Series
The April Theses, 2017
On the 7th of April 1917th, the Pravda publishes « The April Theses » by Lenin, who after 10 years exiled, undertakes his return to his homeland. With the German authorities’ help, who were at war against Russia, the revolutionary Bolshevik’s Party leader crossed by train Germany, Sweden and Finland to Saint-Petersburg.
La pesanteur du lieu, 2017
Israel Ariño spent two months at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany during an artist's residency. In the region, it is said that an old house, lost in the domain, only appears at nightfall.
Brazil - Amazonia, 2015-2017
Series | After exploring Sao Paulo in a first series, Ludovic Carème leaves the city for the deepest part of the Amazonia from the end of 2015 until the end of 2017.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Canada Canada, 2017
Pour le 150ème anniversaire du Canada, Rip Hopkins a réalisé 150 portraits de canadiens.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017
It's been 20 years now. Why do you keep coming back to it? It's not an easy question.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cosmos, 2016
Series |
« We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? »
Novalis
Novalis
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Paris Fashion Week, 2016
Série | Paolo Verzone was on site for Liberation, to share the backstages and podiums of this event.
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.
The Sinai-Russian border, an Atypical Relationship, 2018
China and Russia, respectively the world's most populous country and the world's largest country, both permanent members of the UN Security Council, share a common 4 3000-kilometer border.
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"
Bible Hunters, 2018
Series | In 2018, Paolo Verzone, on assignment fo National Geographic, sets out to follow in the footsteps of the Bible hunters.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Paris Gaypride, 2018
This work is an assigment for the French newspaper Libération. The photographer Adrien Selbert had photographed the 2018 Paris Gaypride.
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.
Persan-Beaumont, 2018
An immersion in a council estate in the late 1980s
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Emotion of Vertigo, 2018
Serie | From the cliffs of the beautiful island of Capri to the steep peaks of the Cortina d'Ampezzo, it is amazing to see the similar sensations that can evoke landscapes that seem to have no common features.
Don’t go to Glasgow ! 2018
Serie| Back after 41 years in Glasgow, Bertrand Carrière explores identity, youth and the ties that bind us to the places we cross.
White Islands of the South Sea, 2018
In the 19th century, miners used small canaries to ensure their safety. Sensitive to toxic gas fumes undetectable to humans, the bird served as a reference probe: when it fainted or died, the miners evacuated the mine, aware that an explosion was imminent.
Inhotim, The main Contemporary of Art foundation in Latin America, 2018
Serie | Inhotim Museum, located in the heart of the state of Minas Gerais, is the main Contemporary of art Foundation in Latin America.
Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro 2021
series| Away from the noise and violence of the Brazilian megalopolis, Rio de Janeiro's botanical garden is home to 22,000 plants and trees from all over the world, as well as numerous animal species.
Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban, 2021
series| On 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul. The Afghan capital has returned to the hands of the insurgent group after 20 years of American presence, after a rapid advance that nothing and no one was able to stop.
À côté, 2018-2021
Series | À côté is a photographic approach to the body in the "Almost there". The body, omnipresent in my work, tends here to reflect on presence through its absence.
CHAPSA, 2021
Série | The hospital of the street. It is in the heart of a care unit for the homeless that the photographer Cyril Zannettacci witnesses in 2021, the outbreak of the Covid19 epidemic. Located in Nanterre, at the gates of Paris, the Centre d'Hébergement et d'Assistance aux Personnes Sans-Abri (CHAPSA), a unique place in France, welcomes and accompanies homeless people in a care process.
Portrait of Camargue, 2021
Series| From Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to Arles, through the Camargue Regional Natural Park, from the Aigues Mortes salt flats to the rice farms, photographer Paolo Verzone spent a year in the Camargue, an astonishing region where water and land are one.
Cycles américains, 2021
Series | Darcy Padilla has documented the world's largest launderette in a working-class suburb of Chicago.
The Samaritaine, 2021
Series | Since 2013, the photographer Pierre-Olivier Deschamps has been following the progress of the titanic restoration project of The Samaritaine, in the heart of Paris.
Within, 2021
Series | In the spring of 2021, during an artistic residency, Louise Desnos went to the Levant island. She took a photographic series where nature and naturists appear in symbiosis.
New Waves, 2021
Series | Heat waves, floods, tornadoes, advancing of deserts… The disasters that populate our imagination and make us shiver with pleasure in science fiction scenarios are increasingly intruding into our reality.
Hollywood in Spain, 2021
Series| Once upon a time, the largest movie open-air set in Europe.