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Martin Parr and La Gacilly Festival

For its 22nd edition, the La Gacilly photo festival pays tribute to British photography, combining irony, rock & roll, and social insight.

June 13, 2025

Friday June 13, 2025

Summary

For its 22nd edition, the La Gacilly photo festival pays tribute to British photography, combining irony, rock & roll, and social insight. Against a backdrop of environmental commitment and openness to the world, 22 open-air exhibitions transform the Breton village into a sensory journey through territories, struggles, and imaginations.

By Jonas Cuénin

On the occasion of La Gacilly Festival, the audience was able to attend a conversation between Cyril Drouhet, director of photography at the newspaper Le Figaro and curator of the festival’s exhibitions, and the English photographers Martin Parr and Don McCullin.

By Jonas Cuénin

Inside the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, sits an exhibition that is changing our perspective on how we think about America’s early visual history. “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910” is a collection of old and early photographs, it shows a new way to look at photography’s role in shaping how Americans saw themselves, featuring both well-known artists and unknown artists.

By Itzel Robles Sandoval

This year, Mesnographies festival, nearby Paris, brings together photographers from eleven countries in a bold, socially engaged selection. At its heart is sorority explored as a force of resistance, healing, and solidarity, alongside themes linked to identity, environmental issues, and displacement.

By Gaia Squarci

As part of the Mesnographies festival, photographer Letizia Le Fur’s exhibition “L’Âge d’or” (The Golden Age) presents a world where nature takes over and the human figure moves through it like a seeker, between myth and reality.

By Gaia Squarci

Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s

Meryl Meisler revisits the start of her photography career when she moved to New York and reveled in the pleasures of the city’s decadent nightlife scene.

By Miss Rosen

In 2020, photographer Christopher Anderson released a book published by Stanley Barker. Countless wonderful photos of his daughter Pia show the intimate relationship between father and child, and a privileged one between photographer and subject.

By Jonas Cuénin

Blind financially supports the production of visual stories and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios.

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