Description
For several months, five photographers, like pearl fishers, went to the depths of archives, museums, collections, underground galleries, wastelands and forests, to find the images that tell the forgotten stories and heritages that shape our collective imaginations today.
In this way, the exhibition offers us intimate and sincere glimpses of Anjou, and celebrates 200 years of photography by reminding us that this revolutionary invention tells before it shows, brings memory to life and is, above all, a genuine artistic gesture.
The project has been awarded the "Bicentenaire de la Photographie" label by the French Ministry of Culture, and is part of its official program.
It is curated by Thierry Pelloquet for the Département de Maine-et-Loire, and Émilie Houssa for the Centre Claude Cahun pour la photographie contemporaine.
A joint initiative of the Departmental Heritage Conservation Service, the Departmental Culture Service and the Collégiale Saint-Martin, in partnership with the Centre Claude Cahun pour la photographie contemporaine, Nantes.




