Paul Graham, Burning fields, Melmerby, North Yorkshire, september 1981
The artists selected by Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière for Paris Photo 2023 question the reciprocal relations between humans and the territory they inhabit. This appropriation of the territory by the one traversing it circles back to the figure of the photographer, a reminder of the photographic act's direct connection to reality.
Selected works from Paul Graham's A1 series are in dialogue with exceptional, large format vintage prints from Martin Parr's series The Last Resort. Thomas Klotz presents Peripheria, an exclusive project, and James Barnor closes this chapter, which highlights the tenuous link between territories and social realities.
With Guillaume Zuili, the exhibition addresses the inevitable incursion of the living into the urban space. A notion approached by FLORE with Un jardin pour Eugène D., an enclosed and singular space in the heart of Paris. Finally, Juliette Agnel's La main de l'enfant, first shown at the Rencontres d'Arles 2023 and invoking telluric forces, fixes the traces of the first civilizations.
