Henry B. Goodwin (1878-1931), born in Munich Germany as Heinrich Karl Hugo Bürgel, moved to Uppsala in Sweden in 1904. After becoming a naturalized Swede in 1908, he eventually anglicized his name to Henry Buergel Goodwin. Henry B. Goodwin will be presented with the exhibition "Vå...

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Travel leads one elsewhere. Not necessarily far away, but, inevitably, out of our daily lives. Our relationship to time changes, drastically or imperceptibly, adapting, accelerating and slowing down. In 2002, when I left Paris for India, I was fully aware of the reality that I wanted ...

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The vast and arid deserts of the southern province of Spanish Navarre, selected by Terry Gillian for his disastrous "Don Quixote", seem to have rubbed off on a handful of villages that border it. The landmarks there are distorted. No noticeable features mark the silent streets where...

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Bittersweet with tropical flavors, the Portuguese version of melancholy, saudade, is an invitation to travel. The series Saudade illustrates the nostalgia felt in several African countries, whose inhabitants stay put while boats, trains and automobiles head off towa...

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Karine Maussière likes the idea of traveling on familiar territory, linking the natural to the technical, bucolic landscape to urban cityscape, speaking of humanity and its erratic complexity, exposing the emptiness, investing a poetics of displacement (Chambres d’ailleurs 2006-2007).

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This series of photographs, entitled Paysages Improbables (Improbable Landscapes) is the result of a voyage from Paris to the Atlantic coast, from the land to the sea, from continent to ocean. These photographs question the idea of space and territory. The landscapes here are ...

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Luc Chery spent long periods of time in Jerusalem and Palestine from September 2000 to 2004, during what is considered the Second Intifada. His photographs are more than a simple report of the conflict, and they contain not a single scene of clashes, and still lifes, urban landscapes, faces...

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In this series, Dé-Réalité, I attempted to communicate the feeling of movement through the images that remained in my memory. I wanted to create a visual equivalent to the fleeting mental images I have held onto from my travels. How does memory work? It erases, defaces, selects, and ...

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From the traveling daguerreotypists to contemporary photographers, there has always been a link between travel and photography. For its 23rd edition, the Bordeaux festival Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs offers seventeen exhibitions with travel as their theme....

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Marcel Leliënhof (1966, the Netherlands) has been a professional photographer since 1993, and his list of merits as photographer is impressively comprehensive. Marcel was born in Rotterdam, and grew up in Bergen, Norway. At the age of 22 he moved to England, 14 years in London p...

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