Festival events
in detail
major events
portfolios
23 and 25 October – 10.30 am–1 pm and 2.30 pm–5.30 pm
La Villa Namouna – 4 Rue Tristan Bernard, Deauville
portfolio reviews
Planches Contact Festival
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Portfolio reviews offer photographers, whether beginners or experienced, a unique opportunity to present their work to imaging experts. This essential opportunity for discussion is taking place for the first time at the festival’s main venue: La Villa Namouna, to nurture their practice and take their projects forward.
Portfolio reviews are open to all photographers seeking constructive feedback on their work.
During twenty-minute one-to-one meetings, they have the opportunity to meet professionals from the visual arts world: gallery owners, curators, critics, image editors, publishers and festival directors.
These exchanges provide an outside perspective, helping artists to refine their artistic approach, adjust their visual narrative or explore new avenues.
>>> Further details and registration from September
photo contest
Saturday 24 October – 10.30 pm
Le Cloître – 145b, av. de la république
la 25e heure longines
Les Franciscaines & Planches Contact Festival
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To welcome winter in a different way, the night-time competition La 25e heure Longines invites all photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, to take advantage of the extra hour gained by the switch to winter time to capture the moment and unleash their creativity.
Open to all, the La 25e heure Longines photo competition brings together photography enthusiasts, whether individuals, groups or families. Urban scenes, portraits, landscapes or tributes to famous beaches: all perspectives are welcome to capture Deauville by night, with sensitivity and freedom.
At midnight, the signal is given from the Franciscan courtyard. Participants then have one hour to take their photo and hand in their digital file to the teams.
200 lux
Upcoming dates
Les Franciscaines– 145b, av. de la république, Deauville
200 L U X
Planches Contact Festival
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As a member of the L U X Network, the Planches Contact Festival is part of 200LUX, a project conceived collectively by the festivals and fairs in the network, to mark the bicentenary of photography, which will be celebrated by the Ministry of Culture from 2026 to 2027.
A celebration that the L U X Network will be hosting through a range of initiatives across France, combining exhibitions, a tour of France and various events:
The Dictionnaire (presque) complet de la photographie
Each member of the LUX Network will illustrate a letter of the alphabet with a word, an idea or a concept related to photography, and will organise an exhibition or an event centred around that letter. The Planches Contact Festival will feature the letter A for ‘Agrandisseur’, echoing the history of the darkroom, printing techniques and the passing on of photographic practices.
This proposal will result in a performance by the shooter Diamantino centred on the experience of analogue printing during the festival’s opening weekend.
LUX Tour
A travelling exhibition featuring a film-processing mobile lab touring partner regions and festivals. As part of this, the Trygone association is hosting a workshop-performance during the opening weekend of the Planches Contact Festival The origins of the heart, enabling the creation of a photographic image based on the participants’ heartbeats.
LUX Exhibition
A major group exhibition bringing together members of the network at the MAC Créteil, from September to December.
>>> Details to follow
poda
All Saints’ Day holidays – 10.30am–5.30pm
Front de mer – Place Claude Lelouch, Deauville
poda, a little work of art
Planches Contact Festival
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Planches Contact Festival invites PODA, the Little Work of Art for a pop-up shop during the autumn half-term holidays and the festival’s opening weekend, at Place Claude Lelouch, just a stone’s throw from the beach.
PODA is a unique artistic initiative that is reinventing the way art photography is collected. The PODA collection offers original works in a novel 9×12 cm format, framed and available at an affordable price of €49. The collection currently comprises over 600 photographs from the work of 21 artists.
PODA will also be showcasing a selection of ‘Petite Œuvre d’Art’ featuring photographers from the festival.
>>> Details to follow
dialogue
Novembre et décembre – 10h30-17h30
Studio Franck Horvat – 5 Rue de l’ancienne mairie, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Frank Horvat Dialogue Sylvie Bonnot
Planches Contact Festival
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For this new edition of Dialogue, Fiammetta Horvat welcomes photographer Sylvie Bonnot, an artist participating in the Planches Contact Festival in collaboration with the foundation photo4food.
Conceived as an encounter between two photographic approaches that focus on materiality, memory and traces, this exhibition brings together the work of Frank Horvat and the visual research developed by Sylvie Bonnot around landscapes, bodies and the connections between living things.
Through this dialogue, Frank Horvat’s archives and images become a space for contemporary resonances. Sylvie Bonnot’s material experiments – in which the photograph peels away, fragments and transforms – extend a reflection on time, intimacy and the invisible bonds that span generations.
Exhibition from November to December 2026
The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of a book by Process.
>>> Details to follow