images for this second edition entitled "Eaux Troubles, Eaux Vagabondes".
Stéphane Duroy— Photography, And Then…
Fotokino, 33 Allée Léon Gambetta, Marseille, France
« Photography, And Then… » propose une relecture du parcours hors norme de l'artiste Stéphane Duroy, à travers une sélection de photographies issues de ses différentes séries, réalisées à Berlin, en Grande Bretagne ou dans le Montana, mêlées à des exemplaires uniques de son livre Unknown #2, ainsi que des toiles récentes peintes à l’acrylique.
Hiên Lâm Duc — Enfance, enfances
Bibliothèques Elsa Triolet & Émile Aillaud, 4 Rue de l'Union et 60 Av. Edouard Vaillant, 93000 Bobigny
When do children start to become children ? Until when, are they children ? When can they use weapons ? What about equality between girls and boys? What about the right of children to have a say in decisions that influence them?
From Asia to Bolivia and Africa, Lâm Duc Hiên has collected the smiling or bruised faces of the world's children.
Cyril Zannettacci, Andrew Quilty, Ferhat Bouda, Catalina Martin-Chico – Poussières
Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
Around the world, droughts, heat waves and floods are becoming more frequent and longer.
Whether in Chad, Panama, Afghanistan or Kenya, the four photographers are looking at the deep connections between people and their environment. VU' and Action Against Hunger invite the public to discover the project as a whole and in the exceptional conditions of the Nuit Blanche 2021.
Pierre-Elie de Pibrac — Desmemoria
Centre Intermondes, 11 bis rue des Augustins, 17000, La Rochelle
Through this testimony, Pierre-Elie opens a reflection on the identity of Cubans and the influence of sugar production on it. He won the Levallois Prize with this project.
S. Bollendorff, S. Chivet, D.M Smith, P. Verzone — Themed Fortnight 01, Expo 2020
Exposition Universelle Dubaï 2020, Pavillon Français, Dubaï (EAU)
For the first themed fortnight - dedicated to the topic of biodiversity - the French pavilion has called on Agence VU' to exhibit the photographs of Sophie Chivet, Paolo Verzone and Samuel Bollendorff and David Maurice Smith, highlighting the issues involved in protecting biodiversity.
Patrick Taberna — Le Festival du Regard
Festival du Regard -, Mail des Cerclades, 95000 Cergy
The sixth edition of the Festival du Regard explores the intimate work of Patrick Taberna, which is as much a family autobiography as a travel diary.
Yvon Lambert — Derniers Feux
Archives Nationales du Luxembourg, 2 Plateau du Saint-Esprit, 1475 Luxembourg
With this series of black and white photographs, a lasting monument to the vanished world of Luxembourg's blast furnaces and steelworks, Yvon Lambert is preserving this part of the country's history and heritage from oblivion while paying tribute to the life and work of the men who were at the heart of it.
Samuel Bollendorff — Contaminations & Les larmes de sirènes
Jardin Ephémère Nancy, Pl. Stanislas, 54063 Nancy
"In 2018 I have been around the world. I have seen how small and fragile it is. Wherever I looked, I witnessed many disasters. A dead river for six hundred and fifty kilometers, deformed fish, radioactive forests, children born without eyes, nuclear waste trafficking, falsified reports by corrupted states, drifting plastic waste in the middle of an ocean that has become the first link in a degenerate food chain. How did we let this happen?" -Samuel Bollendorff
Guillaume Herbaut — The Vth
Visa pour l’image, 66000 Perpignan, France
Through the jolts of political and social life, this work questions the representation of the French Republic today.
Maia Flore — Saisons
Alliance française de Calgary, #350, 1721 29th ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Maia Flore creates photographs in which she puts herself on stage, in a particular aesthetic and research. She gives free rein to her senses and intuitions, constantly challenging the rules of representation.
Claudine Doury — Amour
Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Route du 2 Rang, Maria, QC G0C 1Y0, Canada
Claudine Doury went to the Russian Far East for the first time in 1991, then in 1997, to witness the lives of the people who settled along the banks of the Amur River.
Christophe Goussard — Entre fleuve et rivière
L'été photographique, Lectoure
Photographers Christophe Goussard and Charles-Frédérick Ouellet deliver a very personal reading of the landscapes of the Basque Country and Labrador, in search of fictional or real traces of the other's territory.
Sur un pli du temps (title borrowed from a poem by Bernard Noël) is a wander through the photographic universe of Gérard Rondeau organised by the Communauté de communes du Haut-Lignon (Haute-Loire) in July and August 2021.
Hugues de Wurstemberger — Sète #21
Festival ImageSingulières, Sète, France
Each year, ImageSingulières invites a photographer in residence in Sète and around the Bassin de Thau...
Magali Lambert — Regards croisés sur la nature
Château de Saumur, Château de Saumur, 49400, Saumur
The exhibition Regards croisés sur la nature (Crossed views of nature) brings together pieces from the zoological collection of the Château-Musée de Saumur and photographs by Magali Lambert, using the principle of dioramas of Natural History Museums.
Françoise Huguier — Corée du Sud, Virtual Seoul
Photo Festival de Saint-Brieuc, 5 rue du 71e Régiment d’Infanterie, 22000, Saint-Brieuc
"Virtual Seoul" illustrates Korea today in all its uniqueness and diversity.
Martin Bogren — Passenger
Institut Suédois, 11 Rue Payenne, 75003, Paris
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and as part of its year dedicated to the theme of Friendship, the Swedish Institute is giving carte blanche to several French contemporary art and photography galleries that have supported and represented Swedish artists for many years. As part of this invitation, Galerie VU' presents Passenger by Martin Bogren.
