The subject of this series is the city. Its location is not important because its identity is not at stake, only the singular possibilities of dérive that it offers. Guy Debord developed this concept in his Théorie de la Dérive as a possible definition of the practice of photography:

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What remains from the photographer’s passage along this road between Bamako and Zegoua? Nothing much. Harold does not take pictures, They escape him. Only dust remains. A few waves of burned color, A touch of light and shadow. Gone are big concepts and speeches.

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From July 2007 to August 2011, I traveled several times to Japan. I had long been fascinated with the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun. Throughout these travels, my stops in Tokyo rarely lasted longer than three days, sometimes only a single day. 72 hours can be both a lot , or very l...

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Travel for me is a time outside of my daily life. There’s no presiding question, no single goal, just the willingness to exchange with the places, people and feelings I encounter. These photographed “travel moments” were taken on multiple trips, mainly abroad but also in France. They...

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From town to town with a bag slung over his shoulder, Christopher Héry found his subjects by walking without any particular direction. He only takes pictures with his model’s permission, and only one or two, never more. Film is expensive, there are only thirty-six exposures, and all ...

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This series was taken during a long photographic journey through South America that Damien Guillaume took between March and September 2011. It is being exhibited here for the first time as part of the Festival Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs.

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According to the Romanian philosopher Cioran, Dor, the Romanian word for “nostalgia,” refers to a kind of melancholy similar to the famously untranslatable concept of saudade, a deep longing for something or someone that one loves, only fraught with more resignation to fate. Melanchol...

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Photography is a mental state for me. I came to it through travel. Conversely, the static nature of the image has the power to transport the viewer. In the rich diversity of France’s landscapes, the suburbs remain “anti-travel” zones. Built hastily and with a short history, they far from ...

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A return to my native country 50 years after its independence, 20 years after leaving it. How do I photograph it without being too obvious? The Africa we’re used to seeing in the West is not the Africa I know. I returned to Gabon as it emerges from 40 years of life under the same politi...

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Nocturnes 5.0 is a poetic voyage through our cities. In these Western cities, large and small, some of them capitals, I tried to capture the things that humanity has been unable to foresee. Beyond fear and solitude, at the heart of these troubled places where the real and its devourin...

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