2023-11-19 06:31:00
The organizing association of the ImageSingulières festival is leaving Sète. At the old Le Rio cinema, this Sunday once more, a sale of prints from ten photographers invited in residence over the last fifteen years is being held.
“People are sad that it’s stopping but happy to see these images once more and, above all, to bring some home. It’s funny to see the couples hesitate and then, finally, buy a photo each” declares Valérie Laquittant, director of this beautiful photographic adventure that was the ImageSingulières documentary photography festival.
It is this weekend at the old Le Rio cinema that the last screening of CétàVOIR is taking place. Faced with a difficult financial situation, the association leaves Sète and the premises of the Documentary Photographic Center on rue Lacan, for the Cévennes: no more festival but one photographer hosted in residence (Cédric Gerbehaye in 2024) as well as a second less 36 years old. In order to generate resources, two hundred photographs are put on sale during these two days from the residencies of ten photographers: Juliana Beasley, Juan-Manuel Castro-Prieto, Richard Dumas, Gabrielle Duplantier, Cédric Gerbehaye, Stéphane Lavoué, Bertrand Meunier, Anders Petersen, Clémentine Schneidermann and Vanessa Winship. A percentage of 30% of sales will be donated to them.
Prints from €250 or books
These exhibition prints, framed, in different formats and unique are sold at affordable prices well below the normal rating of photographers: from €250 and up to €700. The most modest budgets can opt for the photographic books published at the end of each residency (Le Bec en l’air) and sold for a little more than €10.
Sadness is a feeling shared among visitors. “I didn’t know that the festival was in difficulty. I was surprised,” says Brigitte, who came as a couple. Having neither the budget nor the space to hang a large photo on the wall, the Montpellier woman leaves with six books under her arm “to support”.
Find the places they love
Returning to Sète following 15 years in Bordeaux, Jean-Philippe also acquired books from the first residences. “I saw my city evolve in these photos. The quality is very high. I would have preferred not to have a parking lot and to keep the festival!”
Others, photographed during a residency, come to share their memories, find places they love in Sète (the mole, the octopus, the beaches, the ferry terminal, the beaches, Pointe Courte…) and, sometimes, acquire a photo. Like these parents whose son was photographed by Johanna Beasley in 2010. “They are going to give him this portrait. I found it touching.”
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Le Rio, 7 quai Léopold-Suquet
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