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Stone, 1993-2017

Series | Stone is a recurrent factor in this region, both as an object to be thrown and to be used in the construction of houses or security barriers. To an important degree, stone defines the landscape and even the soil hydrology. It can serve as a weapon, or as an obstacle, but it also offers shelter.

The Fall

Serie | “I’m very far from Syria and I’m trying to understand that cruelly absurd war. … I watch from a distance, completely powerless, through the unreal, numbing filters of video, television, cameras with an imposed distance that never tells what there really is.”

Jean-Robert Dantou séries

Fighting Lands, 2017

Series | « Circle of silence », « Protest », « Night standing », « Festive snack », « Unlimited strike » … Everywhere in France, collective groups, associations, unions, citizens are gathering, protesting, taking a stand in the public space to tell their anger, their exasperation, their demands and display their fights.

José Manuel Navia séries

Salzillo, La vida en torno, 2017

Series | This project on Francisco Salzillo brings together images taken in 2016 and 2017 in Murcia, the city where he was born and lived.

Martin Bogren séries

Italia, 2017

Martin Bogren has travelled through Italian cities without any real goal. It was a question for him of getting lost, of drawing a path without any predefined intention.

François Fontaine séries

Witness, 2017

Series | It is a photographic essay on the representation of contemporary wars through the media in which I analyze the impact of news footage and the violence they convey...

Claudine Doury séries

1st Acte, 2017

Serie | This series presents a vision of these modern actors who take over the know-how and age-old traditions of the profession.

Anne Rearick séries

Sète #17, 2017

People, lights. One could say that Sète is all about that under the eye of Anne Rearick. Quite simply, with the immense freedom that is hers, with the flexibility that makes her elegantly wander the square of her frame until she reduces, without limiting it, the space of her experience to this magic square because it is inexplicable.

Rip Hopkins séries

Canada Canada, 2017

Pour le 150ème anniversaire du Canada, Rip Hopkins a réalisé 150 portraits de canadiens.

Stéphane Duroy séries

Unknown: The Endless Reworking of a book, 2017

Serie | Published in 2007, Unknow by Stéphane Duroy is comprised of photographs taken during years of travel to the United States, between New York and Montana.

Andrew Quilty séries

Aub Bala "High Water", 2017

Series | It was in 2009 that the inhabitants of Aub Bala, High Water, a small village in the Afghan province of Bamiyan, saw for the first time how to use skis...

Magali Lambert séries

Disappeared birds, 2017

Serie | The Museum of the Château de Dourdan gave me an assignment to interpret and highlight their collections: the ones exhibited in the rooms of the museum, and the ones of naturalized birds hidden for years in the reserves.

JR séries

Giants, 2016 - 2023

Giants est une série d’installations photographiques monumentales créées in situ sur des échafaudages, inaugurée lors des Jeux Olympiques à Rio en 2016.

Bertrand Desprez séries

The Mud Warrior of Mumbai, 2017

It is one of the oldest akharas (places where wrestling is practiced) in Mumbai, founded in 1930 at the time of Independence. Kushti is practiced in Southeast Asia and can still be observed in its traditional form in India, Pakistan or Dubai where some immigrant communities still practice it today.

Amélie Landry séries

The Wayward Paths, 2017

Cruising sites can be found everywhere but not just anywhere. Once located in the heart of urban centres, today they are nearly exclusively located on the city limits or outside of cities: disused industrials zones, scrublands, motorway rest areas, and coastal dunes...

Adrien Selbert séries

Belgrade, Année Zéro 17, 2017

The cold spell has just hit Western Europe and has already been raging for several weeks in the East. It particularly threatens migrants trying to reach the Schengen area...

Frédéric Lecloux séries

Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017

It's been 20 years now. Why do you keep coming back to it? It's not an easy question.

François Fontaine séries

American Dreams, 2016

American Dreams plunges the viewer in the history of America over the 60's. It is an immersion in the American Dream: with its glamorous icons, its Californian surfers, the conquest of space and its hippie aspirations.

Samuel Bollendorff séries

The dead of the street, 2016

Serie | Officially, more than 500 persons died in the street in 2016. They will be approximatively 3 000 according to the association “ Les Morts de la rue“. In the street, life expectancy is around 49 years old, thirty years earlier than the french average.

Guillaume Herbaut séries

Geeks2, 2016

Series | Commissioned by Cnap and the association CéTaVoir, a creation of images with the young people of the city of Tergnier, members of the association Geeks2, to go even further into their imaginary world.

