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2 0 1 5 PRESS KIT Press contact: Delphine Barré - Communications department, City of Deauville 06 87 52 65 81 – 02 31 14 69 42 - [email protected] Florence Rosenfeld- Verbatim Agency 01 44 61 70 26 – 06 07 01 65 65 - [email protected] http://www.deauville-photo.fr

Planche(s) Contact, a festival that questions and reveals a city’s multiple photographic identities

How do photographers present the imaginary world and atmosphere of a city they have wandered and discovered? One of the greatest challenges and joys of photography is discovering which New York City is presented to us through the eyes of Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Franck, Garry Winogrand, William Klein or Nan Golding… Wandering Paris by night or day guided by Brassaï, Willy Ronis or Martin Parr; Valparaiso with Sergio Larrain or the streets of Tokyo with William Klein…

Since its foundation in 1860 and throughout its brief history, Deauville, whose identity is multiple and complex, has always welcomed any plays of glances and discoveries. Successively, the Seeberger Brothers, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Schall, Willy Rizzo, Robert Capa, Emeric Feher, Gisèle Freund, Henri Cartier Bresson and the Magnum photographers, Robert Doisneau, Peter Lindbergh as well as great fashion photographers have explored the city and photographed Deauville with curiosity and inspiration.

Since its creation in 2010, the Planche(s) Contact photography festival, Lise Sarfati, Charles Fréger, Massimo Vitalli, Filip Dujardin, Meffre & Marchand, Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon, Kishin Shinoyama, Lars Turnbjork, Harry Gruyaert, Philippe Ramette etc. have been invited as the festival main figures to share their own vision of the city, their personal appropriation of Deauville.

Their works, inspired by Deauville, are preserved at the end of each festival. They are part of the city’s photography collection, which keeps growing year after year. The collection is unique and singular and will be revealed to the public at the opening of the new cultural project site of the Franciscaines, which is scheduled for 2018.

Five years after its creation, Planche(s) Contact has become a reference in photography events in Normandy, illustrating the important part that the city has played in the world of photography as it has in the history of impressionism.

In 2015, Planche(s) Contact explores new dynamics which will allow the festival to grow and develop stronger links with regional sponsors and reach a wider audience.

A contact sheet is for many generations of photographers a mosaic of images, a narration and genesis of a photographic approach, familiar to many generations of photographers. For the city of Deauville, Planche(s) Contact is becoming more and more important as a creative and festive event, joining every autumn, the city and its inhabitants, as well as its visitors with their special relationship with photography.

Philippe Normand Artistic director

2015 CALENDAR

PHOTOGRAPHER RESIDENCE IN DEAUVILLE MARION POUSSIER: Wednesday May 27th > Saturday May 31st, Wednesday June 24th > Wednesday July 1st BRUNO BARBEY: Friday June 5th > Sunday June 7th, Friday August 28th > Sunday August 30th WANG LIN: Monday June 8th > Tuesday June 16th BRIAN GRIFFIN: Monday June 15th > Thursday June 25th CORINNE MERCADIER: Wednesday June 17th > Friday June 19th, Wednesday June 24th > Friday June 26th MEYER: Tuesday August 18th > Wednesday August 26th

STUDENT RESIDENCE ENSP ARLES, ECAL DE LAUSANNE & LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION Monday June 29th > Thursday July 9th

MAÏA IZZO-FOULQUIER LAUREATE OF THE 2014 LOUIS ROEDERER FOUNDATION STUDENT CONTEST Monday June 15th > Friday June 25th

EXHIBITIONS ARE OPEN EVERY DAY FROM OCTOBER 17TH TO NOVEMBER 1ST, THEN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY UNTIL NOVEMBER 29TH Schedule: 10.30 am > 1 pm – 2.30 pm > 7 pm

MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17TH - FESTIVAL OPENING - VERNISSAGE OF THE OFF EXHIBITIONS

SATURDAY 24TH & SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH PLANCHES CONTACT WEEK-END Saturday October 24th 4 pm: multi-gallery vernissage 6 pm: student contest awards ceremony Midnight: 25th hour photography contest Sunday October 25th 11.45 am: 25th hour photography contest awards ceremony

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21th – 11 am - INAUGURATION OF THE TOUQUES BOARDWALK - In the Presqu’île de la Touques, which benefits from a project of urban redevelopment, twelve images will be displayed on the boardwalk recently opened at the quay bordering Touques. The inauguration ceremony presented at the heart of the Planche(s) Contact festival will be an opportunity to appreciate the photos captured by Massimo Vitali, Sarah Moon, Kishin Shinoyama, Charles Freger, Paolo Roversi, Harry Gruyaert, Philippe Ramette or even Filip Dujardin, guests of the previous editions. Pont des Belges – Free access.

MEETING THE GUEST PHOTOGRAPHS

All Fridays and Saturdays in November, following the same principle, in three different events: Friday, 2.30 pm: meeting with the students Saturday, 11 am > 1 pm: dedication in the market bookshop Saturday, 3 pm > 5 pm: meeting with the public

MEETING WITH CORINNE MERCADIER Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November

MEETING WITH MARION POUSSIER Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November Attention, specific schedule: commented visit on Saturdays from 10 am to 12 am. Dedication from 12 to 12.45 am, in the Franciscaines.

MEETING WITH MEYER Friday 20th and Saturday 21st November

MEETING WITH BRUNO BARBEY Friday 27th and Saturday 28th November

GUIDED VISITS OF THE EXHIBITIONS

GUIDED VISITS OF THE POINT DE VUE EXHIBITIONS: Monday 19th, Friday 23rd, Wednesday 28th, Saturday 31st October – 5 pm > 6 pm

GUIDED VISITS OF THE FRANCISCAINES EXHIBITIONS: Wednesday 21st, Friday 30th October – 5 pm > 6 pm

GUIDED VISIT OF THE EXHIBITION BY STUDENTS: Sunday October 25th – 4 pm > 5 pm

CHILDREN WORKSHOP

CHILDREN WORKSHOP AGE 8 - 12 IN FRANCISCAINES Wednesday October 21st – 10 am > 12 am & Monday October 26th – 5 pm > 6 pm Visit of the exhibition and playgroup about the image.

