en résidence hors les murs
2025
Privacy – body and territory
Since 2019, Planches Contact Festival has been constantly expanding the artistic expression of photographers. Initially focused on the city of Deauville, their productions have gradually spread throughout the Normandy region. This year, for the first time, they are crossing this border.
As part of the festival, photographer Myriam Boulos is leading a creative residency based on this year's theme: intimacy. Produced outside the walls of the festival, from Beirut, this work is a continuation of her committed work on Lebanese youth, which she has been documenting for several years through a sensitive exploration of intimate life in a territory marked by omnipresent war.
The exhibition will unveil these previously unseen images, accompanied by a selection of photographs from her monographic book What's Ours, which resonate with the theme of intimacy.
Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos was born in Beirut in 1992, where she lives and works. At the age of 16, she began using her camera as a means of connecting with reality. She has participated in international group exhibitions at ICP (New York), Huis Marseille (Amsterdam), and Cortona on the Move (Cortona). Through her work, she explores femininity and rebellion, challenging social and political norms and seeking to reinvent herself in a patriarchal and capitalist society. Winner of several awards, including the ISEM Grand Prize and the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, she joined the Magnum agency in 2021.
