This April, Bordeaux will host the 22nd edition of the Festival Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs. Sharing the role of artistic director are Nathalie Lamire-Fabre and Vincent Bengold, who have invited sixteen photographers, the majority of them from a younge...

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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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I was covering a news story in Navarre when I discovered the Bardenas Reales. That’s where I “found” the piece of land that would serve as the setting for the photographs in this series. Once back in Paris, I began to imagine scenes that would play on the miniature character of the land...

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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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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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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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The path taken by Thibault de Puyfontaine is like that of a moth drawn to light and neon bulbs. The first stage of “Late Colors” led him to Egypt and Mozambique. There are no landmarks to tell us whether we are in the maze of Cairo, the souks of Alexandria or the alleys of Mapu...

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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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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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Kristine Thiemann’s photography is rooted in the personal stories of the people she meets. With humor, tenderness and a critical eye, she creates fictive group situations, offering us off-kilter stories and skits where the citizens becomes characters in a carefully composed tableau ...

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Baptiste de Ville d’Avray’s photography is both artistic and documentary. It focuses on the areas that surround us and the men who live there. Baptiste uses a color palette to idealize the people he encounters as he roams the landscape. The series Je vous écris de Turquie (...

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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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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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After questioning the borders and connection between our cities with the project Transit, we want to broaden our horizons to the rest of Europe, in particular a border town where the economic differences between it and its neighboring continent are the largest.
We had hear...

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In the five photographs in Cristina de Middel’s series POLYSPAL, the artist uses actual spam message that she received that year.Using the most bizarre among them, she builds meticulously constructed worlds based on their contents, creating a palpable (and photographable) reality.

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