CHILDREN WORKSHOP AGE 8 - 12 IN LE POINT DE VUE Wednesday October 28th – 10 am > 12am Visit of the exhibition and playgroup about the image.

PHOTO TRAINING « MASTERING THE MANUAL MODE OF YOUR CAMERA » Saturday October 31st & November 7th - 2 pm > 5 pm – Le point de Vue This training is addressed to people having already a first experience in the field of photography and interested in using all functions of their camera to improve their creativity. After a theory presentation, you are going to discover the city of Deauville to identify and deal with potential technical challenges. Your trainer: Based in Honfleur, Nicolas Reitzaum is a portrait photographer for the press. He organizes photo training events all year long.

All these events are free. A registration is needed on the website www.deauville.fr or at the Tourism Office - 02 31 14 40 00, or 15 min before at the meeting place. Children workshops: within the limit of the number of places available.

BRIAN GRIFFIN Le conseil des Sages Point de vue, Salle parquet

In Deauville, Brian Griffin, following the influence of the imaginary of expressionist cinema, met the Conseil des Sages (Elder council), composed of 20 influent Deauville personalities that have highly contributed to the local public life. He captured a series of 20 portraits, remarkable by the strength of his framing, his way of presenting the subjects and his incredible use of artificial lighting.

Globally acclaimed for his black & white portraits captured in closed spaces or natural settings, Brian Griffin was discovered in France, in Arles, in 1987. He started by creating album covers for Iggy Pop, Ian Durry, Joe Jackson, Dépêche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Ringo Star, before dedicating his work to an inventive and audacious advertising creation. Brian Griffin was exhibited between 1984 and 2014 in Tokyo, Hamburg, Houston, Cologne, Amsterdam, Prague, Barcelone, Milan, Gand, Stockholm, Anvers, Montréal, etc. In 2004 he directed a documentary he wrote about Paul McCartney at the musician’s request. In 2009, the Arles Meetings dedicated a big exposition to his work. Brian Griffin received an important order from the London Olympic Games (2009) and was invited to the only photography order of Marseille 2013, where he shot a remarkable portrait series of the city’s dockers. The National Portrait Gallery of London dedicated a grand retrospective exhibition to him in 2010.

Brian Griffin’s photographs are found in the public collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the museums of Edinburgh, Essen, Birmingham, Reykjavik and Braga. Brian

Griffin has published about 15 works and photograph collections, in beautiful books that have become very sought after and prized creations. Brian Griffin is an associate professor at the University of Bologna and Doctor honoris causa at the University of Birmingham since 2014.

Brian Griffin by Ashley Franklin

BRUNO BARBEY Deauville 1966-2015, une allure folle Point de Vue

Deauville, 2015 © Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photo

Deauville, 1966 © Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photos

In August of 1966, Bruno Barbey was shooting for Vogue in Deauville. Fifteen images of this photo report, mostly forgotten, are the starting point of Barbey’s return in Deauville, 50 years later. The photographer came back to Deauville to capture another 15 images in a city that has evolved over the years whereas Barbey’s vision remains unaltered. This new perspective will be presented simultaneously with the great Bruno Barbey retrospective in October of 2015 by the MEP (European House of Photography) in Paris.

When Bruno Barbey arrived in Deauville in 1966, the city, still at the peak of its popularity was undergoing changes. A few months earlier, the movie A man and a woman, directed by Claude Lelouch won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival. Bruno Barbey wandered the city’s streets and captured the rituals and customs of summer 1966. He explored the beach and the Planches, watched the horse races, and photographed the owners, players, and jockeys. He also shot the Polo tournament final, where he watched from afar the friendly conversations between Jean-Claude Brialy, Régine, and Marie Bell, or the ones of Maurice Chevalier and Lucien Barrière. He captured the atmosphere of the casino’s Fur Night, an elegant and festive event; he witnessed the arrival of Prince Philip of Edinburgh with his British peers before going to the yearling sales. After 50 years of reporting and with the same curiosity, Bruno Barbey captured the spring and summer of Deauville. For the 2015 Planche(s) Contact festival, Bruno Barbey will present this unique project illustrating 50 years of photography practice. Planche(s) Contact continues its partnership with Magnum Photos, which started a few years ago with the residency of Lise Sartafi (2010) and Harry Gruyaert (2013).

Bruno Barbey was born in Morocco. He studied photography at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. From 1961 to 1964, he photographed the people of Italy with the idea of creating the portrait of a nation. In the 1960’s, the Editions Rencontre publishing agency asked him to create a series of books on European and African countries. At that time, he also regularly worked with Vogue magazine. In 1964, he started working with the Magnum photo agency, and became a member in 1968. The same year, he covered the events of May of ´68 in Paris, as well as in Tokyo. Ten years later, between 1979 and 1981, he photographed Poland at an historic turning point and released his work in a globally published book. He was president of Magnum Europe in 1978 and 1979 and president of Magnum International from 1992 to 1995.

Over a 50 year period, Bruno Barbey covered many conflicts around the world. Despite not officially being a “war photographer”, he has covered the war in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle-East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait. Bruno Barbey is known for his particularly harmonious use of light. He has often photographed his childhood country of Morocco. In 1999, the “Musée du Petit Palais” in Paris organized a huge exhibition of his works, created over a 30 year period. He received many awards for his work, including the “Ordre du Mérite”. His photographs are displayed across the world and are part of many museum collections, such as the Centre George Pompidou, the National Library of Paris, the Arabian World Institute, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Istanbul Modern, and the Seoul Museum of Art. His work has been published in the greatest international magazines such as Life, National Geographic, Stern, Paris Match, and the London Sunday Times.

