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June 2, 2025

PASSAGES – Theme of the 16th edition

Exploring the passage of time, the traces left by encounters, friendship, forgetfulness, and absence.  Between memory and motion, this theme questions our relationship to objects, places, others — and fleeting moments.  PASSAGES is the transition between what was and what is...

Beneath the Ashes, by Charles-Frédérick Ouellet presented at the Carleton-sur-Mer International Journalism Festival

May 7, 2025

Beneath the Ashes, by Charles-Frédérick Ouellet presented at the Carleton-sur-Mer International Journalism Festival

In collaboration with our partner, the Vaste et Vague artist centre, the exhibition Beneath the Ashes by Charles-Frédérick Ouellet will be presented from May 15 to 18, as part of the Carleton-sur-Mer International Journalism Festival. The festival aims to address...

Les Rencontres invited to Japan’s FOTOZOFIO Festival

April 30, 2025

Les Rencontres invited to Japan’s FOTOZOFIO Festival

From April 9 to 20, our director Claude Goulet and photographer Serge Clément explored Japanese photography at the invitation of the FOTOZOFIO Festival in Japan, strengthening cooperation between Quebec and Japan in the creation and dissemination of photography. This cultural...

Photography Mission in the Lower St. Lawrence: Clara Lacasse selected

October 14, 2024

Photography Mission in the Lower St. Lawrence: Clara Lacasse selected

The artist proposes an exploration of the imaginary and of the region’s built religious heritage Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, in collaboration with the Espaces F center in Matane and thanks to the financial participation of Loto-Québec, announces the...

Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie benefits from CALQ financial assistance in support of its mission

September 16, 2024

Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie benefits from CALQ financial assistance in support of its mission

The management of Rencontres de la photographie is proud to announce that further to an application submitted to the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec at the start of the current year, the organization has been awarded a...

Transcending the commonplace, the theme of our 15th edition

May 24, 2024

Transcending the commonplace, the theme of our 15th edition

The ordinary, the common, the insignificant – there’s nothing more authentic and more rooted in our day-to-day lives. Often with minimal staging, photographers frame a dull moment, a bland gesture, a nondescript landscape. With their way of seeing, with...

Launch of 2 videos: interviews with Dolorès Marat (France) and Sarah Boutin (Québec)

September 11, 2023

Launch of 2 videos: interviews with Dolorès Marat (France) and Sarah Boutin (Québec)

Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is releasing two videos featuring exclusive interviews with artists exhibiting at this 14th edition of the event: Dolorès Marat (France), who is presenting Heureux hasard (Lucky Accident) at Musée de la Gaspésie in...

Chieko Shiraishi (Japan), Lara Gasparotto (Belgium), Marine Lécuyer (France) and and Maude Arsenault (Québec) doing creation residencies in the Gaspé Peninsula

August 24, 2023

Chieko Shiraishi (Japan), Lara Gasparotto (Belgium), Marine Lécuyer (France) and and Maude Arsenault (Québec) doing creation residencies in the Gaspé Peninsula

Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is hosting Japan’s Chieko Shiraishi, Belgium’s Lara Gasparotto, France’s Marine Lécuyer and Montreal’s Maude Arsenault for creation residencies from late August to mid-September 2023. These four artists will be crisscrossing the region in...

Vue d'exposition d'Ilaria Abbiento à Percé

Rencontres on Tour, from August 17 to 20, 2023

August 1, 2023

Rencontres on Tour, from August 17 to 20, 2023

Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie will be welcoming the artists from the 14th edition of the event for Rencontres on Tour, from August 17 to 20, 2023. This unique event, which brings the public and artists together, offers...

On the moose’s potentially fatal unpredictability: theme of the 14th edition

June 6, 2023

On the moose’s potentially fatal unpredictability: theme of the 14th edition

At the invitation of Rencontres and Diaphane (France), the French author Patrice Juiff undertook a creation residency in the Gaspé Peninsula in the autumn of 2022. The text that resulted from that, entitled On the moose’s potentially fatal unpredictability,...