Ambroise Tézenas
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EXHIBIT

La vallée
(The Valley)

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Born in France in 1972, Ambroise Tézenas lives and works in Paris. Graduating from the School of Applied Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1994, he settled in London and later in Paris, where he contributed to the French and international press.

His first monograph, Beijing, Theatre of the People (Actes Sud, 2006), took the 13th edition of the European Publishers Award for Photography. A regular contributor since 2007 to the New York Times Magazine, he is represented in France by Galerie Mélanie Rio.

EXHIBIT AT RENCONTRES

La vallée
(The Valley)

The idea behind Album de famille was to sketch a story of the day-to-day lives of residents of the Gaspé based on their photo albums. The man behind the project, Serge Allaire, curator and specialist in photography, composed a history in pictures of Gaspesian culture covering several generations in collaboration with the citizens of the regional county municipality of Avignon. Invited to participate in order to reconstruct the daily life and the photographic memory of the region, the families delivered personal archives stretching from 1900 to 2017, a mix of prints and digital images. The exhibit illustrates different aspects of day-to-day living: social rituals (from birth to death), celebrations, sports, work and professional life. A first phase of the exhibition is devoted to the object of the album itself, then to a selection of 15 to 20 pictures from among the most significant, reproduced individually and displayed with the reproduction of the album.