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About two hundred students visit our exhibits

September 21, 2016

About two hundred students visit our exhibits

Thanks to a partnership between Rencontres and René-Lévesque school board, thirteen student groups from Baie-des-Chaleurs will be taking guided tours of exhibits between September 20 and 30 as part of the program “La culture à l’école” (Culture in Schools). Coming from...

7th edition: extension or second life for certain exhibits

September 20, 2016

7th edition: extension or second life for certain exhibits

There are only about 10 days left in this 7th edition of Rencontres. While most exhibits and installations close on October 3, certain ones will be taken down earlier out of respect for our partners’ schedules. Some will return...

Portfolio assessments: an activity involving discussions of your photo work!

August 3, 2016

Portfolio assessments: an activity involving discussions of your photo work!

In light of the success at the 2015 edition, Rencontres is organizing a session of portfolio assessments by photography professionals as part of the Photographer Tour. Portfolio assessments are intended for people interested in submitting their pictures to personalities connected...

“LE LIVRE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE”: BACK THIS YEAR

July 28, 2016

“LE LIVRE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE”: BACK THIS YEAR

Rencontres is proud to be integrating a component dedicated to the photographic book in its programming for a second consecutive year. The exhibition The Photographic Book, for which art historian and critic Serge Allaire is acting as curator, will...

“Tracadièche ARCADE” project: call for participants

July 12, 2016

“Tracadièche ARCADE” project: call for participants

Rencontres invite Gaspesian artists, along with people from the Gaspé community who are both creative and committed, to join Montreal artists Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard of 2boys.tv and Shauna Janssen on a one-week exploration focusing on the sites,...

RESIDENCY OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS HAMELIN: landscape testimonies wanted!

June 24, 2016

RESIDENCY OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS HAMELIN: landscape testimonies wanted!

Jean-François Hamelin is currently doing a creative residency in the Gaspé that involves the first photo assignment on the contemporary Québec landscape. Fluctuating between photographic subjectivity and the documentary, his work is anchored in the geography of places. Journeys,...

“PETITE-VALLÉE”: the first exhibit is up!

June 22, 2016

“PETITE-VALLÉE”: the first exhibit is up!

With the approach of the launch of the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée, an event that will run from June 30 to July 9, 2016, Rencontres has hastened to install the exhibit by French artist Claudia Imbert. Entitled “Petite-Vallée,”...

THE GASPÉ–PICARDY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY : Creative residencies under way

June 2, 2016

THE GASPÉ–PICARDY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY : Creative residencies under way

In the framework of the Franco-Québec cooperation project The Gaspé–Picardy for Photography, Rencontres is hosting French photographer Ambroise Tézenas for a creative residency from June 3 to 13, 2016. The artist intends working in the southwestern part of the Gaspé...

“THE IMAGE IN MOTION”: 7th edition of Rencontres de la photo

May 30, 2016

“THE IMAGE IN MOTION”: 7th edition of Rencontres de la photo

The 7th edition of Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie will run from mid-July to early October 2016, on the theme “The image in motion.” Exhibitions and installations showing the work of about 30 artists from Québec and different countries...

CONTEMPORARY GASPESIAN LANDSCAPE Photographic assignments coming soon to the Gaspé

May 19, 2016

CONTEMPORARY GASPESIAN LANDSCAPE Photographic assignments coming soon to the Gaspé

Further to the call for projects that Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie sent out to professional photographers this past February, Montreal artists Jean-François Hamelin and Sara A. Tremblay have been selected to carry out a photo assignment on...