Expositions 2015 Deauville 1966-2015: « Une allure folle », Deauville, France. Morocco: A Scorching Beauty, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. China since 1973, F11 Photographic Museum, Hong Kong. Passages. Rétrospective, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France.

Parallel to the exhibition of Bruno Barbey during Planche(s) Contact, Festival of creative photography in Deauville, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents the “Bruno Barbey, Passages” exhibition in Paris, from November 12th to January 17th, 2016.

Bruno Barbey, 1995 © Magnum Photos

CORINNE MERCADIER Le ciel commence ici Point de Vue

Adoration, Le ciel commence ici series, 2014. Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris.

Corinne Mercadier is a photographer and plastic artist and was a finalist in the 2013 Fine Arts Academy’s photography competition. As part of the Planche(s) Contact festival, she will continue her “Le ciel commence ici” (The sky starts here) series, which she started in 2013 in Deauville, depicting scenes captured by day and edited by night in various ambiances with dancers and objects on the roofs of great seaside establishments (Casino, Normandy Hotel, Olympic swimming pool, Pompeian baths). Corinne Mercadier captured unique and mysterious scenes in exclusive settings.

“Le ciel commence ici” is a series which, at its project stage in 2013, reached the finals at the Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts. The Paris Observatory and Saint-Germain- en-Laye castle were captured by the artist in 2014. The places that stage this creation, whether they are dedicated to art, to culture, or to leisure activities, form an exceptional constellation. The architecture links space and time to the unknown hovering over them. […] The goal is to transform rooftops into a privileged space, linking the city, the sea and the sky in a unique manner, to reach the “sublime point” usually invisible from view”.

Corinne Mercadier

The photographic works of Corinne Mercadier were linked, until 2008, to the Polaroid SX70. From these snaps, she created enlarged prints in different formats. The Paysages series (1992) and Où commence le ciel? (1995-1996) outline the void, the horizon and play with points of view and framing. Since 2000, she has made soft sculptures destined to be thrown and photographed in the Une fois et pas plus series (2000-2002) and Longue Distance (2005- 2007).

That year, the production stoppage of the Polaroid SX70 film, encouraged Corinne Mercadier to experiment with new photographic mediums, from which she chose a digital option. These tools have brought significant changes to picture taking and to the aesthetic of images. The two first series she created using these new techniques, Solo and Black Screen, were presented at the Photography Month in Paris, in 2012.

In 2014, the Fotografiska museum of Stockholm dedicated a retrospective of her work called « Wicked Gravity ». In 2013, she was invited by the Réattu museum of Arles to take part in the Nuage exhibition, and the city of Rennes presented on its city hall plaza an exhibition gathering 40 of her photographs dated between 1992 and 2012.

Corinne Mercadier has regularly exhibited since 1998 at the Filles du calvaire gallery in Paris by which she is currently represented. Her photographs have also been exhibited at the Alan Klotz gallery in New York City in 2006 and 2008; at the Fotofest festival in Houston, Texas; at the FIAC and Paris Photo (at the Filles du Calvaire stand); at the Primavera FotoGrafica in Barcelona; the Arco in Madrid and the AIPAD in New York City. In 2001, Corinne Mercadier received the Prix Atladis and exhibited at the Durand-Dessert gallery in Paris, as well as at the Juana de Aizpuru gallery in Madrid. In 2003, she obtained an order from the Musée Réattu of Arles and from the Ministry of culture, for which she created the La Suite d’Arles series.

Her photographs are part of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection, the FNAC (National Contemporary Arts funds of Paris), the Polaroid Corporation collection; the Musée de l’Image of Epinal; the Malraux museum of Le Havre, and the Réattu museum of Arles. Corinne Mercadier has published most of her works through the Filigranes publishing agency: Où commence le ciel? (1996), Dreaming Journal (1999), a monography (2007), and her last work: “Devant un champ obscure” (2012). Her works were acquired by the art libraries of Anger, Nantes, Grenoble, Villefranche-sur-Saone, by the Chateau d’Eau in Toulouse and by the Imagerie in Lannion.

Corinne Mercadier par Antoine Rambourg

MARION POUSSIER Love Les Franciscaines

No title, LOVE collection, 2015 © Marion Poussier

A large format view camera in the hands, Marion Poussier came and photographed teenagers in Deauville to carry on his project on youth. She has focused on the enigmatic issue of love at the age of fifteen. I would like to be in love, you would like to be in love, we would like to be in love. LOVE is a plunge into the teenagers’ heart.

Marion Poussier was born in Rennes in 1980. After having spent three years at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (2000-2003), she fully dedicated herself to photography. In 2006 she received the Lucien et Rodolf Hervé award for her series of photographs on adolescence. Titled “Un été” (A summer), this series has been exhibited during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (Arles) under the mentoring of Raymond Depardon and joined the Cartier foundation for contemporary art collection and the National Foundation for Contemporary Art. In 2010, Marion Poussier received the Fine Arts Academy’s Grand Prix of Photography. In 2014, she was invited to the Open Air Film Festival (parc de La Villette – Paris) to produce a series of short movies about adolescence. Marion Poussier lives and works in Paris. Her photographs have been exhibited in France and abroad. She is represented by the Agnès b. collection.

Marion Poussier by Laurent Krief

MEYER Polo, portraits and reconstruction Outdoor exhibition, Square François André

Meyer, portrait –Deauville Polo 2015

As a native of Nîmes, Meyer has widely explored the back stages and rituals of corrida, under the scorching southern sun. After having photographed men and bulls up close, he then started capturing them from the top of the arena and multiplied them in surprising and unique montages. It is with this new gaze and new passion for reconstructed reality that Meyer will discover and rebuild Deauville’s Polo Coupe d’Or, created in 1950 in a city where polo is practiced since 1865.

