PHOTOMED 2013
Mediterranean Photography Festival
From May 23rd to June 16th
At Sanary-sur-Mer (South of France)
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| Valencia, Spain, 1998 © Gabriele Basilico |
Over the years, Photomed has made a name for itself as a festival for discovery or rediscovery. It also provides us with the opportunity to pay homage to the great names of Mediterranean photography such as Gabriele Basilico, Nino Migliori or Fouad Elkoury. At the espace St Nazaire in Sanary-sur-Mer, nascent Lebanese photography, under the expert eye of Curator Tony Hage, rubs shoulders with the powerful and evocative works of Julia Pirotte. This photojournalist of Polish origin, whose archives are housed at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi has produced some exceptional images of the liberation of Marseilles. Prefaced by Bernard Plossu, this exhibition represents one of the compelling moments of the festival, as does the presentation of the work of Nino Migliori proposed by Alessandra Mauro or even the as yet unseen photographs of the great film director Costa-Gavras. Nino Migliori is part of the tradition of Italian neo-realism but stands apart through his constant research and experimentation. As for Costa Gavras, his formidable portraits of Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Allende, Régis Debray, Jorge Semprun... reflections of his friendship and his militancy, are to be discovered both at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and at Photomed....
On the Island of Bendor, the Patmos and Mykonos rooms house the work of two Greek photographers: Katerina Kaloudi, who provides us with an unexpected vision of today’s Greece, and Stratis Vogiatzis, who describes the life of the fishermen of the Mediterranean using disturbing and powerful images. In collaboration with Ljubljana’s Galerija Fotografija the exhibition ”Aspects of Slovenian photography” shows the work of two generations of photographers (salle Flotte) with, as a counterpoint, images from Bruno Rufi at at the Sanary médiathèque.
After last year’s revelation of the Sanary mermaid by Joan Fontcuberta, it is the turn of Didier Massard to entice us 20,000 leagues under the sea, to discover flooded cities and dreamlike landscapes (salle Maurice Fargues).
In Bandol, the photographer and film director Daoud Aoulad-Syad, acclaimed by the public in 2012, returns with a commission placed by Photomed covering the region’s winemakers. This novel Pantheon adjoins the architecture of Marseilles’ Jacques Filiu. On the port, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain have us buzzing for the bygone Dolce Vita, with their outsized portraits of Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Liz Taylor... printed on canvas. This exhibition is rounded off in the salle Flotte at Sanary, by less well-known and at times unpublished images taken from the archives of these two famous and likeable paparazzi.
In the chapelle de la Pitié, the Israeli photographer Gali Tibbon accompanies the cortège of pilgrims who come from all over the world and from all religions to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, birthplace of Christianity.
But the Mediterranean also lives on through the eyes of the great photographers of the past. Guy Mandery has opened up his collection of “vintage” photos for us, where we can find the work of Hoyningen-Huene, side by side with that of Boubat, Giacomelli and all those wandering photographers who have roamed the Mediterranean Basin, including Guy Mandery himself. This historian and critic will exhibit his images taken during his travels and sojourns in Greece, Sicily and Tunisia, in the salle Barthélémy de Don.
In the Atelier des Artistes, Fouad Elkoury has compiled photographs of the Lebanon of his birth, a subtle symphony of internal and spiritual landscapes. In reply to Fouad Elkoury’s Beirut is the work of Gabriele Basilico who chose Toulon’s Hôtel des Arts to display nine Mediterranean cities in which, at different stages of his life, he produced both precise and poetic photographic references. Barcelona, Beirut, Genoa, Istanbul, Monaco, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Valencia are thus the cornerstones of a production that has become emblematic in contemporary photographic history. We therefore wish to dedicate the 3rd edition of the Mediterranean Photography Festival to this great photographer who passed away so recently.
On the Island of Bendor, the Patmos and Mykonos rooms house the work of two Greek photographers: Katerina Kaloudi, who provides us with an unexpected vision of today’s Greece, and Stratis Vogiatzis, who describes the life of the fishermen of the Mediterranean using disturbing and powerful images. In collaboration with Ljubljana’s Galerija Fotografija the exhibition ”Aspects of Slovenian photography” shows the work of two generations of photographers (salle Flotte) with, as a counterpoint, images from Bruno Rufi at at the Sanary médiathèque.
After last year’s revelation of the Sanary mermaid by Joan Fontcuberta, it is the turn of Didier Massard to entice us 20,000 leagues under the sea, to discover flooded cities and dreamlike landscapes (salle Maurice Fargues).
In Bandol, the photographer and film director Daoud Aoulad-Syad, acclaimed by the public in 2012, returns with a commission placed by Photomed covering the region’s winemakers. This novel Pantheon adjoins the architecture of Marseilles’ Jacques Filiu. On the port, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain have us buzzing for the bygone Dolce Vita, with their outsized portraits of Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Liz Taylor... printed on canvas. This exhibition is rounded off in the salle Flotte at Sanary, by less well-known and at times unpublished images taken from the archives of these two famous and likeable paparazzi.
In the chapelle de la Pitié, the Israeli photographer Gali Tibbon accompanies the cortège of pilgrims who come from all over the world and from all religions to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, birthplace of Christianity.
But the Mediterranean also lives on through the eyes of the great photographers of the past. Guy Mandery has opened up his collection of “vintage” photos for us, where we can find the work of Hoyningen-Huene, side by side with that of Boubat, Giacomelli and all those wandering photographers who have roamed the Mediterranean Basin, including Guy Mandery himself. This historian and critic will exhibit his images taken during his travels and sojourns in Greece, Sicily and Tunisia, in the salle Barthélémy de Don.
In the Atelier des Artistes, Fouad Elkoury has compiled photographs of the Lebanon of his birth, a subtle symphony of internal and spiritual landscapes. In reply to Fouad Elkoury’s Beirut is the work of Gabriele Basilico who chose Toulon’s Hôtel des Arts to display nine Mediterranean cities in which, at different stages of his life, he produced both precise and poetic photographic references. Barcelona, Beirut, Genoa, Istanbul, Monaco, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Valencia are thus the cornerstones of a production that has become emblematic in contemporary photographic history. We therefore wish to dedicate the 3rd edition of the Mediterranean Photography Festival to this great photographer who passed away so recently.
Jean-Luc Monterosso
Photomed Artistic Director
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