Spring is back and like every year it is the openning of the photography festival in Le Mans For its 34th edition, the Festival de l’image association invites spectators to visit the Les Photographiques from March 10 through April 1, 2012.

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Throughout its 34 years , the festival has introduced more than 300 photographers to the city of Le Mans, including such illustrious signatures as Sabine Weiss, Bernard Plossu or Claude Dityvon, among others… It began in 1978 with the name Festival de l'ima...

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For the past twenty years, the Festival de l’Image association has acquired works by artists and collectors of antique photography. Today the association dispose of a sizable heritage . A selection of 15 photographs by Sabine Weiss, Nicolas Comment, François Nicolas L'Hardy, Bailly Maître...

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This humanistic, philosophic and poetic tale was told in Chili, in the Atacama desert, in the Humberstone salitrera, producer of saltpeter until 1960 when it was abandoned for chemical fertilizers. Fallen prey to the scars of time, the streets of this old now phantom city ...

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night,” Edgar Allan Poe. This is how these girls, carried away in the air by objects, let themselves travel through boundless landscapes. Flying towards dreamed lands, making real a complete attractio...

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Philippe Dugay works on the decontextualization of objects. His constructions float between light and darkness, between reality and fiction. In this inside outside dialogue, the pictures of landscapes and interiors, taken in a tangible and familiar reality, focus on the space aro...

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Derived from fairy-tale imagery, L’horloge is part of the series Les confitures, small fragments of stories rooted in childhood memories. Like Hans Christian Andersen’s heroine Thumbelina, silent and passive before life’s intrigues, the characters of these series live through enigmatic and som...

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A young photographer, Estelle Largarde kept a journal documenting her treatment for adenocarcinoma in her breast. The journal combined pictures and text. It would have been interesting and important enough had she simply turned it into an article, a record of the treatment.

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What does the word ‘Chernobyl’ bring to mind? A nuclear catastrophy. A government lie about a radioactive cloud that didn’t cross our border. Deformed children. An utter disaster. Chernobyl is like radioactivity itself: dangerous, yet abstract. So how can we make ...

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A rise in human density will lead inexorably to a rise in urban density. Modeled after the large international metropolises, cities fill up and spaces divide to form new living structures. Structures Urbaines is a series in which I wanted to evoke the problems or organization in urb...

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Lastly, Les Photographiques will present the work of four other photographers: Francis Jalain’s “Mémoires,” Michel Lagarde’s self-portraits in a series entitled “Dramagraphies,” Christophe Salles on his photographs of cities, and an Yves Allain.

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