From 4 April to 23 August 2026

Free

From 4 April to 23 August 2026, the Musée de Grenoble is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the work of Bernard Descamps, featuring around a hundred photographs donated by the artist in 2025, including previously unseen prints. The Bernard Descamps exhibition – Where the Wind Blows invites visitors to follow the photographer’s gaze as he has observed humanity and its relationship with the world, and with nature in particular, for over 40 years. Every journey and every destination undertaken since 1974 stands as an encounter with the Other, but also as a face-to-face encounter with the self. This geographical and personal journey places his work within the history of photography in a unique way: An image of our world rendered with an economy of means that elevates reality through poetry and, at times, a touch of irony. For him, travel is by no means an end in itself, nor is the journey a creative process: it is, above all, the realisation of a dream. That of a child who discovered Africa in 1991 and, as he says, fell in love with it. What inspires him day by day is, above all, the lives of the men and women with whom he stays in the Central African Republic, Mali or Morocco. Each image stands as an invitation to take a step back in order to preserve this land, whose balance is being undermined by the challenges of globalist, ultra-consumerist politics.

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