Photaumnales 2024

Tell me what you eat, what you consume, and I'll tell you who you are. This observation is at the heart of the program for the 2024 edition of Photaumnales in Beauvais, Beauvaisis and Clermont-Ferrand.

Overview

Through the work of 25 artists, this edition will show how our consumer society views the act of eating, as well as the production and presentation of food.

Nourishing our bodies, of course, but also nourishing our minds: what we eat, what we see, what we are in the living world, what we experience in our respective daily lives, and how this can influence our way of thinking. In short, food that resembles us, that brings us together, but very often also separates us, through economic issues and cultural stereotypes. We'll also look at healing foods and ancient diets, so deeply adapted to specific territories and populations that they can become veritable social and sometimes spiritual markers.

We'll also look at the links between consumption and sustainability, food and new technologies, and how the emergence of new modes of consumption can create new economies and new practices.

As part of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024 and its long-standing partnership with the Kaunas Photo Festival, Photaumnales is dedicating part of its program this year to Lithuanian heritage and contemporary photography in several of the region's towns. From Amiens to the Clermont-Ferrand area, via Berck-sur-Mer, some twenty invited Lithuanian artists will be present at various exhibitions.

For its 2024 edition, the Photaumnales festival is also programming a selection of works from the major photographic commission Radioscopie de la France: regards sur un pays traversé par la crise sanitaire, financed by the French Ministry of Culture and piloted by the BnF. This Douce France exhibition brings together nine photographers who tell the story of everyday France and its territories. The exhibition is part of a program being run throughout the Hauts-de-France region by members of the Cercle Hippolyte Bayard, who are presenting a selection of the winning works from the major commission in their respective territories.