(Sur)viving
\nHumanity Through the Lens
\nSelected artists: Islem Haouati, Bruno Hadjih, Brooke White, Hamid Aouragh.
\nA tribute is paid to the renowned South African photographer Pierre Crocquet, who passed away in 2013.
\nAn exhibition exploring social ties, political conflicts, the struggle against the forces of nature, and humanity\u2019s search for its place on this earth\u2014not as an unwitting ruler, but in perfect symbiosis with nature. A difficult balance to strike.
\nTRIBUTE to Pierre Crocquet 1971\u20132013
\nIn Pierre Crocquet\u2019s work, people confront us and face material deprivation, exclusion, poverty, and misery; his photographs evoke empathy without pathos, as well as dignity and resilience. In post-apartheid South Africa, Pierre Crocquet gently reveals majestic portraits that reveal the subject\u2019s social status; poverty is not an abstract inevitability\u2014it is reflected in weathered, wrinkled faces, through everyday gestures, and in precarious living conditions. the depth of field is deliberate; words are superfluous; the photographer bears witness, magnifying simple lives in shades of gray and sometimes in black and white. We are exhibiting prints\u2014artist\u2019s proofs entrusted to the gallery in 2006 during his visit to Paris.
\nIslem Haouati has made the street a living, pulsating subject, day and night\u2014whether it\u2019s political demonstrations, social protests, or simply celebrations\u2014he is there to capture what makes the heart of cities beat; his black-and-white photographs set the tone, the balance is fragile, social divides are palpable, and tensions are evident\u2014but so too are street solidarity, migration, informal labor, and the inequalities that either isolate or bring people together. Islem\u2019s photography has a social dimension set against a backdrop of human relationships, in an urban setting\u2014sometimes industrial (2_People Walking, Algiers) Human survival in a hostile environment moves him\u2014as do health crises (1_Photo: Figure whose face is covered with a long black cloth); his work captures confinement and tragedy, the breaking point of a carefree era. Humanity is fragile; this fragility is revealed during ecological crises (drought, conflicts, pollution, climate change) that directly affect the most vulnerable. Man walks a tightrope; will he be able to find the balance and reason to tame not nature but his age-old impulses\u2014to have more, to go faster, farther, higher\u2014until he loses his footing, until the point of rupture?
\nIn Stephane Ellias\u2019s work, carefree spirit and lightness prevail; his benevolent gaze upon those around him imbues his photographs with the radiance of images from happier days. These candid shots capture fleeting moments\u2014the human spirit\u2019s drive to soar, to feel light, to escape, in a sense, from its own nature, playing with \u201cgravity\u201d in every sense of the word. Her camera is her paradoxical ally; the technique freezes movement, leaps, balance, and imbalance in photographic prints\u2014a duality that the artist subdues. It is his personal diary\u2014a few photos of everyday life, of a dreamlike humanity, freshly awakened over a cup of coffee. It is 2003; the Internet has been born, and one of the most delightful \u201cblogs\u201d or \u201cweblogs\u201d is none other than St\u00e9phane Ellias\u2019s \u201cjournal infime\u201d\u2014\u201cinfime\u201d on a virtual canvas. The fate of photography was about to undergo a revolution.
\nArchival photographs.
\nSelected artists: Islem Haouati, Bruno Hadjih, Brooke White, Hamid Aouragh, St\u00e9phane Ellias (archival photos), Pierre Crocquet (Tribute: archival photos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Sur)viving
\nHumanity Through the Lens
\nThe narrative thread of this summer 2026 exhibition in Arles traces the journeys of several photographers across three chapters, each exploring a different facet of the connection between humans and their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","label":[],"type_poi":[],"ville":[16],"class_list":["post-262694","evenement","type-evenement","status-publish","hentry","ville-arles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n