Planches Contact festival – a unique festival of photographic creation in residence.
The American-Finnish photographer, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, was invited for a 10-day residency in Normandy as part of the Planches Contact Festival in Deauville. His objective: 5 photos for a series on “intimacy in the landscape”. A poetic intimacy in black and white to discover this fall.
Each year, Planches Contact Festival invites around twenty international photographers, both established and emerging, to work in residence in Deauville. These artists explore the whole of the Normandy region to produce original projects reflecting their singular vision of the area. The resulting exhibitions are on show in Deauville during the festival period from 18 October.
At Les Franciscaines, the Point de vue, the beach and various outdoor venues, the town is transformed into an open-air exhibition.
The festival also includes a prize for young photographers and a bursary supported by the photo4food foundation. Like the photographers chosen by the festival, the prize and the bursary will take the form of artistic residencies and exhibitions during the festival period.
Planches Contact Festival marks a turning point with the arrival of Jonas Tebib and Lionel Charrier as artistic directors. They take over from Laura Serani, who shaped the festival’s identity with rigour and passion from 2019 to 2024.
This complementary tandem combines the expertise of an art market specialist and curator who was head of photography at Sotheby’s, and a leading figure in photojournalism, currently director of photography at Libération newspaper, who founded and directed the MYOP agency and the Tbilisi Photo Festival.
Renowned for its programme of artistic residencies in Deauville, the festival showcases original projects produced in Normandy by both emerging and established photographers. Under the impetus of its new artistic director, the festival is reinventing its exhibitions and expanding its programme of events in Deauville.
To accompany this new impetus, the festival is also sporting a brand new visual identity.
Planches Contact Festival is supported by the Photographic Department of Les Franciscaines.