[spectre] Fwd: France : call for residency - young photographers

[saij netart]

Von: saij netart <info at saij-netart.net>
Datum: 3. März 2010 19:10:51 GMT+01:00
An: spectre at mikrolisten.de
Betreff: France : call for residency - young photographers -

Hi,

I was asked to post this call internationally.
Please find it below.
Sorry for any cross posting!

Best regards.

Isabel Saij



The Residency : from 27 August to 11 September 2010

Niort, France, a town of 60,000 inhabitants, has 
been the setting for this residency since the 
very beginning of  the annual Rencontres de la 
Jeune Photographie Internationale. The eight 
selected residents will be accompanied 
throughout their stay by Christian Caujolle, 
co-founder of the Agence VU, and will be given 
full technical support  from the team of the 
association Pour l'Instant. A technical centre, 
fully equipped to professional standards, 
including a black and white darkroom and a 
digital workshop is reserved for their exclusive 
use. In this context,  the young artists are 
invited to create and experiment. They have total 
carte blanche to work as they wish,  stimulated 
by their encounters, exchanges and the diverse 
approaches of other participants. This amounts to 
a  truly unique artistic experience.

Conditions of the residency :
Expenses fully covered during the residency 
include:  All supplies required for creation, 
accommodation,  breakfast and evening meal from 
27 August  to 11 September 2010.   During the 
residency, the selected artists must produce an 
exhibition. Created works will be exhibited at 
the end  of the stay until 24 October, and will 
then be added to the collection of works 
constituted over the years by the  association. 
All negatives and original digital files remain 
the property of the author.

Application :
Candidates must send the completed application 
form, together with a CV, a text describing their 
artistic  approach and a representative selection 
of recent work. The description of a project 
envisaged for this residency  can be added to the 
application, but is not obligatory.   - Print 
submissions (traditional or digital) can be of 
any format and quantity. - For digital 
submissions (on CD or DVD only), image files must 
be in low resolution, Mac/PC compatible format, 
without requiring any downloading.  Web sites 
cannot be considered as part of a candidate's 
application. Applications are to be sent to: 
Association ´Pour l'Instantª, 7 avenue de 
Limoges, 79000 Niort, France; 
pourlinstant at wanadoo.fr
The date limit for reception of applications is 5 May 2010.
The work submitted by the selected candidates 
will be exhibited from 25 June to 9 September. 
Selected  candidates must agree to ensure that 
works for this exhibition arrive at the address 
of Pour L'Instant in Niort  by 10 June 
(transportation costs will be reimbursed by the 
organisers during the residency upon presentation 
of invoices).  Only those applications that 
include sufficient stamped, self-addressed 
packaging can be returned.

Jury :
Presided over by Christian Caujolle, the jury 
will be composed of leading figures in 
photography and art,  together with members of 
the association. They will meet 8 May and will 
select the eight successful candidates,  who will 
be informed by telephone or email. The result 
will also be announced on the website of the 
association:   www.pourlinstant.com

Having studied under Michel Foucault, Roland 
Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu, Christian Caujolle, 
from 1979 on,  wrote regularly on photography in 
the Culture pages of the French daily newspaper 
´Libe?rationª. In 1981,  while continuing this 
activity, he became the paper's Editor of 
Photography. He created the Agence VU, ´the 
photographers' agencyª, in 1986, and twelve years 
later, the gallery of the same name. Since 2007, 
he has  been teaching at the higher national 
school, Louis Lumière, as well as in other art 
schools and various foreign  establishments, 
while continuing to write and to organise 
exhibitions and festivals.  A member of numerous 
international juries, including World Press 
Photo, he has published many books (mostly for 
Actes Sud Editions)  including works by and on 
Lartigue, Salgado, Depardon, William Klein, 
Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen,  Cristina 
Garcia Rodero, Isabel Muñoz, Peter Beard, and 
Bernard Faucon.  -Artistic Director of the 
Rencontres d'Arles in 1997, he created Photo 
Phnom Penh in 2008, the annual festival in 
Cambodia, and for the fiftieth anniversary of 
Word Press Photo, organised the major exhibition 
´Things as They  Areª, for which the catalogue 
(Chris Boot Publisher) won praise throughout the 
world.