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Call for
applications
Discover the call for applications for the creative residency at the Encounters of Young International Photography 2025! This residency is a carte blanche for 6 emerging international photographers. Accompanied by the Villa Pérochon technical teams and a guest of honour - this year KOURTNEY ROY! – the young artists are invited to create and experiment in a multicultural setting that encourages exchanges.
[Call for applications]
Dates of the residency
10-28 April 2025 in Niort
Application deadline:
24 November 2024
applications
Discover the call for applications for the creative residency at the Encounters of Young International Photography 2025! This residency is a carte blanche for 6 emerging international photographers. Accompanied by the Villa Pérochon technical teams and a guest of honour - this year KOURTNEY ROY! – the young artists are invited to create and experiment in a multicultural setting that encourages exchanges.
[Call for applications]
Dates of the residency
10-28 April 2025 in Niort
Application deadline:
24 November 2024
Photography
& Science Prize
Villa Pérochon is launching the fourth edition of the Photography & Science Prize with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and ADAGP, and media partners Fisheye and Sciences et Avenir - La Recherche.
This prize is intended for a photographer living in France to complete a project combining photography and science (all disciplines), with a €6,000 grant. The winner will benefit from an exhibition at the Villa Pérochon in autumn 2025.
Call for entries until 27 October!
[See the call for entries (in French)].
& Science Prize
Villa Pérochon is launching the fourth edition of the Photography & Science Prize with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and ADAGP, and media partners Fisheye and Sciences et Avenir - La Recherche.
This prize is intended for a photographer living in France to complete a project combining photography and science (all disciplines), with a €6,000 grant. The winner will benefit from an exhibition at the Villa Pérochon in autumn 2025.
Call for entries until 27 October!
[See the call for entries (in French)].
Radioscopie
de la France
Niort-Paris, Radioscopie de la France, Grande commande photojournalisme
29 June - 21 September
See you on Saturday 29 June:
12 noon - Opening in the presence of the artists
15h - Public meeting with the photographers
In 2021, as part of the France Relance plan, and in order to support the photojournalism profession which has been particularly hard hit by the health crisis and its economic consequences, the French Minister of Culture has been asked to set up a major photographic commission entitled Radioscopie de la France: regards sur un pays traversé par la crise sanitaire. The commission, managed and coordinated by BnF, involved 200 photographers.
At the Villa Pérochon, discover a selection from this major national commission, with 7 photographers who have previously visited Niort as guests, residents or artistic advisors to the Encounters of young international photography: Alexa Brunet, Olivier Culmann, Laura Henno, Lynn S.K., Jane Evelyn Atwood, Frédéric Stucin and Stéphane Lavoué.
Tuesday to Saturday
1.30pm to 6.30pm.
Closed on public holidays.
FREE ENTRY
de la France
Niort-Paris, Radioscopie de la France, Grande commande photojournalisme
29 June - 21 September
See you on Saturday 29 June:
12 noon - Opening in the presence of the artists
15h - Public meeting with the photographers
In 2021, as part of the France Relance plan, and in order to support the photojournalism profession which has been particularly hard hit by the health crisis and its economic consequences, the French Minister of Culture has been asked to set up a major photographic commission entitled Radioscopie de la France: regards sur un pays traversé par la crise sanitaire. The commission, managed and coordinated by BnF, involved 200 photographers.
At the Villa Pérochon, discover a selection from this major national commission, with 7 photographers who have previously visited Niort as guests, residents or artistic advisors to the Encounters of young international photography: Alexa Brunet, Olivier Culmann, Laura Henno, Lynn S.K., Jane Evelyn Atwood, Frédéric Stucin and Stéphane Lavoué.
Tuesday to Saturday
1.30pm to 6.30pm.
Closed on public holidays.
FREE ENTRY