The Photo Festival La Gacilly is now in its thirteenth edition and is an extraordinary demonstration of how photography can be a powerful flywheel in the interests of the local economy. «How can a village speak to the rest of the world? How can a village of 2,200 inhabitants accommodate more than 300,000 visitors every year?» These are the questions that you can not help but ask yourself when arriving in La Gacilly, as rightly pointed out Jacques Rocher, founder of the festival as well as mayor of the Brittany town provides the answers himself. To determine the success of the event there is the contribution of «the editorial line, the quality of the works presented, the harmony between the photographs and the landscape, the possibility of allowing access for all to culture».
In fact when you arrive at La Gacillly the first thing that strikes you is its integration between the device of the exhibition setting of the photographic works and the environment. Photographs of considerable dimension pervade the traditional looking old houses, the bridge, and the walks along the waterside, the gardens and the streets, when they are not huge. All in all it looks like an absolutely harmonious cultural landscape, where it is surprising to note that the giant blow-ups of Fujiyama can coexist with a traditional Breton landscape.
A huge organizational effort, which allows the event to remain open for three months, which as experience has shown requires an on-going commitment for the rest of the year. The quality of the prints are also very impressive, given the type of materials needed to be used to allow the images to be exposed to good and bad weather for three months without problems. Finally, it should be emphasized the effort made each year to bring authors of absolute international relevance to La Gacilly, producing in entirety the exhibitions (we are talking about 600 images for the edition 2016) and ensuring free admission to the public. The only request made by the organisers is to buy maps of the exhibitions and / or catalogues (which cost just € 19,00) to support the event. It definitely does not seem much considering that these purchases are not mandatory.
The 2016 edition of the Photo Festival La Gacilly is organised around the theme Les Océeans (The Oceans), while the country, which has been invited is Japan, to which is dedicated a wide selection of images. A third section, Enjeux Environnementaux, is dedicated to environmental issues. Below is a list of exhibitions and the places where they are shown.
PHOTOGRAPHIE JAPONAISE
• Les derniers samouraïs, premières photographies et La route du Thé, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet - Passerelle
• Jadis le Japon, regards figés par l’Occident, Musée de l'Université de Tokyo& de Lyon - Jardin de la Passerelle
• Sumos by Motoki - Jardin de la Passerelle
• La mutation d'un Empire by Takeyoshi Tanuma - Rue Saint Vincent
• En comptant les grains de sable… by Hiromi Tsuchida - Jardin de la Passerelle
• Le Mont Fuji by Yukio Ohyama - Place de la Ferronerie
• Recommencer – Au-delà du Fukushima by Kazuma Obara - Jardin du Relais Postal
• Fukushima au daguerréotype by Takashi Arai - Jardin du Relais Postal
• Et, où les paons sont-ils allés? by Miho Kajioka - Jardin du Relais Postal
• Eclats by Kiiro - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Issan by Eriko Koga - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Source by Lucylle Reyboz - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Issan by Eriko Koga - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Les Perroquets de Tokyo by Yoshinori Mizutani - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Villes – Diorama Cities by Sohei Nishino - Labyrinthe Végetal
• Un Regard poétique by Shoji Ueda - Grand Chêne
LES OCÉANS
• Sous les glaces, s’éteignent les espèces by Paul Nicklen - Bout du Pont
• Pollutions et marées noires by Daniel Beltrá - Jardin de Marais
• Un plaidoyer contre la surpêche by Pierre Gleizes - Jardin de Marais
• Sur le rivage d’une île en sursis by Daesung Lee - Chemin de Libbelules
• Supertankers : les forçats du Bangladesh by Shiho Fukada - Chemin de Libbelules
• Mers d'exil by Olivier Jobard - Prairie
• Morbihan, des îles en hiver by Guillame Herbaut - Garage
• La dame de la mer by Anita Conti - Garage La dame de la mer
• Le socle des choses by Benjamin Deroche & François Spricigo - Jardin de la Passerelle
• Les Océans - La Photographie Émergente: Les contrées nordiques by Anna Filipova | Les murs de l’Atlantique by Julie Hascoët | La jungle de Calais by Quentin Bruno- Chemin de Libbelules
• Collectif Image sans Frontière - Port
• Du Morbihan by Les Collégiens du Morbihan - Halles
ENJEUX ENVIRONNEMENTAUX
• Madagascar, l’île où le baobab est roi by Pascal Maitre - Rue Lafayette
• Dans la fournaise du Sertao by Lianne Milton - Maison de la Photographie
The exhibitions, apart from two, are open and can be visited without a ticket until September, 30th 2016.
Photo Festival La Gacilly
various venues - La Gacilly (France)
4 June – 30 September 2016
opening times: varied, depending on the venue (for indoor exhibitions only)
admission fee: free entrance
info: contact@festivalphoto-lagacilly.com
www.festivalphoto-lagacilly.com
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published on 2016-08-13 in NEWS / EVENTS
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