“For this 2015 residence in Deauville, I wanted to present a project focused on the equestrian world, and particularly around polo matches. I believe that this sport can be an ideal way of approaching one of the city’s main elements through a new perspective with contemporary and playful photography. Today, one photograph can be composed of various timelines, which enhances the ambiguity that photography shares with reality. We can imagine a series of images, of compositions that combine different instants of a sports game; these moments are suspended, in apparent chaos, to what will follow… a constant expectation of the future, unconscious of the game’s outcome. It involves playing with metaphysical questions and presenting a playful and imaginary photography, as a way of tipping the polo game upside down. On the other hand, I also wish to present the equestrian world in a more general way, to celebrate its beauty and the magic it creates. François Cheval explains: “the photographic process fancies nothing more than the unplanned, accidents. The relevancy of the photographic object is only acquired through one’s capacity of distancing oneself from the expected and initial suppositions””. – Meyer. 14

As a new generation photo reporter, Meyer is one of the founding members of the Tendance Floue collective, which draws its report subjects in a social and humanist approach. As a reporter, Meyer came to photograph Deauville for the Le Pélérin magazine in October of 2012.

Meyer uses photography to capture a fleeting reality. His vision of Palestine’s occupied territories was presented in a photograph series composed of 11 silent and tormented images. Since 2003, and for a 5-year period, he followed the course of the Ambulant Digital Cinema in Western Africa and captured the improbable meeting between the African cinema and its audience. He produced his “Mon frère lumière” (My brother light) series, showing the faces of the audience during the cinema screening sessions. He then started to practice photo montage. He created the “Portraits decalés” in Mali, a photographic invitation to travel. In each image, the gap between the subject and his setting, in sceneries often shot a thousand miles away from Bamako, reveals its own poetry.

2012 – Invited in residence in Madrid by Cobertura Photo, he starts an in-depth work on the corrida world. 2011- Release of the book Dans le cinema, l’enfant spectateur, co-published by the Alhambra Ciné Marseille and Tendance Floue. 2010- The Portraits décalés series is presented at the Head On festival in Australia. 2007- 3rd prize of the World Press Photo (Art & show category) for the Mon frère Lumière series. 2006- The Mon frère Lumière series is presented at the Arles Meetings. 2005- Exhibition of the Putain de Maïeutique Camarguaise series at the Arles Meetings. 2002- Exhibition of the Palestine series at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. The series was rewarded by the Prix special du Jury Paris-Match the same year.

Meyer/ Tendance floue

WANG LIN Stray tulips: series of self-portraits in the Deauville- Normandie airport Promenade Lucien Barrière

Wang Lin, Double entente (Double agreement) – Deauville Normandie Airport

As a former air stewardess now mainly focused on her photographic work, Wang Lin pursued in Deauville an identity quest which started many years ago. Among frontal, almost documentary, panoramas and conceptual and poetic staging, Wang Lin brings a new vision of the Deauville Normandy airport.

Born in 1973 in Tianjin, Wang Lin joined Hainan Airline as a stewardess in 1992, at the age of 19. Ten years later, she quit to join the Fine-Arts Academy in Beijing to study photography. She graduated in 2005 and joined Okay Airline, an occupation that allowed her, for 5 years, to combine both of her passions: flying and photography. Her documentary series on the life of stewardesses started to be exhibited and collected a lot of attention on various websites. This enthusiasm led to her dismissal by her employer and to a lawsuit that she lost.

Today, Wang Lin is entirely committed to her photographic creation. Her work is mainly autobiographic. Focused on her identity as flight attendant, Wang Lin presents herself through a series of self-portraits in imaginary settings. Her newest creations show her as a sleep-walking stewardess in an abandoned airport of Tianjin, her hometown, a metaphor of modern China, caught up by the virus of construction and renovation.

In the line of her identity and personal quest, she wishes to pursue in Deauville the work she started in Tianjin in her series « Stray tulips » by using the Deauville-Normandy airport as a shooting setting. There, between almost documentary frontal shots, and conceptual staging, she aims to combine her photographer and former stewardess sensibility and her work as an auto portraitist to create an exclusive version of the Deauville airport.

Wang Lin, Selfportrait, Rossiniere Photographic Festival, Switzerland 2013

STUDENT CONTESTS LOUIS ROEDERER FOUNDATION Schools and students’ projects

Founding principle of the Planche(s) Contact Festival, ten students coming from several European photography schools, selected according to their dossier and a recruitment interview, are welcomed to Deauville and provided with free accommodation for ten days in July. The main theme is Deauville. Their creativity, their imagination and writing abilities can make the difference for the jury and for the public.

Their work will be exhibited for the duration of the festival at the Franciscaines site and submitted to the jury, to Planche(s) contact - chaired by Bettina Rheims and including prominent personalities in photography – and, this year for the first time, to the public vote.

TWO AWARDS >The City of Deauville award is provided by the Planche(s) Contact jury. It includes a 5000 € allocation and an exhibition order for the next edition of the Planche(s) Contact festival.

>The Public award corresponds to an allocation of 3000 € and an exhibition order for the Fondation Louis Roederer in Reims.

At the end of the festival, the photographic prints join the public photographic collection of the City of Deauville.

