Young talent springboard : Five talents, one unanimous winner
Abdoulaye Barry, Grégory Dargent, Chau-Cuong Lê, Jean-Charles Remicourt-Marie and Julia Vogelweith are the names of the five photographers selected by the Planche(s) Contact jury last spring to participate in the festival's Young Talent Springboard Award. They have chosen to tell the daily life, the history or the imagination of a territory, with various approaches ranging from documentary to portrait and staging. The works - currently presented at Point de Vue - attest to the great maturity of the candidates, which was underlined by all the members of the jury.
This year, the presidency was entrusted to Sarah Moon. The photographer also emphasized the involvement and sincerity shown by the candidates before the deliberation.
Chau-Cuong Lê, 2019 winner
Chau-Cuong Lê wins the 2019 award and unanimously for his work conducted on the theme of adolescence. He receives a grant of 3500 € which will allow him to pursue his personal photographic projects. Between reportage and staging, his very thorough photographic narrative testifies to a strong complicity with a group of teenagers who lent themselves to his game. The photographer has mixed color with metallic gray images for a very peaceful vision of their idle world. The gray of the intermediary between childhood and the adult world, the gray of the subtlety of a life without drama and idle. Malaise and violence - so common in works on adolescence - have with this new writing given way to sensuality and poetry carried by very aesthetic settings.
His background
After studying economic analysis and policy, Chau-Cuong Lê took the time to travel. A time public writer, then employed at the Samu Social, he trained in 2003 in photojournalism at the EMI-CFD (Paris). After graduating, he co-founded the BaSoH collective and took part in various projects: reports for the Secours Catholique, coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, coverage of the European Social Forums in Paris and London, photo workshops in schools... The collective adventure ends in 2009.
Today, he divides his time between advertising and corporate commissions, and reports for the press. At the same time, he develops personal projects around the notion of intimacy and family ties, and also questions the notion of waiting, of suspended time.
He has been a member of Studio Hans Lucas since 2015, co-opted by Wilfrid Estève.
I was very touched by the mix of reporting and staging. The mastery of the images and the emotion that emerges from them.
Rich exchanges
The five photographic writings - inscribed in today's photographic language - were the subject of debate and exchange between the members of the jury. They were challenged by Jean Charles Rémicourt's exhibition and his historical, precise and well-documented subject matter, perfectly staged in travel trunks; sensitive to Gregory Dargent's love story and moods printed in charcoal blacks; surprised by the authenticity of Abdoulaye Barry's adventure in the North Sea, whose photographs on the same theme in Chad had seduced them. Julie Vogelweith's images - taken in difficult conditions and framed - will finally remain in everyone's memory as they are so moving and accurate.
Jury members: Laura Serani, Artistic Director of Planche(s) Contact 2019, Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville, Lionel Charrier, Photo Editor of Libération, Babeth Djian, Editorial Director of Numéro, Alain Genestar, General Manager of Polka Magazine & Vice President of the Jury, Thierry Grillet, Director of Cultural Diffusion of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Julien Guerrier, Director of Éditions Louis Vuitton, Marin Karmitz, Founder of MK2 cinemas, Anne Lacoste, Director of the Institute for Photography.
Practice
Exhibition place of the Tremplin Jeunes Talents : Au Point de Vue, boulevard de la mer
Days / hours: every day from October 19 to November 3 and from December 21 to January 5, from 10:30 am to 1 pm and from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Between November 9 and December 15, the rooms are open only on Saturdays and Sundays at the same times.
