PhotographersNetwork

Membership

About

Search

88 out of 88 results

Celestial Mechanics

This is the story of Jacques and Marion Granges, a couple of farmers and growers. They farm their land with biodynamic agriculture that relies on two pillars. The first is the use of vegetable, mineral substances and animal that stimulate growth, the second is the use of forces, cosmic cycles and special attention to the lunar cycles and the influence of stars and rhythm of nature. Detached from the plain and civilization but not without being disconnected, they observe distant agitation the world and maintain their land as their greatest asset.
In Celestial mechanics, I suggest a look at this mysterious planet where nature finds the power over man. The two magicians have not only been able to link science and conscience but also revive the lost slowness of our society, whether this slowness makes up the rhythm of life, in the wind, in the shadow of night, a new temporality beyond the passing of time over all that lives, naturally.

Petite robe de fête

Here it’s about childhood, countryside, looks, expectations but also melancholy. A series of young girls portraits made in Transylvania, half-way between the documentary and poetry, under the shape of a visual tale which has childhood and the fragility of this precious time as a main theme. These portraits mix with the pictures of the traditional universe in which these young girls live and make us discover a different vision of a painfully marked Romania, moving forward in the present, while living in the shadow of its history like an adult taking his first steps outside childhood. In a hide and seek game between shadow and light, “Petite robe de fête” launches the ball of these unique and fleeting moments of grace which are bound to disappear.

Bois des Frères (Brotherswood)

This story begins in the sixties, in Geneva’s suburb, when it was necessary to accommodate hundreds of Italian workers came to build the towers of Lignon (largest european building), twelve barracks were then appointed as a temporary solution to host seasonal workers. It should not last, however, these cabins still exist today and still host men whose origins are not only Italy but across Europe and Africa.
Photographed in natural light, the series « Bois des Frères » (Brotherswood) reveals this « out of time » place in Geneva usually known for its financial center and worldwide center for diplomacy and in this way unveils a usually unseen reality. Portraits of men, still lifes and landscapes gives us a precise and genuine image of the barracks and the surrounding environment: their proximity to the Rhone river gives the place a rural feel, whilst their their privacy is confined in their 10m2 rooms. The series includes also some drawing plans made by the habitants of the rooms and inviting the viewer to discover how each of them represent its 10m2 mentally and singular way.
« Bois des Frères » illustrate also people’s infinite capacity to adapt to their marginalized status and even find a place.

Montagne Show

Mountain show

Fascinated for several years by the teenage years, I wanted to get closer to young people living in mountain regions, more specifically in Valais, in the Val de Bagnes. I went out to meet young people in villages that I visited on foot or by bus: from Bruson to Champsec, via Le Châble and Verbier.

Chatting with them about their relationship with the mountains, their experiences, their relationship with the valley, their dreams, their own future and that of their region. Accompanied by their words in my reflections and my wanderings in situ, I felt the mountain as a real character emerging in each of their stories to deliver a series composed not only of photos but also of collected testimonies.

The presence of these young lives, combined with landscapes and architecture, punctuate a visual narrative that questions the historical relationship between Alpine culture and “natural” territory.

Shot in the heart of a changing mountain landscape that mirrors the times they live in, the “Montagne show” series sketches out a certain view, my own, of these young people surrounded by postcard landscapes, dreaming of an elsewhere or wishing to stay there “all their lives”.

Can we reduce these personalities, their affinities, their desires and their hopes to the place where they grew up, where they live? It’s up to my camera to freeze the scenery and spectacle of their mountain youth, in their minds or on their bodies, etched forever. May the Focale audience in turn be drawn into this narrative and discover the “Montagne show”.

Delphine Schacher

Born in Nyon in 1981 and graduated from the Vevey School of Photography in 2014, Delphine Schacher’s work explores social and human realities and difficulties, questions the place of man in his geographical, historical and social environment.
In 2013, she won the SFR Young Talents prize as well as the VFG Young Talents prize with her series “Petite robe de fête”. In 2014, she produced “Celestial Mechanics” as part of the Valais photographic survey. Recipient of a grant from the PRN Lives (national research center), she produced the series “Bois des Frères”, nominated in the final of the Swiss Photo Awards in 2016. The following years she produced the series “Yangon Autels” during a year with family in Burma, then “Journal devigilance” during confinement, a dialogue between the words of the press and photographs of his daily life. In 2021 and 2023, at the invitation of the Bagnes Museum, then the PALP festival, she produced “Montagne Show” and “Jardin du souvenir”.
Her work has been exhibited in particular at the Rencontres Photographies d’Arles, at the Photoforum Pasquart in Bienne, at the Journees Photographies de Bienne, at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon and in different places and festivals between Switzerland, France, Portugal and Holland.

Location

Begnins, Vaud

Contact

Awards

  • 2023Artistic Prize Region of Nyon 2023-2024
  • 2016Swiss photo award, finalist
  • 2014Artistic Prize City of Nyon 2014-2015
  • SFR Jeunes Talents, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
  • 2013VFG 2013 (young talents), 2nd prize

Exhibitions

  • 2024Pyxis, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • L'Atelierphoto, Nyon, Switzerland
  • 2023Festival ‘Palp‘, Bruson, Switzerland
  • 2022Musée de Bagnes, Le Châble, Switzerland
  • 2021Galerie Forma, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2019Galerie du Crocheton, Monthey, Switzerland
  • 2017Espace Eeeeh ! , Nyon, Switzerland
  • Villa Dutoit, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Festival ‘Backlight’, Tampere, Finland
  • 2016Festival ‘Journées photographiques de Bienne’, Switzerland
  • 2015Festival ‘Encontros da Imagem Braga‘, Portugal
  • Photofestival Lodz, Poland
  • 2014Festival ‘Breda International Photo‘, Breda, Netherlands
  • Festival ‘Les Rencontres photographiques d'Arles‘, Arles, France

Publications

  • 2024Leurs échos dans mes yeux, Edition Nichette, ISBN 978-2-8399-4364-2
  • 2014Songs for the Heart, Breda Photo Festival, Edition Zutven
  • Tendance, Edition EnQuête photographique Valaisanne / EQ2
  • 2013Prix des Jeunes Talents en photographie vfg 2013, Edition Benteli, ISBN: 978-3-7165-1785-7