Planches Contact Festival

edition #16
18th October 2025
4th January 2026

Planches Contact Festival, a unique festival of photographic creation in residence

the festival

Each year, Planches Contact Festival invites around twenty international photographers, both established and emerging, to work in residence in Deauville. These artists explore the whole of the Normandy region to produce original projects reflecting their singular vision of the area. The resulting exhibitions are on show in Deauville during the festival period from 18 October.
At Les Franciscaines, the Point de vue, the beach and various outdoor venues, the town is transformed into an open-air exhibition.

The festival also includes a prize for young photographers and a bursary supported by the photo4food foundation. Like the photographers chosen by the festival, the prize and the bursary will take the form of artistic residencies and exhibitions during the festival period.

New artistic direction

Planches Contact Festival marks a turning point with the arrival of Jonas Tebib and Lionel Charrier as artistic directors. They take over from Laura Serani, who shaped the festival’s identity with rigour and passion from 2019 to 2024.

This complementary tandem combines the expertise of an art market specialist and curator who was head of photography at Sotheby’s, and a leading figure in photojournalism, currently director of photography at Libération newspaper, who founded and directed the MYOP agency and the Tbilisi Photo Festival.

Renowned for its programme of artistic residencies in Deauville, the festival showcases original projects produced in Normandy by both emerging and established photographers. Under the impetus of its new artistic director, the festival is reinventing its exhibitions and expanding its programme of events in Deauville.

To accompany this new impetus, the festival is also sporting a brand new visual identity.

Planches Contact Festival is supported by the Photographic Department of Les Franciscaines.

Support for photographers from the inception of the project right through to the production of the exhibitions

the programme

THE PROGRAMME WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 13 JUNE 2025

2025 marks the beginning of a new cycle: each edition will be based around a strong theme, which will serve as a common thread.
The exhibition formats are also being revamped to make them more fluid and accessible, and the residencies are being reinvented with a new off-site residency.
young photography is given a new lease of life with a new jury president and new jury members. The festival is also offering an exhibition outside its walls in Paris during Paris Photo week in November.
The artists invited to the 2025 Planches Contact Festival and all this year’s new features will be unveiled on Friday 13 June in Deauville.
To be continued…

We believe in what young photography has to say, to show, to invent, and we give it the means to do so.

Young Photographic Creation Price

Since its creation in 2010, the festival has shown a strong commitment to young photographic talent. Each year, following a call for entries, several artists are selected by the festival jury to develop an original project based in Normandy. Supported in their work, they benefit from conditions conducive to research, creation and production. Their work is then presented as part of the festival and entered for the Jury Prize and Audience Prize, awarded in the autumn

The winners of the Young Photographic Creation 2025

The muscular body as an injunction to conform to the self-image. Long out of fashion, the weight room is now a place of convergence for an increasingly wide audience. A theatre of self-building, but also of social interaction, Jérémy will take a look at these halls where leisure activities, dreams, frustrations, pleasure and pain meet.

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www.jeremyappert.com I @jeremy_appert

Attracted by the world of amateur football, Simon decided to work on the cultural and social imprint of a region that saw the birth of the first French football club in Le Havre. From the football pitches of small towns to the stadium at La Meinau, his photographic work will focus on this popular and unifying local sport.

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www.simon-bouillere.com I @simon.bouillere

Motivated by the desire to discover, understand and share different perspectives on life. Naïma decided to travel around Normandy, following the course of the region’s emblematic waterway, which begins inland and ends on the coast between Trouville and Deauville: La Touques.

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www.naimalecomte.fr I @naimalecomte

The rural world and the in-between territories are at the heart of Anaïs’ work. Les filles du coin is a documentary project that will focus on young girls who are neither from the big cities, nor completely from the countryside. It’s a photographic investigation into the everyday lives of these teenage girls who are trying to build an identity for themselves in these in-between areas, and who are thinking about building their own future.