THE JURY

Bettina Rheims, president of the Jury

Isabelle Huppert, Marin Karmitz,

Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville Serge Bramly, writer Héloïse Conesa, curator in charge of contemporary photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) in Paris Thierry Consigny, publicist Babeth Djian, managing director of Numero magazine Alain Genestar, managing director of Polka magazine Thierry Grillet, managing director of the BnF de France cultural action Didier Mouchel, former project manager in charge of photography at the pole images de Haute- Normandie Jean-Jacques Naudet, managing director of l’Oeil de la Photographie magazine

This year, Planche(s) Contact will welcome ten students coming from three different schools:

ENSP / ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, ARLES Marguerite Bornhauser Visual study: Deauville, Françoise Sagan and number 8 Anna Broujean Mini photographic fictions about Deauville, associating real images to invented texts.

LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION Carl Bigmore / Deauville in the writers’ imagination (Squared format colour images) Ryan Nell / Different glances at Deauville and its social contrasts KOS / Deauville atmospheres, at night fall Mirjam Stanke / Deauville and its beach in the view of an impressionist painter.

ECAL / ECOLE CANTONALE D’ART DE LAUSANNE Coline Amos / Types and diversity of the bathers of Deauville Jacques- Aurélien Brun / Photographic fiction inspired by a disappearance and a false police investigation in Deauville Younes Klouche / Personal glances on the touristic sites of Deauville emptied of its inhabitants Jean-Vincent Simonet / Imagined Deauville and everyday Deauville

MAÏA IZZO FOULQUIER 2014 Louis Roederer Foundation student contest laureate Les Franciscaines

MAÏA IZZO FOULQUIER Student contest laureate 2014 Les Franciscaines

Louis Roederer Foundation student contest laureate in 2014, Maïa Izzo-Foulquier will be back in Deauville this year to pursue and enhance her photographic creation, a creation depicting a personal and imaginative roving in Deauville.

Born in 1991, she graduated from Sciences Politiques before integrating the ENSP (Higher national school of photography) from which she graduated in 2014. Her work Catégorie / Sans ledemain (Category/No tomorrow), for which she was rewarded in 2014, allowed her to pursue an investigation where intimacy is confronted with the outside world. In her professional life, she assists, among others, Antoine d’Agata at the Magnum Photo agency.

She currently lives and works in Nice and Beirut.

“My project will give me the opportunity to recover a territory by investing it poetically. It will present roving as an attempt to find oneself through an intuitive exploration of an unknown place. The idea is to depict a journey, a circulation, and show various aspects of the city by playing with contrasts between the different visual ranges that build each day”.

Maïa Izzo-Foulquier

MY FAVORITE DEAUVILLE A shared wall of images in the span of the Franciscaines cloister

Mon Deauville Préféré is a shared exhibition created and fed by the visitors. Everybody is invited to bring his favourite photo of Deauville in paper or digital format (a recent photo, an old or new postcard, a picture cut from a magazine, taken from a family photo album or box…) and tack or glue it on a shared wall placed in the span of the Franciscaines cloister. A creative contribution to the festival…a huge collage created only by the visitors!

In partnership with L’Œil de la Photographie

DEAUVILLE’S 25TH HOUR PHOTO CONTEST OPEN TO ALL SLEEPING ONE MORE HOUR? OR LIVING ONE MORE HOUR?

As the third component of the Planche(s) Contact festival, the 25th hour is an annual contest aiming to capture, while wandering and observing the city at night, the transition to daylight saving time, at midnight.

For one hour during an exceptional night, from Saturday October 24th to Sunday 25th, from midnight to midnight, 200 photographers, amateur and professionals, as a couple, family, or alone, come and share their vision or imaginary perception of the“25th hour” of Deauville. SHANGHAI OR BEIJING? Olympus and the PATA France Committee, new partners of the “25th hour”, have decided to offer exceptional awards along with the budget allocated for Réponses Photo, partner of the 25th hour since its creation.

1er price: two round trip airplane tickets Paris-Shanghaï or Paris-Pékin offered by the PATA France Committee of an approximate value of 1500€ and a subscription to the Réponses Photo magazine corresponding to 39€ 2e price: an Olympus E-M10 camera with a 14-42 mm EZ lens of a value of 699€ and a subscription to the Réponses Photo magazine corresponding to 39€ 3e price: a subscription to the Réponses Photo magazine corresponding to 39€

Rules & regulations and registration: www.deauville.fr

25TH HOUR: CONTEST PROGRAM

SATURDAY OCTOBER 24TH 9.30 pm: Greeting of the participants at the Le Cercle Villa, 1 rue Jacques Le Marois Some Réponses Photo (contest sponsor) journalists and Olympus experts will be on site to share their advice with the participants about night shooting techniques. Some Olympus cameras will be available for the participants (on presentation of the identity card). Midnight: 25th hour contest beginning, the participants are free to go explore Midnight: One hour after the beginning, the photographers hand in their favourite shot to the organizers in digital format.

TH SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 10 am: Display of the contestants’ photos, captured at night 11 am: Planche(s) Contact Jury deliberation, under the chairmanship of Bettina Rheims 12 pm: Laureate announcement and award ceremony

PLANCHE(S) CONTACT OFF FESTIVAL

The Planche(s) Contact Off Festival welcomes about 15 photography exhibitions created by photographers who live for part of the year in Deauville, or by groups and associations of photography lovers. Deauville and the elements that found its identity are the main themes of this part of the festival, represented by photographers who know the city and all its aspects well. A selection committee dispenses advice and connects photographers.

SOME MORE EXHIBITIONS PROVIDING GLANCES ON OTHER ASPECTS OF DEAUVILLE TO BE DISCOVERED IN VILLAS, SHOPS, PUBLIC PLACES…

MAUROIS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: DEAUVILLE BEYOND TIME:

Performed by students attending the Year 11 of “Sciences et Laboratoire” and the Year 12 of the European class of the Maurois secondary school of Deauville, the exhibition collects some pinhole camera photos of emblematic buildings of the city, inspired by archive photographs made available to the students by the City.

Biblio’tech, Espace Flaubert Open on Monday from 2 pm to 7pm, on Wednesday from 2 pm to 5pm and on Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm.

