4 photographers have chosen to combine their work after not having found a common theme or look, but a distance and a common acuity with which each one understands the world. A thin veneer of reality is constructed concurrently with the emergence of a new French photography in recent years. The willingness of these 4 photographers to present their work together resulted in a cross-interrogation of young writers on a whole field of contemporary photography. There is a profound silence in these photographs, which we eventually distinguish densities, intensities. It is perhaps then that we come into resonance with this silence.
Released
01/02/2005
Collection
Hors Collection
Format
120 x 165
Coffret
85 color photos
32 pages
ISBN : 978-2-914381-99-4
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Michel Poivert

Auteur, Critique d'art

Michel Poivert Born in 1965, Professor of Contemporary Art History / History of Photography in Paris 1 University in 1992 He spends his doctorate in history of art at the pictorialist photography, under the direction of José Vovelle . He participated at the same time rescuing SFP threatened with closure, he took the chair. He will head the exhibition “Utopia photographic” the MEP.

Céline Clanet

Photographe

Céline Clanet is the renowned photographer for the 2024 edition of our “Photography & Sciences” creative residency program in Toulouse.

Céline Clanet (born 1977), a graduate of the ENSP in Arles, focuses on remote or hidden places, wild landscapes, and their inhabitants. Since 2005, she has worked on European Arctic regions (“Máze,” Photolucida 2010, “Kola,” Loco 2018).

With a keen eye on the ecological impact of human actions and areas on the verge of transformation, she photographs places where friction occurs between the collapse of landmarks and the continuation of age-old values. She also explores the complex relationships we maintain with the animal world.

In 2023, her book Ground Noise (Actes Sud) was published, a work on the visible and invisible worlds of the forest, exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles the same year. As the recipient of the “Grande commande photographique” from the BnF, she created Les Ilots Farouches, focusing on the most protected natural spaces in France left to evolve freely.

Her work, published and exhibited in Europe and abroad, is part of the collections of the BnF, CNAP, Neuflize OBC Collection, Société Française de Photographie, the Departmental Archives of Savoie, the Portland Art Museum (USA), and has been the subject of seven monographs.

Geoffroy Mathieu

Photographe

Born in Boulogne Billancourt. Lives and works in Marseille. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie d’Arles in 1999. Divides his time between an artistic work that develops through books and exhibitions and a freelance photographer working: as portraitist to the national press (Le Monde, L’Express, L’Usine Nouvelle …), performing reporting agencies for business communication (The Agency, Word, Publicorp, Textuel …), leading observatories photographic landscape for Regional Natural Park (Ardèche, Narbonne), carrying out orders from publishers (more) …
Member of the Association The Panoramas which includes landscape photographers and a rural development specialist to undertake work such as observatories Landscape Photography and more generally a reflection on the landscape.