Hiên Lâm Duc séries

Yusra, Free Swimmer, 2016

Yusra fled the war in Syria with her little sister. She didn’t hesitate to dive into water to rescue lives during the perilous crossing between Turkish and Greece. She captured the attention of the whole world during the 100 meters freestyle swim, in which she competed in Rio as a member of the Olympic refugee athletes.

Pierre-Elie de Pibrac séries

Yo Soy Fidel : Caravane mortuaire de Fidel Castro, 2016

Series | From Havana to Santiago, Fidel's funeral urn took the famous road of the 1959 Freedom Caravan for a last stand of honor.

Denis Dailleux séries

Ordinary Journey, 2016

Denis Dailleux, who has made Egypt his favourite topic since more than 15 years, immersed himself in Cairo popular districts to make the portrait of tuk-tuk drivers.

Emmanuel Pierrot séries

Bright Red, 2016

Series | My grandfather, the late Jean Pierrot, was a butcher in the small town of Fraize in the Vosges department in northeastern France.

Brigitte Grignet séries

Welcome, 2016

Series | Among those who go into exile, some are more vulnerable than others. In 2015 one in four asylum seekers in Europe was a child, some unaccompanied by parents, sent by them into exile because they saw no future for them at home.

François Fontaine séries

Cosmos, 2016

Series | « We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? » Novalis Novalis

Samuel Bollendorff séries

Night Falls on Europe, 2016

Serie | In January 2016, in northern Greece, the borders closed, leaving 46,000 children, women and men, traumatized by war and exile, blockaded in Idomeni, in the middle of winter.

Rip Hopkins séries

Belgian Blue Blood, 2016

The portrait of the aristocrat is an art that is practiced less and less. In literature, in cinema, in the visual arts, apart from a few rare specimens, one cannot say that the subject is of interest.

Vincent Catala séries

The news « City of God », 2016

Serie | Immersion on the outskirts of Rio, in the Colônia Juliano Moreira, one of the many social neighborhoods built from 2009 to rehouse the inhabitants of the favelas.

Vincent Catala séries

NNIPAS, 2016

Serie | The NNIPAS project (acronym of “Nous N'Irions Pas Si” “We would not go if”) is written by several hands (photographer, illustrator, writer - the images presented here are all by Vincent Catala).

Guillaume Zuili séries

Harbor City, Los Angeles, 2016

Guillaume Zuili continues his work in the footsteps of the American myth he has tirelessly immortalized for over fifteen years in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles: Harbor City, Wilmington or San Pedro.

Paolo Verzone séries

Paris Fashion Week, 2016

Série | Paolo Verzone was on site for Liberation, to share the backstages and podiums of this event.

Brigitte Grignet séries

Poland, 2016

Series | In 2016, I set off to explore Poland, after a conversation I had with a Polish friend, who was wondering about the future of her country.

Brooke DiDonato séries

Roses, 2016

Series | In "Roses", Brooke DiDonato uses wax and skin as her main elements.

Andrew Quilty séries

On the edge of Afghanistan, 2016

Series | In Nimruz, a South-West province of Afghanistan, more than 200 000 Afghans have crossed the Iranian border in 18 months in spite of...

François Fontaine séries

California Dream, 2016

Serie | California Dream is an invitation to travel in the mythical world of the Californian surfers from the 60's.

Jean-François Campos séries

Monsieur Dior

Pieter ten Hoopen séries

The Migrant Caravan, 2018

Series | The Migrant Caravan documents one of the largest caravans of migrants in recent history, with as many as 7,000 travelers, including at least 2,300 children, according to UN agencies.

Massimo Siragusa séries

Il Cretto Grande, 2018

Serie | The sense of suspended times and perfection that radiates from his earlier works places Siragusa's research on Burri's Cretto in a kind of continuity. But new elements are blatantly emerging.

José Manuel Navia séries

The Moorish mark in Tunisia, 2018

Series | In Tunisia on the tracks of the rich and fertile legacy of the Moors expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 17th century.

Andrew Quilty séries

When War Comes Home, 2018

Series | On April 28, the Ibrahim Khil family did not sleep a wink all night because of the sound of bullets and rockets slamming and exploding in front of their house...

Jean-François Campos séries

Daydream

Guia Besana séries

A rummage of flowers, 2018

Serie | Bringing together flowers and women, Guia Besana brought her feelings to life in a project titled A Rummage of Flowers.

Jean-François Campos séries

The Beauty Academy

Darcy Padilla séries

Wildfire in California, 2017-2018

Brooke DiDonato séries

A House Is Not a Home, 2018

Series | "A House is Not a Home" is a series of self-portraits which question notions of femininity as well as the antiquated concept of "female hysteria"

Paolo Verzone séries

Bible Hunters, 2018

Series | In 2018, Paolo Verzone, on assignment fo National Geographic, sets out to follow in the footsteps of the Bible hunters.

