Venue: Villa Noailles, Hyères

Exhibitions presented as part of the festival:
→ Collections by the 10 finalists of the Fashion Competition
→ Collections by the 10 finalists of the Accessories Competition
→ Projects by the 10 finalists of the Photography Competition
→ Arhant Shresta, 2024 7L Photography Grand Jury Prize: “Loose Fist”
→ Chiyang Duan, 2024 Accessories Grand Jury Prize: “Hat-trick”
→ Romain Bichot, le19M Métiers d’Art Prize
→ Basile Pelletier, 2024 American Vintage Photography Prize: “Un temps pour vivre” (A Time to Live)
→ Dolev Elron, Première Vision Grand Jury Prize

Whether it’s a bygone Lavandou captured by the British photographer Shirley Baker in the 1970s and ’80s, the long journeys across Central Asia of MariBlanche Hannequin, the Chilean, Indian or African escapes of Françoise Nuñez, the Cuban street scenes of Agnès Varda, or the timeless portraits of Sabine Weiss taken across the globe, each of these photographers offers a visual language that blends movement and contemplation through a deeply humanist lens.

Through their work, the aim is not only to show the world, but to reveal its subtlety — quiet humour, tenderness, melancholy, joy and vital energy. These photographic journeys become bridges between distant lands and our own imagination, between intimate stories and collective memory.

The Villa Tamaris, art centre of the TPM Metropolis, is dedicating a major retrospective to Sebastião Salgado, highlighting one of his landmark projects: Genesis. This photographic journey is a quest for origins, exploring territories untouched by the modern world. Majestic landscapes, ancestral peoples and wild fauna form a mosaic of a nature that has remained unspoilt. From polar regions to arid deserts, from tropical forests to icy mountains, Salgado unveils the raw beauty of our planet. Genesis is both a tribute to this sovereign nature and a call to protect it.