The festival ImageSingulières, dedicated to documentary photography, will run from June 2nd until July 10th in Hérault, at Sète. Organized by the association CéTàVOIR, the show is run by Gilles Favier, artistic director and Valérie Laquittant, director of the festival. For this 3rd edition, the program presents to the public documentary works that are not only rich but varied, moved by debates, encounters and evening slide shows.
• Sète#11 – Juan Manuel CASTRO PRIETO
Juna Manuel Prieto is the resident photographer of Sète for this 2011 edition. The Spanish photographer had carte blanche : he chose his large format 20×25 in color to immortalize his vision of the town of Sète. His work is the object of a new edition of the collection ImageSingulières : Sète#11.
• Mafia(s)
Mafia(s) is a collective exhibition on the work of Letizia Battaglia, on the theme of mafias in the world. Regrouping numerous artists, Mafia(s) associates projections, prints, and painting around an original scenographie of containers. Letizia Battaglia fought her entire lifte against the Sicilian mafia, and for justice. She shows us that photography, by it’s innate force, can work as an arm and as a way to extend the voice of a silent and oppressed majority. The wild energy that she continues to show, her inner force and her capacity for resistance are the secrets to her efficience.
Stanislas Guigui, El Cartucho
Bruce Gilden, “Picnic with Sergey
Christian Poveda, La Vida Loca
Diego Levy, Sangre
Elisabeth Cosimi, Quick Money
Stephan Biascamano, La maffia setora
André Cervera, Hommage à James Ellroy
Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl
• Fault Lines – George Georgiou
The British photographer spent five years of his life in Turkey. Situated between Europe and Asia, the country has lived through contradictory tensions, both from a religious point of view, political and social. George Georgiou makes a study of this country in complete mutation.
• Fluffy Clouds – Jürgen Nefzger
Between 2003 and 2006, Jürgen Nefzge criss-crossed Europe in his VW bus and his 4×5 view camera. From his travels was born a series of « atomic » landscapes. These images of nuclear factories resonate ever more with today’s current events, after the drama of Fukushima and the political questionning on nuclear energy. These factories are very much a part of our daily lives.
• Looking down from high above – Nadja Groux
Nadja Groux was living in recluse in her home for almost two years after an accident. She photographed just about everything in her apartment. As well as the view on the view on the street, in particular from one of her windows overlooking the intersection of 127th street and Nicholas Terrace in Harlem. A work that is both ethnological and social in a story-board manner.
• Dorothea Lange – Migrant Farmers
Going back 80 years in time, with the work of Dorothea Lange. Asked to witness objectively the living and working conditions of rural Americans effected by the Great Depression of 1929, Dorothea Lange, along with other photographers, helped to consitute a collection of 270,000 documents. The exhibition presents a series of approximately 60 images retracing the exodus of these farmers.
• Tendance Floue : Mad in Sète
This year, the collective Tendance Floue is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate this, the photographers chose to invest in the town of Sète. After Mad in China, Mad in India : Mad in Sète ! A photographic fresco that is 60 meters long has been installed in an industrial building close to the train station. A livre in the format of its precendants, « Mad in » will be published following the show.
Also showing : Black Sea – Vanessa Winship Ibérica – Ricky DáVila Agua branca – Ludovic Carème Ginza-Line – Marc Gouby Morgante – Nicola Lo Calzo Supervision L.A. – Olivier Mirguet
