« Des regards en noir et blanc, d'ici et d'ailleurs »

Black & white, here and there

Since 2022, Ithaque has been developing film photography workshops for children and young people in Les Mureaux, Compiègne, Saint-Denis and the Goutte d’Or district of Paris. Designed as a project to democratize photography, it places the image at the heart of a learning of the gaze, of self-expression and of the encounter with the other.

The exhibition presented from 4 February to 27 March 2027 brings together a selection of photographs taken as part of these workshops, as well as images produced in Mardin, Turkey, by the children participating in the workshops of the association Fotohane Darkroom with which Ithaque collaborates.

Through the exhibition Noir & blanc, here and there, the photographs taken here and there resonate: the gazes intersect between the neighborhoods of Saint-Denis, the Victoire, the Clos de Roses, the Goutte d’Or and the streets of Mardin and its periphery. Portraits of college students, scenes of everyday life, battles of breakdance, urban landscapes or fragments of intimacy compose a set where each image becomes a way of telling its environment and its place in the world.

Here, film photography becomes an educational tool as well as a means of emancipation: learning to observe, to frame, to reveal an image, but also to learn to tell oneself.

Beyond a restitution of workshops, Black & White, here and there affirms the possibility of a cultural dialogue between young people living in different geographical, social and political contexts. The exhibition values their images, their experiences and their ability to produce a look at the world. She also defends sustainable and shared access to photographic practice, making creation a space for transmission, encounter and recognition.