Bertrand Desprez — Kruzenstern
Festival Photo du Guilvinec, 29730 Guilvinec
In February 1991, "I joined Odessa accompanied by Jean François Pahun, a journalist, to embark on the Kruzenstern".
Denis Dailleux — Ghana, we shall meet again
Festival Photo du Guilvinec, 29730 Guilvinec
In a search for new locations, he found his way to Ghana, where the fishermen of the port of Jamestown turned out to be a rich source of images: seascapes with changing skies, the dance of the fishermen, the movements of women and children around the port…
Denis Dailleux — Années 90, de mon village à Persan
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (PAYS-BAS)
Années 90, de mon village à Persan includes Gens de mon village (1987-1990), Tante Juliette (1987-2002), Persan-Beaumont (1987-1992), the first three series by Denis Dailleux.
Philippe Brault, Jean-Robert Dantou, Claude Pauquet, Adrien Selbert et Cyril Zannettacci — L’Âge d’or, une épopée politique
Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, 2, place Léon Gontier, 80000, Amiens
Conceived with the co-writer Roxanne Moreil, the exhibition at the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens highlights the committed dimension of The Golden Age.
Denis Dailleux — Efflorescence
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (PAYS-BAS)
A common thread unites these 23 pictures: the flower. A theme that goes back to his beginnings in Paris.
Hiên Lâm Duc — The Mekong, stories of man
Photo Hanoi, 24 Tràng Tiền, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Viêt Nam
Hiên Lâm Duc traveled the Mekong river on a 4,200 km stretch, following its waters from the bustling River of Nine Dragons delta in Vietnam all the way to its source in the snow-covered Tibetan plateau.
Ludovic Carème — Brésils
Theâtre La Passerelle, 137 Boulevard Georges Pompidou, 05000 Gap
From a small favela in the heart of Sao Paulo to the depths of the Amazon, a photographic journey between documentary and poetry that questions the current situation in Brazil.
Pierre-Olivier Deschamps — Architecture et photographie
Galerie Caue 92, 9, place Nelson Mandela, 92000, Nanterre
For the 2017 Month of Photography, Pierre-Olivier Deschamps presents an excerpt from his series on the locations of the future stations of the Grand Paris public transportation network in a group exhibition that brings together photography and architecture.
In theaters or under the stars, urban or rural, in the rare time of a festival or the long time of daily life, sometimes for a hundred spectators and sometimes for thousands... the "cinematograph", as Robert Bresson persisted in calling it, adapts itself to the multiple territory of the Ardèche.
Anita Conti — Les Océans
Festival du Regard, Gare Saint-Lazare, 13 Rue d'Amsterdam, Paris
For its 5th edition on the theme of "Extraordinary Journeys", the Festival du Regard presents an exhibition of Anita Conti, in the framework of the partnership "Gares & Connexions".
Adrien Selbert — Les Bords Réels
Halle aux Grains, Place Deffuas, 87200, Saint-Junien
There was a country that experienced a war. It is said to have been fratricidal, religious and ethnic.
Bruno Boudjelal — Goudron Tanger-Le Cap
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
"To travel from North to South Africa is an idea that may not be original! Yet many explorers, travellers and before them traders have done it long before. Today these paths, which we would like to take freely and travel across this continent, do not exist!
Guillaume Zuili — Memory Lane
Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
In order to give an account of the city's industrial heritage and architecture, Guillaume Zuili works exclusively with silver and uses a chemical process called The Lith to reveal his images.
Paolo Verzone — Arctic Zero
Cité de l'image de Clervaux, Luxembourg
For the past few years Paolo Verzone has been documenting the inhabitants of one of the world’s norther-most communities, Ny-Ålesund.
Pierre-Elie de Pibrac — In Situ
Festival Kyotographie, Japon
Working at the Paris Opéra for two ballet seasons from 2013 to 2015, Pibrac mingled with the dancers and shared in their theatre life to create his three-part In Situ series...
Ouka Leele — Figure de la movida madrilène
Le Parvis (Espace culture), Pau, France
An active figure in Madrid's Movida, Ouka Leele imposed, from the end of the 1970s and the Spanish cultural revolution initiated after Franco's death, a photographic work revealing a surrealist and singular poetics of everyday life.
Jane Evelyn Atwood — Photographies 1976-2010
La filature de Mulhouse, France
Organised around major series (prostitutes, the blind, women in prison, Jean-Louis / Living and dying of AIDS) and photographs on different topics, the exhibition recounts 35 years of work.
Maia Flore — Saint-Malo « d’îles en lune »
Hors les murs, Saint-Malo
Each year, two confirmed artists, a photographer and a writer are in residence in Brittany (3 years / 3 cities) to create a work on the theme "dreamed territory". The work (about 30 images and texts) is exhibited in the public space of the partner city and is the subject of an art book published by Editions Contrejour.
Ouka Leele — Ouka Leele
Galerie VU, 58 rue Saint Lazare, Paris
Emblematic figure of the Movida, this wave of emancipation of the Spanish democratic revolution, Ouka Leele never ceases to reinvent, to re-enchant and has no equivalent by the originality of his abundant and poetic work where painting and photography meet in a strange mix.
Denis Darzacq
Centre d'art contemporain de la Matmut, Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville (FRANCE)
The exhibition at the Centre d'art contemporain de la Matmut presents a selection from the series : La Chute and Hyper which oppose two realities without digital manipulation, Act and Act II which invite reflection on the complexity of the individual, beyond the assigned and reductive status of a disabled person. Finally, Recomposition and Absences make the body disappear as the photographs are taken, giving way to the artist's reflection on abstraction.
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