The partners
of the festival
institutional partners
Ministry of Culture, Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs of Normandy
A decentralised department of the Ministry of Culture and Communication under the authority of the prefect, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs implements the government's cultural policy at regional level. Drawing on the expertise of its various departments, it supports artistic creation and its dissemination to all audiences.
It also oversees the cultural dimension of regional planning and the preservation of movable, immovable and archaeological heritage. Finally, it reviews grant applications submitted by various cultural organisations and monitors and supervises them. It is supporting Planches Contact for the seventh year running.
NORMANDY REGION
Keen to promote photography in its region, the Normandy Region has been supporting the Planches Contact festival in Deauville since 2013. The festival has become Normandy's leading photography festival and is mainly attended by a Normandy audience.
CALVADOS DEPARTMENT
The Calvados Department joined the institutional partners of the Planches Contact festival in 2015. It is once again supporting photographic creation and contributing to the reputation of a department that has always welcomed and inspired photographers.
les partenaires officiels
POMMERY
LONGINES, OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE PHOTO COMPETITIONLA 25e HEURE LONGINES
The Swiss watch brand Longines is proud to present, for the eighth consecutive year, the photography competition organised by La 25e heure Longines in Deauville. This event, which takes place every year to mark the change to winter time, invites participants to take a photograph of the town between midnight and 1 am to capture this unique 25th hour of the day.
THE LONGINES MASTER COLLECTION CHRONO MOONPHASE
The photo contest La 25e heure Longines is the ideal event to showcase one of the most sophisticated expressions of Longines’ watchmaking expertise: the Master Collection Chrono Moonphase. Combining technical mastery with timeless elegance, this remarkable timepiece embodies the precision and pursuit of excellence that characterise both top-level equestrian sport and fine watchmaking.
The Master Collection Chrono Moonphase embodies the values at the heart of this prestigious competition, whilst illustrating the brand’s enduring commitment to watchmaking excellence.
Since its launch over twenty years ago, the Longines Master Collection has represented the pinnacle of the brand’s watchmaking expertise, where mechanical mastery is combined with timeless style. The Master Collection Chrono Moonphase continues this tradition through a refined combination of complications, including chronograph functions as well as day, date, month and moon phase displays, all presented in a harmonious and perfectly legible layout on the dial.
Housed in a 41 mm stainless steel case, this watch is powered by the exclusive Longines L687.5 automatic calibre, featuring a column-wheel chronograph mechanism, a silicon balance spring and a power reserve of up to 66 hours. Its silver dial is distinguished by an elegant barley grain pattern that lends it depth and visual texture, whilst the blue applied Arabic numerals and blued steel hands emphasise its sophisticated character.
Drawing inspiration from a long tradition of Longines chronographs with date displays dating back to the early 20th century, the Longines Master Collection Chrono Moonphase combines an exceptional watchmaking heritage with contemporary innovation, thereby reaffirming its status as a true icon of elegance.
PHOTO4FOOD, ART IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS
The mission of the photo4food foundation is to fund meals for the most disadvantaged through the sale of art photographs donated by generous artists. To thank and encourage them, the foundation also promotes their work to a large community of enthusiasts and buyers. photo4food organises exhibitions of the main works and charity dinners.
Created by Olivier and Virginie Goy and hosted by the Institut de France, the photo4food foundation's mission is to fund meals for the most disadvantaged through the sale of photographs donated by artists and donations from the public. To thank and encourage the artists involved, the foundation promotes their work to a large community of enthusiasts and buyers by organising exhibitions.
For the past five years, the partnership between the festival and the foundation has made it possible to invite photographers in residence each year and to raise funds through the sale of photographs for the benefit of the local Red Cross.
This year, four photographers from the foundation travelled across Normandy, listening to the landscape and redrawing it in the style of a diary, painting and visual art.
Foundation grant jury photo4food :
Arnaud Adida, Akrame Benallal, Simon Brodbeck, Lucie de Barbuat, Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, Isabelle Juy, et Jonas Tebib.
Veolia
Veolia, à travers sa filiale SETDN, s’engage auprès de l’EPIC Les Franciscaines en soutenant financièrement le Festival Planches Contact. Ce partenariat s’inscrit dans la volonté de l’entreprise de contribuer à la mise en valeur du patrimoine artistique et à la diffusion de la culture contemporaine. En tant qu’acteur responsable des services de l’eau et de l’environnement, Veolia reconnaît l’importance de soutenir les initiatives culturelles et événementielles qui enrichissent les territoires et offrent une large palette de pratiques culturelles au public. Le Festival Planches Contact, festival de création photographique, représente une opportunité pour Veolia de démontrer son engagement envers l’art, la création et l’accès à la culture pour tous.
Swiss life fondation
Swiss Life is a leading player in insurance and wealth management, with a recognised position as a private wealth insurer. We take a holistic approach to life insurance, private banking and financial management, as well as to health, pensions and general insurance. Through tailored advice and high-quality solutions, we enable each of our clients – both individuals and businesses – to build their financial independence and take full control of their lives at every stage.