EVELYNE BRUN: HORSE MYSTERY

Horse Mystery is a series of diptych shots captured in Deauville. Evelyne Brun explores the concept of resonance among our identity and the soul of creatures or places retaining us. As horses have the sense of tragedy, they make us experience a feeling and the opposite one.

Deauville Tourism Open from Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6pm, on Sunday and public holidays from 10 am to 1pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm.

AGNES SENECAL: DEAUVILLE, NIGHT OUTSIDE

Agnès Sénécal is pursuing his artistic project, this time through the use of colour. She proposes for this edition 2015 a photographic series entitled Deauville, Extérieur Nuit. She captures precious moments and the unusual and sometimes mysterious atmosphere the city breaths at night.

Tie Break Restaurant, Boulevard de la Mer Open from Thursday to Monday from 9 am to 7 pm, every day during school holidays. Until November 15th.

TOMEK BERGMANN : DEAUVILLE’S STORIES

Apparently performing the work of a journalist, this photograph coming from Sopot (Poland) questions and proposes a new reality originating from plastic and textual image manipulations. The result is a mysterious world, connected to the real world, but where the truth is however illusory.

Casino Galleries (entrance by the shops’ side) Open every day from 10 am to 2 am.

EMMANUEL MAHEU: LES FRANCISCAINES, EMPREINTES ET SILENCES

The Franciscaines has left here the images of an abandoned convent, marks of the past life and silences. They were there. The nuns left in a gust of wind. Emmanuel Maheu offers a poetic vision, fragmentary and intimate, of the Franciscaines buildings before their rehabilitation.

Franciscaines cloister span Open every day during school holidays, then on weekends in November, from 10.30 am to 1 pm and from 2.30 pm to 7 pm.

MICHEL TREHET: SAND ARCHITECTURES “If you are going to build something in the air (translated in French by “sand”), it is always better to build castles than houses of cards”. (G.C. Lichtenberg). Martine Tina Dassault presents Architectures de sable (Sand architectures), images by Michel Tréhet.

Roxelane Villa Open every day during school holidays, then on weekends in November, from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm.

LAURENCE GONDOUIN BOUDJEMAÏ: DEAUVILLE OR COLOURED MEMORY Pencil-coloured unique and poetic compositions are presented for this memory collection reminding childhood memories and first photographic commotions about Deauville and its venues.

Franciscaines cloister span Open every day during school holidays, then on weekends in November, from 10.30 am to 1 pm and from2.30 pm to 7 pm.

HELOÏSE ARNAULT: UNKNOWN Shooting the 2015 residence gathering the Atelier des Déchargeurs team and the awarded participants to the photo contest of the Ecole Studio Créa Paris, Héloïse Arnault wishes to reveal the unremitting lights of Deauville at winter. An aesthetic and silent portrait of the city.

Simonne L’Hermitte Atelier Open every day during school holidays, then on weekends in November, from 11 am to 7 pm. On reservation at 06 37 75 71 42.

JULIA VADEE: MINIMAL PAIR

Differently from the image of Deauville we have in mind, a touristic and often chaotic city, Julia Vadée presents a more solitary Deauville, living despite the absence. In this series, lights, contrasts and reflections are omnipresent.

Simonne L’Hermitte Atelier Open every day during school holidays, then on weekends in November, from 11 am to 7 pm. On reservation at 06 37 75 71 42

OBJECTIVE 14: FROM MIDNIGHT TO ZERO HOUR

Suspended among midnight and zero hour, the 25th hour has inspired Jean Pierre Bilhaut and André Mangion, both photographs of the group “Objective 14”. They collect, in this short time gap, the diversity of the images of a city, granting a one-hour time to all photographers who want to participate.

SNCF train station Open every day from 9 am to 7 pm

MANUEL GUYON: COEUR DE VILLE, EPISODE 2

Coeur de Ville (City heart) revisits the retailers’ photos done at the beginning of the latest century, adding some colour and a pinch of humour. It shows the hearts beating behind the shop windows of the neighbourhood stores.

Windows of the shops of Deauville Each group portrait is exposed behind the window of the participating shop.

BEATRICE AUGIER: MY BEACH

Béatrice Augier loves so much the Deauville beach that she takes photos of it almost every day. She shares this passion on her Instagram account for the happiness of the high number of “followers”, living here or very far away. Her exhibition presents 20 shots selected among thousands of photos captured at the seaside, from dawn to sunset. Lights, reflections, parasols’ multicolour shades, horses’ silhouettes: her images invite us to open the eyes.

Les Manoirs de Tourgéville Chemin de l’Orgueil, Tourgéville

PASCAL GAUNT: CROSSED GLANCES, PARIS – DEAUVILLE Pascal Gaunt lives in Paris but travels regularly to Normandy. He has chosen to use black and white argentic technique, underlining the shooting spontaneity (no reframing, no reworked photographs). Even though Deauville and Paris do not offer the same sources of photographic inspiration, each click results from the same instinctive reaction, when the light purity is the same. He took some time to stroll in both cities so that images are naturally captured.

Broomhead Junker Gallery Open from October 12th to 26th, on Friday from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm, on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm, on Monday from 10.30 am to 12.30 am. On reservation at +33 06 09 65 22 15.

AGENTS OF THE CITY: DIFFERENT FACES OF THE CITY Each portrait is captured by an agent, employed by the city. The exhibition witnesses with humour the different jobs and services offered by the City of Deauville. On the façade of the town hall

1860 > 2010 : DEAUVILLE In the eye of photographers

1860, Eugène Villette, arriving from Paris, opened the first photography studio in Deauville. He captured the city’s first portraits and immortalizes the first Deauville villas.

