DAVID DE BEYTER

THOMAS DEVAUX

MARC-ANTOINE GARNIER

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For this 2025 edition, Galerie Bacqueville is bringing together three photographers whose work, through their respective techniques, is part of the history of photography. For Marc-Antoine Garnier, the subject being photographed determines the way in which the photographic medium is manipulated: a Japanese cherry tree in flower is meticulously scraped to bring about a new blossom, or the dense foliage of Agapanthus becomes material for weaving, and so on. In Thomas Devaux's new series, Compulsions, the photographer reworks images taken from CCTV cameras during Black Friday, associating colours and consumer impulses in a continuation of his cycle on desire. David De Beyter, for his part, is extending his research into ufological phenomena and the belief in photography as a medium of truth, by applying a protocol for altering the light and the medium: each image is the result of a solar superimposition of a single sheet of film, exposed several times in the view camera.

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Image below: Thomas Devaux, Compulsion 2, 2025

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