Author: Pierre Bessard

Lagos defies Western ideas of urban order. However, what looks like anarchic activity is actually governed by a set of informal yet ironclad rules. To a new comer to the city, these rules are an absolute mystery but in the shouting, and blaring of horns, and the pushing and shoving of crowds, everyone has a place to go and a way to get there. Robin Hammond’s ‘My Lagos’ introduces us to the color, energy and chaos of Africa’s largest city. Full bleed color photographs take us on a journey through bustling Lagos streets and into the homes of the rich, poor, and rising middle class. ‘My Lagos’ opens our eyes to an Africa rarely seen in western media. Placed over and between these views of Lagos is a series of large format Polaroid portraits accompanied by quotes from the sitters themselves. A businessman, an actor, a fisherman, a pastor, a prostitute speak of their hopes and dreams in this city of strivers. An original Nollywood film poster wraps this beautifully designed book delivering an authentic piece of the city to the audience. ‘My Lagos’ has been described as intense and bold. Much like the city itself.

POUR UN REMPLACEMENT PÉRENNE EN MATHS AU COLLÈGE CHARLEMAGNE

POUR UN REMPLACEMENT PÉRENNE EN MATHEMATIQUES AU COLLÈGE CHARLEMAGNE

Nous parents, signataires de cette pétition, souhaitons une solution pérenne pour remplacer un professeur de Mathématiques du collège Charlemagne de Paris, absent depuis la rentrée.

Malgré le signalement à de nombreuses reprises auprès du Service des remplacements du Rectorat par le Proviseur du collège Charlemagne et ses équipes,

Malgré le courrier d’alerte des représentants de parents élus du 1er octobre au Directeur de l’Académie de Paris,

Malgré la réponse immédiate du Directeur de l’Académie indiquant que ses services étaient mobilisés,

Malgré le nouvel arrêt de travail, de plus de 15 jours, de l’enseignant de mathématiques en date du 3 octobre,

cinq classes du collège Charlemagne n’ont pas eu cours de Mathématiques depuis la rentrée.

Nous souhaitons par cette pétition faire part du mécontentement de l’ensemble des parents du collège Charlemagne et demander au Rectorat de Paris, représenté par son Directeur :

– le remplacement dès la semaine du 10 octobre du professeur de Mathématiques absent,

– le rattrapage des heures de cours non effectuées depuis le début d’année scolaire,

– la nomination d’un remplaçant jusqu’à la fin de l’année scolaire 2016/2017.

En dépit de ses affirmations, le Rectorat de Paris n’a écouté ni les demandes des parents d’élèves élus, ni celles de l’Administration du collège Charlemagne. Rien n’a changé depuis le début d’année. Nous souhaitons une action concrète avant les congés de la Toussaint.

Pour les élèves de Charlemagne, mobilisez-vous et signez cette pétition !

Les parents d’élèves du Collège Charlemagne

A l’initiative de l’APPV, association indépendante, et de la FCPE Charlemagne

Ren Hang / Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund

2ditions Bessard is proud to announce that Ren Hang is the winner of the 2016 Outset / Unseen Exhibition Fund.

As part of the prize, he will present a solo exhibition at the Foam Museum in 2017.

Moritz Neu said: September has been a great month for Austrian photography: Stefanie Moshammer at Foam talents, Christiane Peschek is Honorary Mention at Braga Discovery Award and Mafalda Rakoš wins the book award. A generation of strong, professional and creative women has taken over. Congratulations!

Encontros da Imagem – International Photography Festival

In the cycle of mutability and visuality, the International Photography Festival ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM returns to contaminate the city of Braga and to whip the affective dimension up, at a time of tremendous changes and significances.

At this admirably thought-provoking moment for the human existence, populated by a turmoil of images and where the feeling for constant change and transformation proliferates, the Festival returns to its city for the 26 th Edition, celebrating the sentimental side of this edition’s theme: the Search for Happiness. After its effervescent 2015 Edition, ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM returns with an intense and kaleidoscopic programme, proposing a reflection over Happiness, in nowadays societies. Memory, Changing and Revelations are among the themes for this year’s edition, which allow us to understand the several paths towards Happiness.

Alongside with the current technological rage that questions the limits of the visible, in which the image casts us to even further away places, and where the world is revealed through its most hidden and unexpected aspects, it seemed like the appropriate moment to promote an edition dedicated to the discovery of the other, appealing to the sentimental turn and to the simple and discreet quest for Happiness, at its Place at the Sun.

Object of knowledge, interrogation and experimentation, photography is in its essence, a vital reflex of the world today and, therefore, indisputably, an incredible form of capturing the pulse of an era. The complex reality of a technological world, at the same time archaically barbarian and intensely human, offers values and dimensions that we dare to explore at this year’;s edition, in the so desired search for Happiness.

On the other hand, the feeling of the world raises awareness of our historical universe, and therefore, this edition explores the affective consciousness, harmed by the tensions and conflicts, which result from the general sharpening of social contradictions. Here, we aim to create a field of social and dynamic creation, in which artists, curators and scholars are invited to explore the theme of this sentimental turning, in its multiple interpretations, under the motto: A PLACE IN THE SUN.

Artistic Director

Ângela Ferreira