Discover the replay of the conferences and talks from the opening week!

THE RENCONTRES/LE POINT
STORIES OF TERRITORIES
Led by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Le Point). 
With photographers Mathieu Asselin (Here Near) and Raphaël Lods (Special Attention), and Marianne Derrien, curator of the exhibition Insolare.
What are the impacts of humans on the geography, ecosystems and landscapes they occupy? How can they be translated into pictures? When photographers capture traces of the Anthropocene era.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHOTOGRAPHY: WHAT STAKES FOR THE AUTHORS?
Led by Marie-Anne Ferry-Fall, director of the ADAGP.
With Valérie-Laure Benabou, professor in private law at Paris-Saclay University, photographer Tan Chui Mui (Just because you pressed the shutter?), Nicolas Giraud, artist, photographer and art theoretician, and Fred Ritchin, distinguished dean at the school of the International Center of Photography (ICP) and author. 
Wonderful creation tool for some, an open door to plagiarism for others, Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupts artistic practices and questions our relation to the artwork and image. Particularly impacted by the development of generative AI (such as Midjourney or DALL-E), photographers must face these new challenges. New means of creation, unfair competition, remuneration and consent, transparency of technological systems…: which consequences for photographers, their rights and their practice?
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THE EYES TALKS
PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISM AND SOCIETY
Led by Véronique Prugnaud, associate director of The Eyes.
With Nina Strand, curator of the exhibition Søsterskap, photographer Nicole Gravier (Myths and Clichés), and photographers Riti Sengupta (Things I can’t say out loud) and Nieves Mingueza (One in Three Women), nominated for the 2023 Discovery Award Louis Roederer Foundation.
Conceived and led by The Eyes.
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THE EYES TALKS
PHOTOGRAPHY: A BATTLE LINE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTLed by Vincent Marcilhacy, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographers Eva Nielsen (Insolare), Juliette Agnel (The Child’s hand), and Roberto Huarcaya (Traces).
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LES RENCONTRES/LE POINT
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY TURNS INTO MOVIES
led by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Le Point).
With Jean-Charles Vergne, curator of the exhibition Eveningside – 2012-2022, Aurélien Froment (Zucca/Froment, Optical Theater), and Matthieu Orléan, curator of the exhibition Scrapbooks.
“Photography is truth, and cinema is twenty-four times the truth per second,” said Godard. A postulate to be verified through Agnès Varda’s contact sheets,
Wim Wenders’ Polaroid, Gregory Crewdson’s images of films that don’t exist, and the scrapbooks of various filmmakers... cinéastes…
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LIBÉ’S GLANCE, PHOTO AND EDITING ON A DAILY BASIS
Round table led by Lionel Charrier, head of Libération’s Photo Department.
With Nadja Demouly, photo editor, and photographers Claudine Doury and Cyril Zannettacci.
A discussion on the evolution of the image professions in a daily newspaper.
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LES RENCONTRES/LE POINT
VISIONS AND DISAPPEARANCES
Led by Baudouin Eschapasse (Le Point).
With photographer Oleñka Carrasco (Patria), and photographers Vishal Kumaraswamy (ಮರಣ Marana [Demise]) and Soumya Sankar Bose (A Discreet Exit through the Darkness) nominated for the 2023 Discovery Award Louis Roederer Foundation.
What resources does photography offer dealing with death? What role does the eye play in the grieving process? How do we emerge from the darkness of grief by capturing traces of light? Three artists share with us the steps they have taken on the road to reconstruction, telling us how their work has embraced the unspeakable.
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LES RENCONTRES/LE POINT
SPIRIT OF PLACES
led by Baudouin Eschapasse (Le Point).
With photographers Hannah Darabi (Soleil of Persian Square) and Iris Millot (Special Attention), and Sogol & Joubeen Studio, curators of the exhibition Between our walls.
Can photography capture the ghosts that haunt a space? Sogol & Joubeen Studio’s work on a house in Tehran that no longer exists, and Hannah Darabi’s photographs of the Iranian neighborhood of Los Angeles, are all about tracking down specters. Like Iris Millot, who gathers clues and traces to reconstruct the story of her great-aunt by exploring the places she lives in.
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PHOTOGRAPHY IN GUYANA AND OTHER OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
Round table led by Nathalie Gonthier, in charge of visual arts for DRAC Guadeloupe.
With curator Eline Gourgues, Emilie Houssa, co-director of the Claude Cahun Center, photographers Nicolas Derné and Karen Paulina Biswell, and Karl Joseph, director of the Guyana/ Amazon House of Photography.
A Réseau Diagonal proposal.
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PUBLIC COMMISSION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Round table led by Pierre Ciot from SAIF.
With Laurence Engel, president of the BNF, Fannie Escoulen, head of the Department of Photography at the Ministry of Culture, Marc Vaudey, Director of the creation department at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and two photographers who won the BNF commission,
Julien Goldstein and Yohanne Lamoulère.
The French authors’ society SAIF proposes to take stock of the state of public commissioning in photography after the major photographic commission “Radioscopy of France: glimpses of a country affected by the health crisis” entrusted by the Ministry of Culture to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2021. What are the prospects for the next few years?
A SAIF – Société des Auteurs des arts Visuels et de l’Image Fixe proposal.
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LES RENCONTRES/LE POINT
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY RECOVERS MEMORY
led by Baudouin Eschapasse (Le Point). With curators Ilsen About (Light of Saints), Jean-Marie Donat (Don’t forget me), and Carole Sandrin (Agnès Varda.
La Pointe Courte, from photographs to films).
How can we write the Mediterranean basin’s history, away from “clichés”? What similarities can be discerned between the images in the photographic collection of Studio Rex in Marseille, the work of Agnès Varda and the collections of photographs that make up the corpus of the exhibition devoted to gypsy culture?
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TELLING STORIES, PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE CROSSROADS OF DISCIPLINES
Talk led by Sophie Flouquet, deputy editor-in-chief of Beaux Arts Magazine.
With photographer Spencer Ostrander (Bloodbath Nation), film photographer Christophe Brachet and photographer Paul Rousteau.
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THE EYES TALKS
EXPERIMENTING, TRANSFORMING AND MANIPULATING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM
Talks led by Véronique Prugnaud, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographer Maciejka Art (Hoja Santa [Holy Leaf ]), Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, curator of the exhibition The Splendor of the Artisan, and Damarice Amao, curator of the exhibition Myths and Clichés.
Conceived and led by The Eyes.
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TRANSCRIBING SENSITIVITY
Panel discussion led by Emilia Genuardi, photography adviser, and Stéphane Amiel, music adviser.
With Edouard Taufenbach and Régis Campo, winners 2020-2021 of the Swiss Life à 4 mains Award, photographer Bastien Pourtout, and photographer Céline Clanet (Ground Noise), with Nathalie Martin, General Delegate of the Swiss Life Foundation in attendance.
A Swiss Life Foundation proposal, on the occasion of the launch of the 6th edition of the Swiss Life à 4 mains Award 2024-2025.
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THE EYES TALKS
REMINISCENCES AND REAPPROPRIATION, MEMORIAL APPROACHES TO SERVE THE PRESENT
Led by Vincent Marcilhacy, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographers Oleñka Carrasco (Patria), Rosângela Rennó (On the ruins of photography), and Isabelle Bonnet, curator of the exhibition Casa Susanna.
Conceived and led by The Eyes.
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