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www.anaisondet.com I @anais.ondet

The Jury of the Young Photographic Creation 2025

Rima Abdul Malak – Chairwoman of the jury

‘I’m delighted to be chairing the jury at the Planches Contact Festival, which will be awarding the prize for young photographers.
This award is much more than a prize: it’s a residency, long-term support and collective emulation. Above all, it’s a vote of confidence in the younger generation, an absolute faith in the fresh perspectives they can offer us.
These young talents are the greatest promise of all. The promise of a world that will preserve our sensitivity, the power of the unexpected, the singularity of each experience, the depth of our humanity.
Rima Abdul Malak

the members of the jury

Alongside Rima Abdul Malak, Philippe Augier, Babeth Djian, Édouard Carmignac, Lionel Charrier, Thierry Grillet, Alain Genestar, Marin Karmitz, Anne Lacoste, Nicolas Jimenez and Jonas Tebib, the festival jury welcomes three new members: Philippe Guionie, Director of the Villa Pérochon, Caroline Stein, Curator of the Neuflize Collection and Cécile Trunet-Favre, Director of Communications, Public Affairs and Cultural Action at Fnac-Darty.

the young photographic prize and its supporters

The Young Photographic Prize, which has been supported by Fnac for the last three years, is getting a new boost this year.

The winner of the Jury Prize will now benefit from a residency at the Villa Pérochon, Centre d’art Contemporain Photographique in Niort, while the InCadaqués festival is extending its commitment by presenting, in autumn 2025, an exhibition by Cloé Harent (winner of the 2024 Jury Prize) produced at the end of her residency in Spain.

applications

Applications for the Young Photographic Creation Prize 2026 will open on 24 October and close on 15 December 2025.

The prize is €6,000 for the production of the project and the exhibition, in addition to the residency.

From October to December, these exhibitions will be taking over Deauville, from the seafront to the sumptuous setting of the Franciscaines.

photo4food bursary

Since 2020, the partnership with the festival has enabled the programme to be enriched each year by welcoming new photographers in residence.
In addition, an auction of works donated by the Foundation’s photographers and other festival photographers is regularly held during the inaugural weekend, with proceeds going to a local charity.

The winners of the photo4food competition

A multidisciplinary artist, he explores memory through photography and video, in conjunction with history and literature. His work addresses themes such as the Holocaust and colonialism. He has received several awards for his books, films and exhibitions.

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www.danielblaufuks.com I @danielblaufuks

Influenced by surrealism and straight photography, his work is characterised by an ambivalence between intuition and reflection that questions the meaning of appearances and our perception of reality.

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www.adrienboyer.com I @adrienboyerphotographe

Combining photography and painting in a poetic and ecological approach to nature, his compositions of flowers, fruit and landscapes evoke tableaux vivants and celebrate the beauty of reality.

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www.ameliechassary.com I @ameliechassary

Exploring memory, time and intimacy through a poetic and sensitive approach, she blends photography, collage and manual manipulation to create fragmented narratives between family archives, landscapes and bodies. Her work questions the fragility of the world and the ephemeral beauty of existence.

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www.mariliadestot.com I @mariliadestot

Art at the service of others

The photo4food foundation, set up by Olivier and Virginie Goy and housed at the Institut de France, aims to fund meals for the most disadvantaged through the sale of photographs donated by artists and donations from the public. At the same time, the foundation promotes the work of these artists to a wide community of enthusiasts and buyers, notably through the organisation of exhibitions.

This partnership embodies the way in which photography can become a driving force for solidarity, by supporting both artistic creation and concrete actions to help the most vulnerable.

The Jury

The photo4food jury is made up of: Arnaud Adida, Akrame Benallal, Simon Brodbeck, Lucie de Barbuat, Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, Isabelle Juy, and Jonas Tebib.

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www.fondationphoto4food.com

15 years of festival, 170 artists exhibited. 78 days of exhibitions, over 600 works on show in 2024, and thousands of visitors every year.

Past, present, future

Deauville loves photographers

Since the festival was created in 2010, over 170 photographers have taken part in Deauville and the Normandy region in 15 years, including Peter Lindbergh, Martin Parr, George Rousse, Peter Knapp, Massimo Vitali, Paolo Woods, Paolo Roversi, Joakim Eskildsen, Harry Gruyaert…

#16 edition

Exhibitions
18 October 2025 – 4 January 2026

Opening days
24th > 26th October 2025

La 25e Heure Longines photo competition
25th October 2025