Shanghai theatre inspiration tour for L’Oréal

The workshop, which took place during the week of June 24th, 2024, is initiated by L’Oréal University for Retail and aimed at drawing inspirations for product and experience design from the principles and techniques of theatre set design. The content of this week-long exercise is developed by renowned French set designer Gilles Taschet, who, throughout […]

Salvaged from the shadows, protecting cultural heritage.

What is ALIPH ? ALIPH is a foundation that protects heritage – museums and their collections, sites and monuments, documentation and manuscripts, intangible heritage – in conflict and post-conflict zones. Today, ALIPH has supported over 450 projects in 35 countries, with a total budget of $60 million. These projects include the protection of the collections […]

Nuit Blanche 2024: Fire at the Station!

An exhibition of Léo Nataf Animal skulls, flints, masks, headdresses, camel skins used to make parchments, gri-gris, ritual objects, volcanic rock, stones picked up along the way… Léo Nataf’s travels, which have taken him from hunter-gatherer communities (in the Amazon, Papua New Guinea and Mexico) to lands linked to the Jewish, Amazigh, Arab and African […]

Photography mission for the French Institute of China

Participating art professionals Aurélia Marcadier An art historian, Aurelia Marcadier worked for six years in a gallery-publishing house before founding TEMPLE in 2013, dedicated to emerging photography and publishing. At the helm of PhotoSaintGermain since 2015, she is responsible for the artistic direction of the festival as well as the production of original exhibitions in […]

Go With the Flow

“No, photography is not just nostalgia for the past. It is always torn between two opposing and complementary desires: one aims to stop the passage of time and freeze representation, the other anticipates and accompanies the movement of the world.”  Serge Tisseron, The mystery of the lucid camera, Photography and the unconscious (1996) Standing on […]

AlUla, Wonder of Arabia : Symposium

Over two days, the Directors of the archaeological projects working at AlUla, as well as experts carrying out research at other major sites in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presented an overview of the historical knowledge of AlUla and the Kingdom, some of whose treasures are being unveiled to the world for the very first […]