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  • Ne bougeons plus ! Portraits of the people of Berry

    The Cher Departmental Archives have gone through their own holdings to trace how the photographic portrait changed. The sequence runs from the Sand family, sat for Nadar, to the work of Marcelle Vatan, a photographer based at Sancerre. Individuals, families and groups face the lens, and what they wore and stood beside tells how people of Berry lived. Bourges holds it, inside the Bicentennial of Photography and the Year of George Sand.

  • Nous prendrons la mer avec nous, au Café Marylène

    Maud Veith is a documentary photographer settled at Plougasnou, whose work follows women in situations of political or social strain. The Café Marylène has invited her to show the opening stage of a long photographic enquiry. « Nous prendrons la mer avec nous » gathers the accounts of women of the Breton coast on exile and the sea. Portraits hang beside written testimony, of crossings, mutual help, boredom, disappearances and miracles.

  • Bons Baisers de Plounéour à l’Abbaye du Relec

    Reproductions of postcards of Plounéour-Ménez from the last century hang in the park of the Abbaye du Relec and along the streets of the bourg. Their picture sides carry the commune’s landscapes, its trades and its places of daily life. On the reverse, messages of all kinds pass on fragments of ordinary existence. The old views and the standing village, read side by side, let a walker measure what the built and natural heritage has kept.

  • « Transmission(s), regards croisés » à Redon

    The Groupement Culturel Breton opens its photographic archive at the Centre social Confluence, on Rue Guy Pabois in Redon. The series holds scenes of transmission: a geste, an air, a pas de danse, a story. Some travel de bouche à oreille, others de main à main, and together they shape a collective memory. The show hangs alongside the Bogue d’Or, the town’s gathering of chant, conte, musique and danse de tradition populaire, and entry is free.

  • De phare en lumière: Ramiro Chaves at the Pointe du Raz

    Ramiro Chaves photographed the Breton coast after dark, with the beam of a lighthouse for his only light. He made the series along this shore during a residency run from Brest by the Centre Atlantique de la Photographie. A photographer from Córdoba who has long lived in Mexico, he sets those images against a stronger southern light. The show joins the Maison de site’s season on lighthouses and the Curieux Mexique cycle of a Cap Sizun collective.

  • Sur la route de Cléden-Poher : costumes bretons

    Lévénès de Cléden-Poher hangs his photographic portraits in the town hall at Cléguérec. Men and women of the different pays bretons sit for the camera in traditional costume rebuilt faithfully. Interactive labels carry a QR code opening a sound capsule and a biography. The Breton costume works here as a visual identity card, declaring its wearer’s territory, period and social standing. The photographer leads a guided visit of his own hanging.

  • Les îles d’Iroise d’hier à aujourd’hui, au CEMO

    The Centre d’Étude du Milieu d’Ouessant gives over its Ar Gouzou hall to two displays on the heritage and history of the island. One carries the title « The Iroise Islands: Past and Present », the other « The Islands of Ouessant ». Photographs sit beside documents and personal accounts. They record the life and the landscapes of the archipelago over time, assembled by the centre that studies the Iroise milieu.

  • Une épopée urbaine : Redon en photographies

    Redon’s urban fabric has been forming since the Middle Ages, and the second half of the twentieth century reshaped the town and the way its people lived in it. The photographs put that change on view and ask what inhabiting the town means now. The City of Redon mounts the exhibition with the Groupement culturel breton des Pays de Vilaine and the APPHR. It belongs to La Bogue d’Or, the autumn season Redon gives to Breton tale and music.

  • Benoît Stichelbaut, the coast of Brittany in photographs

    The media library gives its walls to Benoît Stichelbaut, who has photographed the sea for thirty years from his base in Concarneau. The prints follow the coast he knows best: the lighthouses of the Iroise Sea, the islands of the Ponant, small hidden harbours and the yards where boats are built. His racing work runs alongside them, from the great transatlantic starts to the skippers he has followed. The series is Brittany read from the water.

  • La vie en bleu: cyanotype at the Château de Quintin

    Julie Mainguet brings the old cyanotype technique to the Château de Quintin, and each participant leaves with two plant works in shades of blue. The session is built as a creative and sensory workshop, open from the age of five and taken on booking. Plants or objects brought from home can go into the picture. It sits in Les Minutes Bleues, the festival the Côtes d’Armor stages in 24 hauts lieux du patrimoine naturel et culturel, at dawn or dusk.