À l’entrée du village de Teahupoo, sur la presqu’île de Tahiti, une borne rouge et blanche marquée du chiffre zéro annonce sobrement la fin de la route, qui se perd en un grand scintillement de fleurs sauvages dans le bleu indigo de l’Océan Pacifique. À quelques centaines de mètres du riva...

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As early as the 1930’s, Pierre Jamet fixed his humanistic and curious eye on the numerous times that he spent at the seaside. It may be in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, where he directed a summer camp during the Popular Front and afterwards became his homeport, or somewhere else in France and abroad ...

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Eric Prinvault offers a photographic and sound immersion into the Urak Lawoi of Koh Lanta, the famous island of the Andaman Sea, in southwest Thailand. This animist tribe of sailors and fishermen belongs to the big family of “nomads of the sea” of southeastern Asia.
Koh Lanta became th...

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It is in Istanbul, in front of the Bosphorus Canal, that the subject became evident for Consuelo le Mire. For four years she saw thousands of boats past her window and suddenly one day found a beauty in them that touched her despite their polluting reputation. Her exhibition, Cargos of...

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Lands of the Maybe, in the heart of the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands follow the rhythm of the weather. “We can chase the fog away with a fan”, affirms a Japanese proverb. When one lands on the archipelago, one would think you’d need an entire army of fans to clear a path through the ...

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Nothing. Really nothing to do. At last ! Hamburg-Montreal. 10 days in gestation looking at the sea coming in. And at the 1,200 containers with unknown contents. Mysterious boxes that carry along useless merchandise necessary to our consumerist life. Stand still and eat a bit of wind whi...

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Ahh travels…here I am, in a humid and tropical land – again! Before I arrived, my local contact had warned me: “Beware, the light sucks.” I had felt it just before landing in our nickel-plated plane: huge turbulence had made a woman scream behind me in the cabin while the empennage was b...

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What are these unidentified objects placed in the middle of “lunar” space on these docks symbolizing the metaphorical scene of a journey? Don’t they look like inter-temporal vessels feeding the lyrical imagination that accompanies the representation of the port landscape echoing the...

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A l’occasion du festival de la Photo de Mer, la Cité de La Mer de Cherbourg s’est associée à la ville de Vannes pour présenter des photos inédites du Titanic. Des images exceptionnelles de ce paquebot de légende réputé insubmersible habilleront le kiosque culturel ...

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This year, the General Counsel of Morbihan, in partnership with the City of Vannes, presents an exhibition about The T.K. Bremen by Phillip and Guillaume Plisson. This photographic tale with a happy ending, tells the story of exemplary crisis management: from the rescue of ...

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