As a responsible company, we are committed to a sustainable development approach, the aim of which is to enable current and future generations to live according to their own choices.
Swiss Life Four-Handed Prize
Established in 2014 by the Swiss Life Foundation, the Swiss Life Prix à 4 mains is the only arts prize in France to bring together two disciplines: photography and music. Its aim is to offer artists the freedom to create an original collaborative work by blending their respective artistic worlds. Since its launch, the Prize has unveiled unique and poetic projects that have left their mark on the contemporary art scene. Each edition provides an opportunity to support creativity, to encourage the convergence of these two major art forms – photography and music – and to showcase these works to the wider public through exhibitions and concerts at various cultural venues across the country.
The Jury for the 7th edition
For photography:
Lionel Charrier, co-artistic director of the Planches Contact Festival in Deauville,
Fabienne Fulcheri, director of the Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux,
Michael Houlette, Director of the Lavoir Numérique in Gentilly,
Catherine Mueller, Director of La Chambre in Strasbourg.
For the music:
Alice Boinet, artistic director of the Art Rock Festival,
Joseph Ghosn, deputy editor of Madame Figaro,
Mathias Delplanque, composer, winner of the music category at the 6th Swiss Life Four-Handed Piano Competition.
For Swiss Life :
Tanguy Polet, CEO of Swiss Life France and chairman of the judging panel,
Hervé Mercier Ythier, Chairman of the Executive Board of Swiss Life Private Bank,
Claire Roulhac de Rochebrune, Regional Director, Swiss Life Northern Region.
THE SANEF GROUP, PARTNER OF CULTURE IN THE REGION
Le groupe Sanef, gestionnaire de près de 2000 km d’autoroutes en Normandie, en Ile- de- France, dans le Nord et dans l’Est de la France, s’engage à renforcer l’attractivité culturelle et touristique des territoires qu’il traverse grâce à une politique active de mécénat, contribuant ainsi à faire rayonner des événements culturels et à attirer de nouveaux publics dans ces régions.
À seulement quelques heures de Paris, la Normandie s’impose comme une destination idéale pour une escapade culturelle et touristique. Depuis plus d’un an, la mise en place du péage en flux libre sur les autoroutes A13 et A14 a profondément transformé le trajet : les barrières de péage ont disparu, laissant place à une circulation plus fluide et plus agréable.
Cette évolution facilite l’accès à la Normandie et notamment à Deauville. Elle invite à l’évasion le temps d’une journée ou d’un week-end. Entre patrimoine, nature et événements culturels d’envergure, cette région n’a jamais été aussi proche !
Fidèle soutien des Franciscaines-Deauville depuis son ouverture en 2021, Sanef contribuera pleinement à la promotion de la 17ème édition de Planches Contact Festival, Deauville Photographie, du 17 octobre 2026 au 3 janvier 2027.
LA SAIF
SAIF – Société des Auteurs des arts visuels et de l’Image Fixe (Society of Visual Artists and Still Image Creators) – is a civil society organisation whose mission is to defend, collect and distribute royalties for visual artists. Created in 1999 by authors wishing to collectively defend their rights, SAIF now represents more than 8,500 authors from all visual arts fields: architects, designers, draughtsmen, graphic designers, illustrators, painters, visual artists, sculptors, photographers, etc.
The prevailing principles are equality, solidarity and fairness among member authors. Since its creation, SAIF has worked to protect and defend copyright and maintains an ongoing dialogue with broadcasters and national and international institutions to make the voices of authors heard. It collects collective rights on behalf of its authors (private copying, reprography rights, library lending rights and cable television rights) and also manages other copyrights (audiovisual rights, Internet rights, resale rights, reproduction rights and public performance rights).
Through its cultural activities, SAIF also plays an important role in France's artistic and cultural vitality. It supports initiatives to assist in the creation and dissemination of works, training for artists, and the development of artistic and cultural education.
Since 2015, it has provided its members with SAIF images, an online image bank enabling them to promote their works and distribute them in compliance with copyright laws.
les partenaires de compétence
Magnum Photos
INITIAL LABO
Initial LABO is a networking platform dedicated to photography, which develops projects both in-house and externally with leading institutions and photography events, such as Planches Contact Festival, Rencontres d'Arles, Visa pour l'Image, as well as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Fondation des Treilles, etc.
From fine art printing to large-format exhibitions, Initial LABO puts its artistic, creative, technical and industrial capabilities at the service of photographers.
Located in the heart of Boulogne Billancourt in western Paris, Initial LABO brings together a gallery, a bookshop and a shop dedicated to photography, which interact directly with the laboratory's activities. Professional and amateur photographers come to work with our printers every day.
As the official laboratory of Planches Contact, Initial LABO brings all its expertise to bear in producing the festival's exhibitions.
