a photographic journey in the Phocaean city
On October 14, Marseille inaugurated the 11th edition of its photo festival. Photo Marseille will be held until December 19. This new program met in the spotlight more than 100 photographers in 21 locations in Marseille, the opportunity to take a photo route with multiple influences.
Éric Bourret guest of honor
Festival honorary invitation, the photographer Eric Bourret presents from October 29 to February 27 Flux, his sensitive body of work at the Center de la Vieille Charité. For about thirty years the photographer, who describes himself as a “walking artist” capture natural landscapes.
Éric Bourret travels the world on foot to better convey in images the sensory and physical transformation caused by walking in him. To achieve this, the photographer creates a desired portfolio such as a walking notebook. Éric Bourret superimposes several shots of the same landscape on the same negative for a delicate, moving representation of the geological landscape. From the peaks of the Himalayas to the Mediterranean rim, Éric Bourret offers us images like so many visual meditations, breaths: “I am made up of the landscapes that I cross and that crosses me. For me, the photographic image is a receptacle of forms, energy and meaning. “
From one solitude to another, the White House Prize
From October 21 to November 28, Photo Marseille presents the winners of its 11th White House Prize which rewards young photographic creation. The opportunity to discover Meet Sophie, fruit of the work of Snezhana Von Büdingen, winner of this 2021 edition. With tenderness and humanity, the Russian photographer depicts the daily life of Sofie, a young person with Down’s syndrome, for the better public awareness of down syndrome and to challenge the fight that these people still lead for their inclusion and acceptance.
It will then always be possible, until December 19, to rediscover Meet Sophie at the Timone Hospital, alongside Cosmic loneliness, a series signed by the awarded Armenian photographer Yulia Grigoryants. His series takes us to Mount Aragats, the highest point in Armenia and the home of an ancient soviet research station on cosmic rays. Hundreds of employees there are now only 3, wandering in a ghost place, now embodying for the photographer the loneliness of the Armenian people.
From one medium to another, cinema on the bill at Photo Marseille
From October 14 to 23, Stephane Zaubitzer, 2004 winner of the World Press Photo, offers to discover Cines-Mondes In the center Closed on Mondays. For nearly 20 years, the photographer has traveled the world to immortalize city-center cinemas. In activity or in disuse, these places dedicated to the image are seen in the large format room.
Gilles Favier receives at Zef through So far, so good. The series presented until June 30 is born on the set of Hate, film directed in 1994 by Mathieu kassovitz and carried by Vincent Cassel. In this off-screen dedicated to the city of Noah in Chanteloup-Les-Vignes, where the film was shot, the photographer moves away from the making-of to meet the neighborhood and its inhabitants, capturing their reaction to these lives replayed in front of the camera.
Over 100 documentary and artistic perspectives on contemporary photography
Marseille vibrates to the rhythm of the photo, to the Gare Saint-Charles and the Hôpital de la Conception, which will be the stage for the occasion where Yanni Datessen. The photographer offers Rimbaud, a series for which he walked during 4 years in the footsteps of the poet, from Charleville-Mézières to Marseille, to better transmit his work to new generations.
With Melanie, Vincent Gouriou continue son work on the body, identity and questioning normality by offering us to follow the footsteps of a young transgender Breton woman through her lens. From 2015 to 2017, the portrait painter accompanied him to sexual reassignment classes in the privacy of moments shared with family and with her boyfriend.
From December 9 to 30, the public will be able to discover Everything that moves us. The Marseille photographer Celine Ravier offers a selection of photographs taken around the world. All have in common to freeze the movement and the inexorable advance of peoples, ferries dependent from Marseille to Algiers at the beginnings of the Egyptian Arab Spring. For the photographer “this series of photographs taken between 2007 and 2020 testifies to those who, in the four corners of the world, move to (on) live, to experience, to love”.
With more than 100 photographic writings, 40 events dedicated to the image and about twenty places to discover in free access (unless otherwise indicated), the Photo Marseille festival promises to be a major photo festival of the season.
The festival programming and thedirectory of exhibition venues are available on the website of Photo Marseille. The festival is organized by the association Les Asso (s).