This year the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme festival returns from June 15 to September 1 with the theme “In Praise of Slowness”.
There are 24 exhibitions in 9 locations Across the Vendôme region
In the race for acceleration, it is essential to slowly return to thought, reflection, and mature action to safeguard our plural cultures. Take time, slow down, look at the world around us, convey it poetically or movingly, catch our breath to enjoy daily life, rejoice in sharing, reflect consciously on the consequences of our actions, this is also the credo photographers gathered again this year to write together this photographic sentence, gently, but surely unforgettable…
FLORENCE JOUBERT
« GARDIENS DU TEMPS »
On Mont Aigoual is the last manned meteorological observatory in France.
Located on the roof of the Cévennes, it is subject to extreme phenomena. In this fortress, generations of people have scrutinized the sky, nature, and its states. Today, four of them still converse with the fog and the storms, resisting the assaults of the climate and the disappearance of this profession. Following the rhythm of the seasons and reading century-old records, I tried to understand the special relationship of meteorologists to weather in all its forms.
ANNY DUPEREY
« FILIATION »
For around twenty years, I devoted myself passionately to photography. […]
I had not yet […] had the courage to open the binders and boxes which contained the negatives of my deceased photographer father. I didn’t realize that my passion for photography was leading me to him. I had to follow the same path […] to approach it, to understand it.
Happy […] to make others discover – or rediscover – the superb photos of this unknown photographer: my father, Lucien Legras. As well as those of my sister, Patricia Legras, who followed in his footsteps…
MATTHIEU CHAZAL
« CHRONIQUES D’ORIENT »
The stones tremble, the bodies are thrown onto the roads of exile, destinies landlocked. In an antagonistic and seismic daily life, what still makes life in mankind? It is in territories fragmented by ethnic and territorial conflicts, from the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Iraq to Iran, that I try to capture the diversity of cultural expressions. If customs differ from one region to another, the capacity of people to be moved, to enjoy, to suffer is similar.
SARAH MOON
« La sirène d’Auderville »
“The Mermaid of Auderville” is a free adaptation of “The Little Mermaid by Andersen”, told and filmed. It is part of a series of 5 tales, all created in the same mode, shot on video, where photos and film mix, produced by a small team, with an economy of means which ultimately gave them a particular tone.
The translation of words through the image, subjective and contemporary from the enlarged eyes of Sarah MOON, is aimed at the child present in each spectator.
MARGAUX SENLIS
PROPOLIS
Bees and more broadly pollinators are among the endangered species. If we do not take all the measures necessary for their survival, they will quickly become extinct. There are multiple factors and the consequences that this could have on our ecosystem are immense. In response to this ecological crisis, I wanted to pay tribute to beekeepers, highlight their increasingly difficult profession and convey their contagious passion.
Margaux Senlis is winner of the 2018 Mark Grosset Prize.
LE FIGARO MAGAZINE
« HEREROS, LA MÉMOIRE D’UN PEUPLE MASSACRÉ »
Between 1904 and 1908, the German imperial army massacred and deported the Herero people to a territory that would become Namibia. Entrenched in the driest lands of the country, the Herero people survived.
After the war, the men adopted a uniform, which evokes… that of German soldiers! The women wear Victorian-style dresses. If the hunter puts on the skin of the beast he killed, the soldier seizes the enemy uniform, proof of his victory. After the genocide, the uniform and the dress became their identity.