Andrew Quilty séries

Wakhan Corridor, 2018

Series | To view it on a map, the Wakhan seems a peculiar stretch of territory. It protrudes long and thin from the far north-east of Afghanistan all the way to China...

Christophe Goussard séries

Entre Fleuve et Rivière, 2018

Motivated by a deep attention for the sensitive history of landscapes as well as for the human, social or mythological stories that nourish them, photographers Christophe Goussard and Charles-Frédérick Ouellet have chosen to carry out their investigations around the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec and the Adour River in the Basque Country.

Samuel Bollendorff séries

Contaminations, 2018

Série | « Contaminations » proposes a reflection on irremediable industrials pollutions, transforming for decades, even centuries, territories into areas unsuitable for the development of life.

Samuel Bollendorff séries

Tara, Mermaid's tears, 2018

Serie | On the scientific schooner Tara, researchers spent three weeks taking samples from the “plastic continent“ between Honolulu (Hawaii) and California.

Jean-François Campos séries

Post Moderno

Cyril Zannettacci séries

Paris Fashion Week, 2018

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Adrien Selbert séries

Paris Gaypride, 2018

This work is an assigment for the French newspaper Libération. The photographer Adrien Selbert had photographed the 2018 Paris Gaypride.

Louise Desnos séries

China, 2018

Series | Shot during travels between the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, this series addresses the place of individuals, heritage and memory in a China in full mutation. A set of images that look, with a poetic and documentary look, at the transition period that the country is going through, torn between tradition and hyper modernization.

Denis Dailleux séries

Persan-Beaumont, 2018

An immersion in a council estate in the late 1980s

Guillaume Zuili séries

Urban Jungle, 2018

I've been living in Los Angeles since 2002. A megapole I photograph every day and which never ceases to amaze me. It is not a single entity but several cities stuck together, as it expands horizontally.

Jean-François Campos séries

The Rising Stars

Ismail Ferdous séries

Building a New American Dream, 2018

Series | Ismail Ferdous spent over 6 months traveling all around the United States to explore the nuances, complexities, breath, and everything in between of South Asians in this American land.

Guillaume Herbaut séries

Weapons Shows (Work in progress)

Series | Just as lingerie or cars, tanks and missiles have their own shows. From Paris to Delhi, these events, known war shows, are little known to the general public but draw in great numbers of professionals from the defence industry.

Samuel Bollendorff séries

The black Hole, Dzerjinsk – Russia, 2018

Serie | Located 400 kilometers on the east of Moscow near Nihni Novgood, Dzerjinsk was for a long time considered as the soviet capital of chemistry.

Samuel Bollendorff séries

Toxic town, Anniston – United States, 2018

Serie | The small city of Anniston, in Alabama, little more than 20 000 inhabitants, is one of the most polluted places in the earth.

Claudine Doury séries

Soviet Sanatoriums, 2018

Serie | Oil baths, Radon mineral water massage, thalassotherapy at the edge of the Black Sea are the cure centers’ specialties – also called sanatoriums – in Naftalan, Kolkhida and Tskaltubo, respectively based in Azebadjian and in Georgia.

Home-Réalisations Hiên Lâm Duc séries

The war in Ukraine, 2022

Série| In western Ukraine, the city of Lviv has been relatively spared by fighting since the start of the Russian invasion. It welcomes the massive flow of displaced Ukrainians who arrive at the train station with the hope of reaching the Polish border and finding refuge there.

Home-Réalisations Gert Jochems séries

War in Ukraine, 2022

Series | In the hall of a building, self-defence training is being organised, and the training of civilians in the use of weapons is intensifying.

Christophe Goussard séries

RN89 East-West, 2022

Series | The series "RN89 East-West" gathers a selection of photos taken by Christophe Goussard during his residency in the Massif Central in 2021-2022, like a travel diary of his journey on the mythical road.

Home-Réalisations Agence VU’ séries

Portraits and Testimonies of Ukrainian Refugees, 2022

Series | Portraits and testimonies of five Ukrainian refugees in Poland by the photographer Piotr Wojcik.

Agence VU’ séries

At the Polish-Ukrainian Border, 2022

Series | As Russia intensifies its attacks on Ukraine, half a million people have already fled their country in five days only, according to the ONU : the number of refugees continues to grow. At the end of February Polish photographer Piotr Wojcik went to Medyka, the largest border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, to document the arrival of exiles

Guillaume Herbaut séries