Thomas Dhellemmes

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Thomas Dhellemmes © Atelier Mai 98

Thomas Dhellemmes has been passionate about photography since childhood. After studying art, he went to live in the Cape Verde Islands, then back in Paris, he decided to devote himself fully to photography. He leads a life of photographic commissions (art of living, gastronomy, luxury...) with Atelier Mai 98 - the photographic creation studio he founded - and of personal artistic projects.

His artistic work begins with ektachromes with " Un regard sur le Cap-Vert " (1986- 88) and " Promenade Silencieuse " (1989), then continues in black and white with the film Ilford (" Marié(e)s ", 1990-98). Since 2000, he expresses himself mainly through his Polaroid SX-70.
His photographs speak of existence, the fragility of life and its ephemeral nature. He maintains a mysterious distance with his subject.

Photography has always been for me a strong act, which I carry out with modesty and rarity.

Thomas Dhellemmes

Path(s)

THE BEACH - In front of the point of view (Outdoor)

Since the 2000s, Thomas Dhellemmes has been expressing himself essentially with his Polaroid SX 70, whose timelessness, rarity and slowness of each image he loves. Its imprecision leaves all freedom of interpretation to the viewer. It's by getting lost alone on these paths that the horizon lines naturally came to rest on his Polaroids.

Take the time to travel through Normandy, on the path of customs officers or smugglers along the coastline. The sea as a horizon, all the dreams it provides. Venturing into an unknown path, watching, connecting to a form. Just feeling, touching, not getting too close. Going in search of a state of grace. Following in the footsteps of the many spirits of painters, writers and photographers who have influenced my life.

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Instagram : thomasdhellemes
Website of the foundation: https: //www.fondationphoto4food.com

Path(s)

Philippe Chancel

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Philippe Chancel © Victor Rival-Garcia

Born in 1959 in Issy les Moulineaux, Philippe Chancel lives in Paris. For more than twenty years, he has been pursuing a photographic experience in the complex, moving and fertile field between art, documentary and journalism. A constantly evolving work on the status of images when they confront themselves with what makes "images" in the contemporary world. Initiated to photography at a very young age, Philippe Chancel studied economics at the University of Nanterre and journalism at the CFPJ in Paris. Successive reports in the former Eastern European countries marked his debut in photojournalism.

DPRK, his vision of North Korea, was shown for the first time at the Rencontres d'Arles (2006) and was the subject of a book published by Thames&Hudson, earning him the start of international recognition. The Emirates project was first shown at the 53rd Venice Biennale (Abu Dhabi Pavilion) and then at the Dreamlands exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. His books include Dubai, published by Be-pôles, Desert Spirit, published by Xavier Barral, Emirates Workers, published by Bernard Chauveau, and Kim Happiness and Drive thru Flint, published by l'Artiere.

Philippe Chancel is currently working on a new documentary field entitled Data Zone, which seeks to show territories that are overexposed or, on the contrary, unknown to media radars. Finalist for the Prix Pictet 2012 for his work Fukushima : The Irresistible Power of Nature, he exhibits at the Rencontres d'Arles 2013, is nominated for the first Prix Elysée and winner of the endowment of the Festival Photoreporter in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. In 2017, for its second edition, he receives the Fidal Prize for documentary photography. In 2019, he presents Data Zone at the Rencontres d'Arles.

If Deauville

LUCIEN BARRIERE WALK - Along the International Congress Centre. Access via Boulevard Eugène Cornuché.

In the grip of a sort of "special edition" of his work Data Zone, immersed in a city/décor and the surrounding landscape, Philippe Chancel conducts an investigation beyond appearances.

Philippe Chancel, particularly noted for his work on North Korea and his great Data Zone exhibition presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2019, proposes a reflection on the question of sustainability; through the analysis of key places, the theatre of stakes, wars or natural disasters (the new silk road, Fukushima, Kabul, the Niger Delta...).
In residence, he worked on Deauville as a city/cinema set, "ideal city".

The Duke de Morny, nephew of Napoleon III, a colourful character and a shrewd businessman, celebrated the Empire in his own way by creating Deauville from scratch. The legend of the prodigious seaside resort was built around this founding myth which became reality and which gives the impression of an almost too perfect city, a cinema city, that we still know today. I arrived in Deauville with the intention of making an intramural photographic inventory of it as well as of the whole surrounding area. Blonville sur mer, Tourgéville, Saint Arnoult, Vauville, Villers-sur-mer, Touques, Villerville and others.

