Ten years after its launch by the Ministry of Culture and the National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP), the public photography commission *Jeunes Générations* takes on particular significance in the context of this year’s festival theme. Launched in 2016 and entrusted to fifteen documentary photographers, this ambitious national commission offered a sensitive portrait of young people in France, reflecting the diversity of regions, backgrounds and lifestyles.

Presented in Deauville on the Touques Peninsula, this anniversary exhibition brings together the perspectives of artists who have captured a generation in flux, caught between a desire for emancipation, a sense of belonging, cultural practices and new forms of social interaction. From the countryside to the big cities, from private spaces to communal places, the images form a living record of a youth grappling with the social changes of its time.

Ten years on, these photographs also stand as a valuable archive: they bear witness to a turning point and serve as a reminder that photography not only documents the present but also shapes the memories of future generations.

An exhibition organised as part of the bicentenary celebrations of photography, courtesy of the LUX Network.