Applicants were invited for Boutographies: Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier after a call to European photographers. This year, the jury was presided over by Valérie Cazin of the Binôme Gallery in Paris.
The programme for 2017 offers a wide display of the ways the photographic image has been considered and constructed by the most talented of the more than six hundred photographers who presented their work this year. Some have approached the image from a point of view primarily physical – odours, sounds, and non-figurative perceptions, images which refuse all points of reference to exert better their greater imaginative or symbolic power. Christelle Boulé, Eun Chun and Jannemarein Renout took this route. The other artists presented on the walls or in projection are closer to a more traditional photographic narrative, but no less attentive to sensitivity, a human presence and a relationship to a given space. Sandra Mehl, who we are delighted to welcome for her first important exhibition in her home town, and Ali Mobasser observe the presence of individuals for whom they have a close attachment, in a relationship full of curiosity, empathy and questioning. For Zoé Van Der Haegen and Flaminia Celata (Fotoleggendo Exchange Prize 2016), nature carries the memory of a human presence that intervenes in the forms, material and substance, even before exercising its power of making an image of the world.
The Boutographies Team
Les Boutographies, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier
From 6th to 28th May 2017
Pavillon populaire
Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, Montpellier
And at various places in the city
Full programme at:
www.boutographies.com/