All along this Normandy coastline, events are incessant, the activities are numerous, and leisure activities have become a true art of living: hotels, beaches, casino, horse riding, well-being, architecture and heritage, water sports, tennis, golf and mini golf, etc. Through rigorous work on the frame, at the right distance from the subject so that the images are composed like living, contemporary tableaux, allowing for breaks in scale, with a bias of decisive choices, I tried to grasp in all hypotheses that, if Deauville was shown to me, I would like to see it like that and not otherwise.

Philippe Chancel

The Site:www.philippechancel.com

If Deauville

Letizia LE FUR

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Letizia Le Fur © Richard Pak

Letizia Le Fur graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1998 and was initially trained as a painter. Encouraged by the artist and teacher Valérie Belin, she quickly turned her aesthetic quest towards photography.

Her writing, through a very personal use of colours and a particular care for composition is always situated between reality and fiction. Fascinated by myths, she explores the double theme of nature and the human figure by creating atmospheric scenes and dreamlike visions. In 2018, she wins the Leica/Alpine Prize and in 2019 becomes a Leica ambassador. A monograph in the series L'origine, published by Rue du Bouquet, is due out in October 2020.

The origin

THE BEACH (Outdoor) - Opposite the viewpoint

I carried out my work of residence by criss-crossing the Normandy countryside, essentially the Cotentin and Lower Normandy. I was thus able to continue a personal series initiated in 2019 (The Origin) using the same process and double motif of landscape and the human figure, embodied by a naked man.

Nature, represented here, dominates, sometimes worried. I wanted it to be as wild as possible, fertile, even luxuriant. Far from the usual image of the sweetness of the Normandy bocage, she is both the theatre and the main character of this story. Out of the shelter, alone, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes strong, this man I imagined him as an Ulysses, like the first man or a demigod. The colours, sometimes unreal, are the manifestations of my vision of the world which often oscillates between reality and fiction.

My obvious fascination for Greek mythology has become an obsession in the course of this work. These fantastic and monstrous adventure tales, in addition to their narrative interest, represent a veritable gold mine in trying to answer the fundamental question of the meaning of life and propose an attempt to find a path to the good life, as understood by the ancient philosophers. Without political or ideological intent, however, this work is part of contemporary concerns. This naked man, who wanders from earth to earth in the midst of a singular and marvellous nature, symbolizing in a way the golden age described by Ovid, crystallizes in his own way our desires for freedom, our desires to extricate ourselves from society, our existential anxieties and certainly our ecological concerns.

Letizia le Fur


Networks

Website: www.letizialefur.com
Website of the foundation: www.fondationphoto4food.com

The origin

Anaïs Shearer

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Anaïs Shearer © Patricio Retamal

Anaïs Tondeur was born in 1985, lives and works in Paris. In an approach anchored in ecological thinking, she develops a practice of the image by which she questions our ecocide anchoring in the history of the earth and seeks other conditions of being-worldly. Anaïs Tondeur has been artist in residence at Chantiers Partagés (Le Centquatre, SGP, 2019), Artlink (Ireland, 2019), Musée des Arts et Métiers (2018-17), CNES (2016), Laboratoire de la Culture Durable (Domaine de Chamarande, 2015-16), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, (COP 21, 2015) and at La Chaire Arts & Sciences (Ecole polytechnique, 2015-13).

A graduate of Central Saint Martins (2008) and the Royal College of Arts (2010) in London and recipient of the Cyber Arts Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica (2019), she has presented and exhibited her work in international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Serpentines Galleries (London), Bozar (Brussels), Biennale Di Venezia, Pavillon Français, (Lieux Infinis), Houston Center of Photography (United States) or Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul).

487 nm or the colour state of the sea

THE BEACH - In front of the viewpoint (Outdoor)

At noon, during seven days, Anaïs Tondeur took a photograph of the sea fixing the meeting point between the horizon line and the Greenwich meridian. By trying to capture by a long exposure, the chromatic field of the sea. This protocol repeated every year invites us to pay attention to the phytoplankton, which give the Normandy waters their shades of green.

However, as their habitats change, these micro-organisms tend to migrate northwards, making the waters bluer and less rich. These photographs thus become witnesses to the evolution of climate change, palpable on the very palette of colours of the sea.


