Planches Contact 2024

Planches Contact is a festival that questions and reveals a city's multiple photographic identities.

Overview

How do photographers discover, survey and restore the imaginary world of a city and its atmospheres? One of the challenges and pleasures of photography is to discover how New York is rendered to us through the eyes of Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Franck, Garry Winogrand, William Klein or Nan Goldin. Stroll the Paris of Brassaï, Willy Ronis or Martin Parr, Sergio Larrain's Valparaiso, or the streets of Tokyo with William Klein as your guide.

In its brief history, Deauville, with its multiple and complex identities, has lent itself to the game of looks and discoveries since its foundation in 1860. In turn, the Seeberger brothers, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Schall, Willy Rizzo, Robert Capa, Emeric Feher, Gisèle Freund, Henri Cartier Bresson, Magnum photographers, Robert Doisneau, Peter Lindbergh and the greatest fashion photographers have explored it with curiosity and photographed it with inspiration.

Since the creation, in 2010, of Planche(s) Contact, a festival of photographic creations in Deauville, Lise Sarfati, Charles Fréger, Massimo Vitalli, Filip Dujardin, Meffre & Marchand, Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon, Kishin Shinoyama, Lars Turnbjork, Harry Gruyaert, Philippe Ramette, ... have been invited, in the form of photographic commissions, to appropriate a part of the town, a part of Deauville.

Their Deauville-inspired photographs are kept after each festival. They form the town's photographic collection, which is enriched year after year. A singular photographic collection whose works feed into the Franciscaines' exhibitions.

For several generations of photographers, a contact sheet remains a mosaic of images, a narrative and the genesis of a photographic approach. For Deauville, Planche(s) Contact is increasingly asserting itself as a creative and festive event, providing an opportunity each autumn to share the long and passionate relationship between a town, its inhabitants and visitors, and photography.

Among this year's invited artists are Alessandro Calabrese, Bettina Pittaluga, Philip Toledano, Coco Amardeil, Sara Imloul, Patricia Morosan, Richard Pak, Huang Xiaoliang, Julien Migno and Dominique Issermann.