Open Air Photo Festival
Open Air Photo Festival
July 4, 2022
Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami on the hills outside of Teheran, where he shot his movie ‘Taste of Cherry’, for which he was awarded the Palme D’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Captured by Iranian photographer Abbas Attar © Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos
The programme also includes two major retrospectives dedicated to the oeuvres of Abbas and Véronique de Viguerie.
Ethics and sustainability, people and nature have always been at the heart of La Gacilly. This year, the festival introduces a new programme of photographic commissions launched by the Yves Rocher Foundation, which aims to raise awareness of the destruction of natural habitats around the world: biodiversity – the cornerstone of all life on Earth – is threatened due to human greed and unbridled development. On the premise that it is our duty to ensure sustainability for future generations, the Yves Rocher Foundation has launched a new campaign (set to run until 2024), which aims to raise awareness and advocate for the protection of natural habitats around the world. Part I of this ambitious campaign – an extraordinary, long-term series by Mélanie Wenger captured in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands – will be showcased at this year’s La Gacilly festival.
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Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami on the hills outside of Teheran, where he shot his movie ‘Taste of Cherry’, for which he was awarded the Palme D’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Captured by Iranian photographer Abbas Attar © Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos
Tahmeena, a young Badakhshi woman near Shar e Zohak, Bamya. From the series ‘Pearl in the Oyster’ © Fatimah Hossaini
From the series ‘Lecture pour les rues de Téhéran’
© Maryam Firuzi
Observation hut built by the French Polar Institute to allow close observation of the penguin colony at Cap Ratmanoff on the Kerguelen Islands. Volunteer scientists and TAAF Nature Reserve staff take turns being stationed here for various ornithological study programmes © Mélanie Wenger
A refugee camp in a suburb of Kabul, 2019
© Véronique de Viguerie