In 1906, Jacques-Henri Lartigue captures Deauville’s high life and events: beach scenes, car races, tennis matches, horse races, elegance contests and celebrities on holiday…

In 1919, the Seeberger brothers, “elegance photographers”, often come to Deauville, in August, at the request of fashion designers to capture the elegance of women dressed by Paul Poiret, Jean Patou, Chanel, or Madeleine Vionnet. During their stays, they enjoy yachting, horse races and polo, beach scenes, and celebrity parades.

In 1934, Roger Schall photographs Deauville for VU magazine.

In 1949, Willy Rizzo is invited to capture Deauville’s rebuilt summer, after 5 years of occupation, during the first long season of the after-war period.

In 1950, after the war, Gisèle Freund came to Deauville and created a humanist inspired series.

In 1951, Robert Capa immortalized the horse races, the Bar du Soleil and the crazy Deauville nights during a report for the American Holiday magazine.

In 1963, Robert Doisneau created an advertisement campaign for Kodak and also took the time to shoot the horse races.

The Magnum Agency photographers came to Deauville on several occasions: Leonard Freed in 1964, Bruno Barbey in 1966, Sarah Moon in 1970 and Henri Cartier- Bresson and Martine Franck in 1973.

It was between 1977 and 2009 that John Batho created his famous parasol series, in square format, on Fresson paper.

In 1980, Peter Lindbergh created, for Stern, his first reporting in Deauville.

In 1980 and 1981, Carl de Keyzer, before being revealed by Homo Sovieticus, created in Deauville his first off-beat shots.

In 1985, Dennis Stock photographed holidaymakers.

In 1991, Elliott Erwitt captured a part of his famous dog series on the Planches boardwalk.

In 1993, Fernando Scianna captured incredible portraits of couples on the beach.

In 2010, Jane Evelyn Atwood, at the request of Polka magazine, photographed wanderers during the Easter weekend.

Fashion photography has also attracted many photographers on the Deauville beach and by the beachside cabins: Georges Dambier, Jean-Loup Sieff, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh and Mario Testino.

ASSOCIATES

Over five years, the Planche(s) Contact photography festival has established itself as the main photography festival in Normandy and has integrated the top 10 of France’s photography festivals. The 2014 festival welcomed 10 000 visitors.

The Planche(s) Contact festival – an event created and organized by the city of Deauville- financing is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Regional Management of Cultural Affairs in Lower-Normandy, the Region of Lower-Normandy, the Calvados Department Council, as well as by patrons and private sponsors.

PLANCHE(S) CONTACT FOUNDING PARTNERS

THE LOUIS ROEDERER FOUNDATION has been supporting the photography exhibitions of the “Bibliothèque Nationale de France”, its research grant for several years and the Palais de Tokyo since its reopening in 2012. With Bettina Rheims, Sophie Calle, Raymond Depardon, Stephane Couturier, Richard Prince and with JR, Louis Roederer has pursued this quest for perfection echoing the foundation’s lasting commitment to its vine and wines. It was on this quest for perfection that the Louis Roederer Foundation joined the Planche(s) Contact festival, glad to assist the city of Deauville and the Planche(s) Contact Jury in the discovering the works of new talents and renowned photographers.

THE IDEC GROUP is comprised of 12 firms active in the fields of Investment, Promotion and building of housing complexes. The group is directed by Patrice LAFARGUE.

Their main activity sectors are logistics, commercial centres, residential housing as well as agribusiness, pharmaceutics, and cosmetics.

The IDEC Group employs about 300 people and has an annual gross of 200 M€.

IDEC understood very early on the values of sponsoring and patronage. These “adventures” lead to a sharing of passions between men and women developing lasting relationships with the IDEC Group. Following the IDEC Group director, the IDEC staff is proud to defend and commit its work to moments of sharing and discovery, for social engagement is of the utmost importance to the group.

THE LOWER-NORMANDY REGION Intent on promoting photography on its territory, the Lower-Normandy region has been supporting since 2013 the Planche(s) Contact festival in Deauville, which has established itself as the main photography festival in Normandy, with a mainly local audience.

MINISTERY OF CULTURE, REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS OF LOWER-NORMANDY As a decentralized service of the Ministry of Culture and Communications under prefectural authority, the Regional Management of Cultural Affairs enforces on a regional scale the government’s cultural policy. Thanks to the experience of its various services, it supports artistic creation and its broadcasting to the public. It also defends the cultural dimension of spatial planning and the preservation of archaeological, architectural and cultural heritage. The Regional Management studies the various grant applications emitted by different cultural actors and takes on a surveillance and control role. The Regional Management of Cultural Affairs has been supporting the Planche(s) Contact festival for three years. LES MANOIRS DE TOURGEVILLE This mythical hotel built in the 1970’s by Claude Lelouch has been entirely renovated and redecorated since it was bought by the Floirat group. Les Manoirs de Tourgéville is the new charming and luxurious destination of the Normandy coast. By the English Channel, Atlantic, and Mediterranean coasts, all of the Floirat establishments present the same quality values of warm welcoming, thanks to its first choice locations and a naturally friendly staff. The hotel, located in a 7 hectare tranquil and elegant park, is composed of a main building with half-timbering and 5 round-shaped Norman manors, one of which is home to the panoramic “1899” restaurant. It is in this restaurant that the Planche(s) Contact Jury members debate on the outcome of the Louis Roederer Foundation student contest.

LE MORNY’S CAFE The Morny’s Café spontaneously became the photographers’ restaurant. At noon, young students and renowned photographers share the same table. From this regular presence, a partnership was born. Initiated by Hubert and Angéline Landeau, the café’s owners at the time, Morny’s started providing food services to the photographers in residence. Jean- Claude Alaux, the café’s new owner as of June 2015, is carrying on this partnership.

During the Planche(s) Contact festival 2015, the Morny’s café will welcome its clients on an original place mat designed by a photographer of the Off Planche(s) Festival.

