Mathieu M\u00e9nard, winner of the Prix Voltaire 2020<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mathieu M\u00e9nard, our 2020 winner, shows here his commitment and his desire to meet his contemporaries. He thus offers us the series \u00ab Femmes de la halte<\/i> \u00bb in the form of triptychs. This complex and at the same time refined presentation of the residents of a reception center in the Paris region rings true.
\nEach, welcomed and some welcoming, poses facing itself, from the back and then three-quarters. These sets end with the image of an important, vital, memory or hope object, which these invisible women of the street have chosen to show.
\nParadoxically, it is this object which brings us to the most intimate of these portraits and thus opens a little the doors of what sometimes helps them to move forward …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Of a rigorous construction and under an adequate light highlighted in a bright red which reinforces the links of the series, \u00ab Femmes de la halte<\/em> \u00bb is a social report for which the photojournalist did not hesitate to assume the aesthetics.
\nThis remark as this form seduced us, because they leave a very strong impression of empathy and truth, without ever falling into the trap of miserableness.
\nThe Prix Voltaire de la Photographie will therefore have the pleasure of exhibiting an extract from the finalist series and of course the complete series by Mathieu MENARD, portraits of isolated women who are usually invisible, in prestigious national monuments, starting October 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\nWe like to imagine the smile of the patriarch of Ferney, philosopher of lights and humanist so committed, at the idea of \u200b\u200bhosting at his place such an exhibition\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\u00a9 Mathieu M\u00e9nard<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Mathieu M\u00e9nard<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>“Photography allows me to materialize – through an aesthetic as well as a documentary approach – my commitment to societal subjects that affect me particularly.”<\/p>\n
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https:\/\/www.mathieumenard.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Mathieu M\u00e9nard, our 2020 winner, shows here his commitment and his desire to meet his contemporaries. He thus offers us the series \u00ab Femmes de la halte<\/i> \u00bb in the form of triptychs. This complex and at the same time refined presentation of the residents of a reception center in the Paris region rings true. Of a rigorous construction and under an adequate light highlighted in a bright red which reinforces the links of the series, \u00ab Femmes de la halte<\/em> \u00bb is a social report for which the photojournalist did not hesitate to assume the aesthetics. We like to imagine the smile of the patriarch of Ferney, philosopher of lights and humanist so committed, at the idea of \u200b\u200bhosting at his place such an exhibition\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div> “Photography allows me to materialize – through an aesthetic as well as a documentary approach – my commitment to societal subjects that affect me particularly.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.mathieumenard.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>
\nEach, welcomed and some welcoming, poses facing itself, from the back and then three-quarters. These sets end with the image of an important, vital, memory or hope object, which these invisible women of the street have chosen to show.
\nParadoxically, it is this object which brings us to the most intimate of these portraits and thus opens a little the doors of what sometimes helps them to move forward …<\/p>\n<\/div>
\nThis remark as this form seduced us, because they leave a very strong impression of empathy and truth, without ever falling into the trap of miserableness.
\nThe Prix Voltaire de la Photographie will therefore have the pleasure of exhibiting an extract from the finalist series and of course the complete series by Mathieu MENARD, portraits of isolated women who are usually invisible, in prestigious national monuments, starting October 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div><\/div>\u00a9 Mathieu M\u00e9nard<\/h5>\n<\/div>
Mathieu M\u00e9nard<\/h1>\n<\/div>