artist in residence
2026
Les Nouveaux Paysans
Between 2010 and 2020, nearly 100,000 farms disappeared in France, placing the issue of generational succession at the heart of the challenges facing the agricultural sector. In Normandy, a new generation is seeking to adapt the structures inherited from the past against a backdrop of major economic, social and climatic upheavals.
Bruce Gilden sets out to meet young people involved in the agricultural sector in Normandy. True to his instinctive approach, he photographs apprentices, students, farmers’ children and young farmers aged between 13 and 30 in the Deauville region. His images reveal a generation grappling with issues of succession, work, attachment to the land and the future, against a backdrop of the profession’s increasing fragility, whilst the European agricultural landscape attempts to reinvent itself.
An American photographer born in 1946 in Brooklyn (New York), Bruce Gilden lives and works in New York. Self-taught, he became a leading figure in street photography, developing a direct, frontal style from the late 1960s onwards, characterised by the use of flash and tight framing of passers-by’s faces. His dynamic and graphic style, initially in black and white and later in colour, has earned him international recognition and a strong visual identity within Magnum Photos, of which he is a member. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Japan Foundation. His works are held in numerous international collections, including the MoMA (New York), the V&A Museum (London) and the Getty Museum (Los Angeles).