Photo Days invites Yan Carpenter to the Sorbonne for his first solo show in France, presented in partnership with SAM Art Projects and Sorbonne Artgallery. Winner of the SAM 2024 residency, Yan is a self-taught photographer, DJ, history teacher, and former drummer, and has developed a photographic practice rooted in his daily life in the heart of the favelas where he grew up. Through his lens, he captures fragments of life—gestures, faces, suspended moments—that convey the vitality and compl… more

For her carte blanche at Sorbonne Artgallery, Fatoumata Diabaté created a series in Mali during the summer of 2024. For about sixty years, and particularly since 2010, the country has been plagued by geopolitical conflicts. With the project Nte bogo daga ye—meaning "I am not pottery" in the Bambara language —Fatoumata Diabaté pays tribute to the victims of the atrocities committed in Ogossagou, a Dogon village destroyed on March 23, 2019, where the entire population was burned alive. Armed… more

For Sorbonne Artgallery, Véronique Ellena offers a new vision of the Strasbourg Cathedral Millennium Stained Glass Window she created in 2015, transforming Sorbonne Artgallery windows into details taken from the original work.more

"I happened to start this series of images in Rwanda, but I have been thinking about the year 1994 in relation to both that country and South Africa over a period of ten or twenty years. I noticed how children, particularly in South Africa, do not carry the same historical baggage as their parents. I find their engagement with the world to be refreshing in that they are not so burdened by the past, but at the same time one witnesses them growing up with certain ‘liberation narratives’ that a… more

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