For the 14th edition of Portrait(s), Vichy’s photographic rendez-vous, I was invited by CAVILAM – Alliance Française for its francophone photographic residency, in partnership with Vichy Culture — after Christophe Acker (2024) and Namsa Leuba (2025).
Identités au carré brings together square-format portraits of the school’s international students, who come from Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kurdistan, Ukraine, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Australia, Mexico and Colombia. Some arrived in France fleeing difficult political contexts, others for the simple pleasure of learning a language. Together we looked for the truest way of representing them: in their singularity, their relationship to Vichy, and the visible or intimate ties they keep with their countries of origin.
The series is on view on the façades of the pôle universitaire / CAVILAM – Alliance Française in Vichy, from June to December 2026. Portrait(s) 2026 runs from 19 June to 4 October 2026.
