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The Residency : from 27 August to 11 September 2010

Niort, France, a town of 60,000 inhabitants, has been the setting for this residency since the very beginning of the annual Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale. The eight selected residents will be accompanied throughout their stay by Christian Caujolle, co-founder of the Agence VU, and will be given full technical support from the team of the association Pour l'Instant. A technical centre, fully equipped to professional standards, including a black and white darkroom and a digital workshop is reserved for their exclusive use. In this context, the young artists are invited to create and experiment. They have total carte blanche to work as they wish, stimulated by their encounters, exchanges and the diverse approaches of other participants. This amounts to a truly unique artistic experience.

Conditions of the residency :
Expenses fully covered during the residency include: All supplies required for creation, accommodation, breakfast and evening meal from 27 August to 11 September 2010. During the
residency, the selected artists must produce an exhibition. Created works will be exhibited at the end of the stay until 24 October, and will then be added to the collection of works constituted over the years by the association.
All negatives and original digital files remain the property of the author.

Application :
Candidates must send the completed application form, together with a CV, a text describing their artistic approach and a representative selection of recent work. The description of a project envisaged for this residency can be added to the application, but is not obligatory. - Print
submissions (traditional or digital) can be of any format and quantity. - For digital submissions (on CD or DVD only), image files must be in low resolution, Mac/PC compatible format, without requiring any downloading. Web sites cannot be considered as part of a candidate's application. Applications are to be sent to:
Association ´Pour l'Instant', 7 avenue de Limoges, 79000 Niort, France; pourlinstant@wanadoo.fr The date limit for reception of applications is 5 May 2010.
The work submitted by the selected candidates will be exhibited from 25 June to 9 September.
Selected candidates must agree to ensure that works for this exhibition arrive at the address of Pour L'Instant in Niort by 10 June (transportation costs will be reimbursed by the organisers during the residency upon presentation of invoices). Only those applications that include sufficient stamped, self-addressed packaging can be returned.

Jury :
Presided over by Christian Caujolle, the jury will be composed of leading figures in photography and art, together with members of the association. They will meet 8 May and will select the eight successful candidates, who will be informed by telephone or email. The result will also be announced on the website of the
association: www.pourlinstant.com

Having studied under Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu, Christian Caujolle, from 1979 on, wrote regularly on photography in the Culture pages of the French daily newspaper ´Liberation'. In 1981, while continuing this activity, he became the paper's Editor of Photography. He created the Agence VU, ´the photographers' agency, in 1986, and twelve years later, the gallery of the same name. Since 2007, he has been teaching at the higher national school, Louis Lumière, as well as in other art schools and various foreign establishments, while continuing to write and to organise exhibitions and festivals. A member of numerous international juries, including World Press Photo, he has published many books (mostly for Actes Sud Editions) including works by and on Lartigue, Salgado, Depardon, William Klein, Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Isabel Muñoz, Peter Beard, and Bernard Faucon. -Artistic Director of the Rencontres d'Arles in 1997, he created Photo Phnom Penh in 2008, the annual festival in Cambodia, and for the fiftieth anniversary of Word Press Photo, organised the major exhibition ´Things as They Are', for which the catalogue (Chris Boot Publisher) won praise throughout the world.


Source: Oberlist

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