COMITE PATA FRANCE The association develops tourism from, to and with Pacific Asia.

has always been especially focused on the image in all its forms, mainly in the fields of science, research, health, industry and, of course, photography. The engagement of Olympus goes beyond the product itself. It means assisting and supporting on the long term all characters acting in the world of photo: mainly photographers, but also cultural institutions.

Photo and video production by Nicolas Reitzaum. Based in Honfleur, Nicolas Reitzaum is a portrait photographer, working for the main French magazines (Le Figaro, Le Point, etc.) and organizes photo training events all year long. He published two books: "La Route 66" (Route 66 - Hugo & Cie Publisher) and "Le Père- Lachaise, jardin des ombres" (The Père Lachaise, garden of shadows - Michel Lafon Publisher) together with Nathalie Rheims.

Founded in 2013, the P’tite Boîte d’Accroche is a company specialized in exhibition scenography and installation. The P’tite Boîte d’Accroche signed in 2015 the scenography and graphic design of Planche(s) Contact exhibitions.

MEDIA ASSOCIATES

ExterionMedia, leader in large format posting

A magazine created by photography lovers for photography lovers, amateurs or professionals. Réponses Photo covers all photography current events, publishes portfolios favoring independent photography, but also practical guides, tests… The magazine also releases two specials a year, in June and November, more oriented towards culture and contemporary photography.

Created in 2008 by the Genestar family, Polka magazine is a bimonthly magazine dedicated to photography and photojournalism, showing, explaining and decrypting current events. Great photographers are cited in this magazine, where they reveal the reality of the world as it is, providing tomorrow’s memory.

Independent and demanding, Polka magazine is part of a new generation of magazines that take the time to analyze and give sense to current events rather than adopt the imposed rhythm of constant, staged and celebrity oriented information. This artisan vocation is expressed through a remarkable print quality.

As an innovative media, Polka combines the magazine, a prestigious exhibition and an online community through three mediums: a bimonthly magazine, a gallery and exhibition network, and a website. The magazine is sold in every kiosk, specialized libraries, and it is also available worldwide and on iPads.

Since its creation, Numéro explores the different fields of contemporary culture, promoting experienced and younger professionals. The magazine has published works of Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Viviane Sassen, but also revealed Solve Sundsbo, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Billy Kidd, and Olivia Bee. Keeping with its wish to illustrate the spirit of the ages and discover new talents, Numéro, with its editorial director and jury member Babeth Dijan, are supporters of the Planche(s) Contact festival since its creation and will be once again this year.

L’œil de la photographie is a sponsor of « My favourite Deauville », a participative image wall set up at the Franciscaines site.

DEAUVILLE SPIRIT In 1860, the Duke de Morny imagined with his high society friends a “perfect seaside resort” and started designing it. Between sea and countryside, two hours away from Paris, Deauville was born.

Since its creation, the city is associated with horse races, polo matches, yearling sales, and attracts writers, painters, photographers, business people etc.

Under a feminine influence, Deauville imposed its own lifestyle from the beginning, very casual for the time. Fashion designers promoted and pursued this trend, followed by photographers and movie makers, whom like the outdoor and impressionist painters, drew inspiration from the sea, the light, and the atmosphere of the city.

This creative spirit embodied by Coco Chanel, the Russian ballets, Jean Cocteau, Foujita, Apollinaire, Jean Patou, Van Dongen, Colette, Georges Simenon, Joseph Kessel, and Françoise Sagan… inspires Deauville to keep an open cultural policy, favouring discovery, sharing, and learning. The city’s recent history is marked by quality cultural initiatives: the Asian Film Festival presented an entire continent from 1999 to 2014, the Easter Music Festival, which welcomes young musicians in residence since 1996; a Winter cultural season since 1997; literary meetings with the Books & Music festival created in 2004 explores each year the link between words and music.

Around buildings and leisure structures (casino, racecourses, marina, golf, hotels), Deauville evolved over 150 years, adapting to the evolution of tourism and relying on the quality of its welcoming aura. The main challenge in early years of Deauville was creating a year-round seaside city, a city that could survive beyond the summer season. In 1975, the creation of the American Film Festival was the first step of the process.

Another important step in the city’s development was the construction of the Deauville International Center (CID) which allowed in 1992 to start developing business tourism and congresses. Each year, about 150 private and public events are organized, many of which are of international range such as the American and Asian Film festivals and the Women’s Forum.

In the same spirit, Deauville has just finished the renovation of the Le Cercle Villa, a Second Empire building which can now host seminars and private gatherings, as well as the building of an equestrian complex which reinforces the city’s position as main figure of the equestrian world in Normandy.

Deauville is also leading a project of urban construction on the Touques Presqu’ île (peninsula) which will enhance its coastal façade around a lively neighborhood with activities, gathering spaces, housing and a new area for yachting activities. A few years from now, Deauville will open the Franciscaines site, an area of gathering, sharing, and cultural experimenting.

THE FRANCISCANES TAKE THE STAGE The Franciscaines site (Franciscans) bears the name of the nun congregation that created it and lived there for over a century. Among its 4000 m², an innovative project is underway: a place to join together in discovering new knowledge, and sharing cultural heritage. The visitors will be placed in a position of cultural exploring, opening onto new horizons and new cultures, at their own pace and according to their own aspirations.

This site will be strongly reminiscent of Deauville’s identity, its events and festivals. Many collections will be presented in an original manner, presenting the city’s heritage, memory, and main components such as the equestrian world, or collections of artists inspired by Deauville, such as André Hambourg whose works were bequeathed to the city in 2011, as well as a photography collection which was created with the Planche(s) Contact festival in 2010.

The Franciscaines site will have:

 The scientific demands of a museum  The entertainment of media libraries  The creativity of the artistic production  The experimental dimension of innovations