Thoissey dans l’objectif gathers contrasting views of a town through photography. Its heritage and environment provide subjects alongside the activities that animate its streets. Each image reflects the photographer’s individual sensitivity to the scene. The Club-Photo de Blacé develops this portrait in collaboration with the town and the Amis du Vieux Thoissey et de ses Environs.
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Lamotte-Beuvron d’Hier à Aujourd’hui
Canton de Lamotte-Beuvron d’Hier à Aujourd’hui traces a rural landscape through photography. The Club Photo-Lamottois returns to the same places and recreates the original compositions. Participants of all ages pose in these new photographic tableaux. In Chaon, the Amis de la Maison du Braconnage host a comparison of the canton’s earlier views and present-day scenes.
Chartres, douze arrêts sur mémoire: the atelier Aubert
Twelve large prints line an open-air walk through the centre of Chartres, drawn from the atelier Aubert, whose photographer caught the city and its inhabitants at the start of the last century. Many of these images had never been shown. Each panel sets a street, a square or a corner of the cathedral surroundings beside what stands there now, from wartime damage to rebuilt quarters. The city invites passers-by to argue with its own memory.
Dans l’atelier : les Ateliers Lorin en photographies
An exhibition at Chartres’s Hôtel de Ville et d’Agglomération presents around twenty photographs of the Ateliers Lorin. The stained-glass workshop is a recognised part of the city’s heritage. Images made by the Centre-Val de Loire Region’s Inventory Department explore the workshop and its stained-glass techniques. The exhibition is organised in partnership with the Region.
Chaumussay in Black and White: A Village Album
Chaumussay appears through old photographs and postcards in Le temps suspendu, an exhibition devoted to the commune’s past. Black-and-white views bring together images that once circulated as cards and others preserved as photographs. The collection forms a village album, inviting attention to the places recorded and to the ways earlier photographers chose to frame them.
George Sand’s Addresses: From Paris to Berry
George Sand’s addresses become a route through her life in Jocelyne BARON’s exhibition. Photographs, old postcards, maps and documents follow her from Parisian homes to the places where she grew up and lived in Berry. Sand’s own texts accompany the journey, linking physical settings with the writing they helped shape and with changing views of those places.
Ferrières: Four Decades of Heritage in Photographs
Four decades of research and preservation come together in the anniversary exhibition of the Association Recherches, Sauvegarde et Patrimoine Ferriérois. Photographs draw attention to the Gâtinais heritage it has worked to protect. Archives and discoveries add the story of that continuing effort, placing the association’s accumulated knowledge alongside the places and traces it studies.
Maintenon Through Artists’ Eyes and Archive Images
Artists’ views of Maintenon meet photographs from its past in an exhibition produced with the Fondation Mansart. Paintings, drawings and engravings interpret the château, town and surrounding landscapes. Older and archival photographs add a documentary counterpoint, allowing changes in the place to be read alongside the ways artists have chosen to picture it.
Levroux’s Heritage Through Residents’ Photographs
Landscapes and scenes of daily life appear through residents’ lenses in this participatory exhibition in Levroux. Photographs from the community contest join older and more recent views of the Levroux Boischaut Champagne territory. Buildings, details and familiar atmospheres become a collective portrait, shaped by what the people who live there choose to notice and preserve.
L’arbre photographique: Imagined Families in Pictures
Old photographs become the beginnings of an invented family in L’arbre photographique. Children aged nine to fourteen handle images from different periods, arranging characters together on a shared timeline. Gwenola Furic, a specialist in photographic conservation and restoration, leads the workshop, combining attention to fragile visual heritage with a collaborative exercise in imagining lives.