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The National Centre for Visual Arts has been supporting contemporary art since 1791
LEICA
Leica is an iconic German brand and manufacturer that has been designing and producing high-end analogue and digital cameras for over a century. Leica's legendary status is based on a long tradition of excellence in precision mechanics and optics, acquired since 1849. Inventor of the 35 mm (34×36) format in 1914, Leica shines thanks to an unwavering community of big names in photography, enthusiasts and aesthetes loyal to the LEICA brand.
Commitment to PHOTOGRAPHY: Leica has always highlighted the diversity of perspectives and creativity of contemporary artists. Through its Leica Oskar Barnack Award, created in 1979, a network of 22 galleries around the world, and a new Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar, Germany, dedicated to the great masters of photography, Leica continues its commitment to photography.
Villa pérochon
A new partner of the festival, Villa Pérochon, Niort's contemporary photography centre, will host the winner of the Young Photographic Creation Award, announced during the festival's opening weekend, for a residency in 2026.
The purpose of Villa Pérochon is to promote and disseminate contemporary photography through the organisation of individual and/or group exhibitions, a festival (Les Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale), hosting photographers in residence, and setting up mediation and image education programmes for all audiences.
The Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale residency takes place in Niort. Every year for a fortnight, the creative residency welcomes six emerging international photographers with a wide variety of artistic approaches, selected through an international call for applications. It offers them complete freedom, stimulated by encounters, exchanges and the sharing of experiences through the very different backgrounds of each participant.
INCADAQUÉS PHOTO FESTIVAL
The InCadaques festival supports the Young Photographic Creation Award by inviting one of the four winning photographers to come and work in residence in Spain, with the resulting work to be exhibited at the festival in 2026.
InCadaqués: A photography festival in the heart of the village of Cadaqués
Every year for ten days, Cadaqués becomes a space for photographers from around the world to express themselves: 25 exhibitions spread throughout the village, workshops, masterclasses and outdoor events. All of the town's iconic locations provide a natural backdrop for an in situ scenography. Art galleries and cultural centres, temporary and historic spaces all come together to host the event. Both educational and artistic, InCadaqués invites visitors to enjoy a unique photographic experience. A festive gathering, where proximity to the guest artists is central to the concept.
The InCadaqués Festival supports local and international photographic creation, as well as the dissemination of culture and artistic education. The event also perpetuates the spirit of the town of Cadaqués, which has always been a source of inspiration for great artists such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Pablo Picasso, Miró and Salvador Dalí.
Our mission is to promote quality and innovation through exhibitions in iconic locations in Cadaqués. Every year, we explore new ways of exhibiting the works of guest artists, surprising visitors with unusual events, always with a touch of surrealism.
pata france comitee
The association promotes tourism to, from and within the Asia-Pacific region. It is partnering with the La 25th heure Longines photo competition to offer prizes to the competition winner.
PATA is offering the second prize in the competition: a flight from Paris to New York for two people.
THE MANORS OF TOURGÉVILLE
This legendary hotel, built in the 1970s by Claude Lelouch, has been completely redesigned and redecorated since its acquisition by the Floirat Group. Les Manoirs de Tourgéville is the new charming and luxurious destination on the Normandy coast.
Whether in the English Channel, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean, all Floirat Group establishments offer the same values of quality, warmth and hospitality thanks to their prime locations and naturally generous staff.
The hotel, located in a peaceful and charming 7-hectare park, consists of a main half-timbered building and five round Norman manor houses, the first of which is home to the panoramic restaurant ‘1899’. It is at the Manoirs de Tourgéville restaurant that the members of the Planches Contact Festival jury hold their discussions to select the winners of the Young Photographic Creation Award.
réseau l u x
Aware of social, ethical and environmental issues, the LUX Network and its members pool their practices to better meet the expectations of audiences and artists. The LUX Network promotes cooperation and solidarity, supporting the professionalisation of its members and strengthening their cultural and economic impact.
Joining the network also implies a commitment to respect copyright and exhibition rights.
In 2025, the LUX Network has 31 members:
a ppr oc he & unRepresented • Arles, les Rencontres de la photographie • Biennale de l’Image Tangible • Boutographies • BPM – Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse • Biennale Internationale des Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane • Circulation(s) • Émoi Photographique • Festival Du Regard • GLAZ Festival • Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs • La Gacilly • Dysturb – La nuit du photojournalisme • Les Photographiques • Les Villes Invisibles / NegPos • LES NUITS PHOTO • L’été Photographique de Lectoure • L’Événement Photographique – Nouvel Observatoire Photographique du Grand Est • LUM Festival • Mesnographies • Nicéphore+ • Paris Photo • Photoclimat • Photo Days • PhotoSaintGermain • Planches Contact Festival • Polycopies • Portrait(s), Rendez-vous photographique • Présence(s) Photographie • QPN – Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise • Rencontres « Image et Environnement »
