Presentation of the Planche(s) Contact Award 2018

Born in 1981 in Nantes, Guillaume Noury has been developing his photographic practice for the past fifteen years, affirming his highly contrasting style with each new series, from the streets of Nantes to Sarajevo via Trieste. During his creative residency, Guillaume Noury walked the road that goes from the old to the new Deauville, from its heights to the level of the beach. In this repeated wandering, ghostly fragments emerge. Inspired by Anders Petersen, a photographer of the living who prefers images of the sensitive to photographs of the visible, Guillaume Noury proposes a compulsive photography. From this emerge dense and deep black and whites, a series supported by a powerful silver grain that takes us into a nocturnal Deauville and that seduced the members of the jury on Saturday, October 27.

Benjamin of the Tremplin Jeunes Talents 2018, Hugo Vouhé explores both street photography and staging. If these two fields seem incompatible, his photographic writing brings them together in a singular work on narration and light. At the crossroads of visual inspirations oscillating between photography and cinema, from Joel Meyerowitz to Harry Gruyaert for the photographers, from David Lynch to Wim Wenders or Jacques Demy for the filmmakers, his Stories challenge us.
Through his photographs made for the Festival, Hugo Vouhé takes us into his universe, reconciling the Deauville of parties, glamour and fashion photos with the more fragile and secret Deauville. Hugo Vouhé plays with the codes of fashion photography and a cinematic aesthetic. In Villa Strassburger where time has stopped, two women wander, almost absent, in this house-museum, a memory of the bourgeois villas of Deauville in the 1950s. This work earned him a special mention from the Jury.