Networks :

Sites : www.anais-tondeur.com
Website of the foundation: https: //www.fondationphoto4food.com

487 nm or the colour state of the sea

Nadine JESTIN

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Nadine Jestin © Manu Munoz

"I had nothing in mind for photography, except for these cameras that were given to me throughout my life by the people who mattered. It is to tourism that I devoted my studies and my first professional chapter for twelve years. When the call of the image became too strong, I changed course, armed with my desire and a CAP photo obtained late.

I joined the Hans Lucas platform in 2017. For the past four years, I've devoted myself entirely to photography. Between contortions and discoveries, I draw my photographic approach. It is built around the autobiographical narrative (texts and photos) and poetry in the ordinary. Photography is for me a form of outlet as much as a form of sharing.

I now enjoy seeing my photos come to life on different supports: books, photographic objects and fine art prints under old frames. I am 39 years old, I am from Brest and after a long stay in Paris, I now live in Marseille".

Nadine Jestin

Flagrante delicto

THE VIEWPOINT - Place des Six Fusillés, at the corner of Boulevard de la Mer and Rue Tristan Bernard, next to the Olympic swimming pool

An autobiographical work on the theme of emotions as faithful as they are fickle, following us everywhere, all the time. Nadine Jestin gives us the colour of the landscapes and the depth of the experiences she lived during the residency.

The courage to lay bare. The audacity and risks of the job. The asphyxiation and other mischief of the mind. The ambivalence of luck. The melancholy of impermanence. Doubt and constancy. Fear of the big bath. The hope of encounter. The frustration of the lawn. The wave at the soul of a foggy day. The comfort of cotton. The chameleon-pink confusion. The power of spinning. Travelling in your emotions instead of running away from them. Going around them, drawing their contours.

Nadine Jestin

Networks :

Sites : www.nadinejestin.fr
Facebook : NadineJestin Photography
Instagram: jestinadine

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Martin Parr

Self-portrait, Benidorm, Spain, 1997 © Martin Parr Collection / Magnum Photos

Martin Parr is one of the most famous documentary photographers of his generation. With more than one hundred books and about thirty others published by him, his photographic legacy is already established. Martin Parr also acts as curator and editor. He has curated two photographic festivals, Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2004 and the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010.

More recently, he curated the exhibition "Strange and Familiar" at the Barbican Center in London. Martin Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was its President from 2013 to 2017. In 2013, he was appointed Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

Martin Parr's work is included in the collections of major museums such as the Tate, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2017, Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation. In 2019, the National Portrait Gallery in London hosted a major exhibition of his work entitled "Only Human".

Our neighbours the English

THE BEACH in front of Place Claude Lelouch

After Koto Bolofo, invited for the 2019 edition of the festival, it's Martin Parr's turn to be displayed in giant format on the beach of Deauville, with the exhibition "Nos voisins les anglais".

Between 1982 and 1985 Martin Parr directed The Last Resort, a work about holidays for families with modest incomes in New Brighton, a declining seaside resort near Liverpool. With irony, sarcasm, and sometimes tenderness, he recounted the transformation of lifestyles and the development of the consumer society. This series, published and presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 1986 and now "cult", was to launch Martin Parr's brilliant career and at the same time mark an important change in and for photography, with the affirmation of both colour and a new tone in the language of documentary.

Since then, his gaze, often balancing between humour and sarcasm, has spared few destinations - cities or beaches - preferred by mass tourism around the world. Today, Parr is a major and original figure in contemporary photography and at the same time one of the most popular. In this year marked by the Brexit, Planches Contact wanted to make a nod to England with iconic photographs by Martin Parr and by devoting an exhibition to him for the first time in Deauville. Laura Serani's choice was mainly focused on her images from the 80s and 90s which made her discover and which tell the story of life on the beach with irony but also with tenderness.

The difference between the images, so British, taken on the English coast and the reality of the mythical French beach of Deauville is increased by the time gap, between the customs and clothes of the time and those of today. All this inspires a certain nostalgia for those years, when Martin Parr was a blast in the world of photography, but also, already, a nostalgia for pre-Brexit?
By presenting holidaymakers, bathers and walkers, on the beach, in a giant and colourful installation, the trompe l'oeil effect is created, with a strange face to face with our neighbours - since this year a little distant - the English.

The site:www.martinparr.com

Our neighbours the English

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