LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES Randa Mirza, winner of the 1st Photo Book grants #1, exhibits her “Beirutopia” series at Rencontres d’Arles 2024 from July 1 to September 29! The “Beirutopia” book published by Le bec en lair will be out in June! BEIRUTOPIA is a visual essay with a biographical scope, premonitory of the multidimensional crisis – political, financial and social – that Lebanon is going through. This project takes a critical look at the brutal transformation of post-war Beirut through seven works produced between 2000 and 2022. Eyes Wide Open is delighted to support Randa Mirza’s project as part of the Bourses du 1er livre Photo (edition 1) program. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Saif. For further information, click here

“CIVIS MARITIMUS, 1ÈRE VAGUE” EXHIBITION EYES WIDE OPEN X ITINÉRANCES FOTO (SÈTE) MAY 1 TO 20, 2024 Opening Thursday May 9 from 5:00 p.m., meeting and DJ set with DJ Filosofia 📍Salle Tarbouriech – Théâtre de la Mer, Promenade Maréchal Leclerc – Sète Organized by Eyes Wide Open, the Civis Maritimus, 1ère vague exhibition invites four young artists to take a step back from our conventional perception of the marine environment. Ronan Guillou 2023 grant winners Aliki Christoforou and Charles Thiefaine will present the results of their residency in Sète. With the series “Les particules, conte humain d’une eau qui meurt”, Manon Lanjouère offers us a poetic and photographic manifesto in favor of ocean preservation. Alice Pallot confronts us with the environmental and health issues of green algae in a photographic series that takes the beaches of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc and the surrounding area as its creative space, in

MALTA – TUNIS – MARSEILLE RELEASE JUNE 14, 2024 KATEL DELIA X IMAGES PLURIELLES WINNER OF THE 1ST PHOTO BOOK 2023 GRANTS “Malta – Tunis – Marseille” is one of the next books supported by the 1st photo book grants published by Images Plurielles, which will be released on June 14! Pre-orders available: https: //www.imagesplurielles.com/fr/accueil/133-malta-tunis-marseille-.html Summary:“Because of my Maltese father’s origins, who settled in Tunisia at the beginning of the 20th century until 1961, I feel a deep attachment to this country, even though I’ve never lived there. To explore the traces of the past, I’ve been to Tunisia several times.In 2017, I had an emotional shock when I walked into a grocery store similar to my grandparents’. I decided to start this photographic work mixing photographs from family archives and my own photographs.” Katel Delia has been awarded a €5,000 grant as part of the Eyes Wide Open 2023

UNIQUE, BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY” EXHIBITION HANGAR (BELGIUM) APRIL 19 > JUNE 8, 2024OPENING APRIL 18, 5:30 TO 8:30 P.M. In the exhibition UNIQUE, Hangar explores 21 projects by Belgium-based artists, including the work of Aliki Christoforou – winner of the Ronan Guillou 2023 Grants – with her “perspectives submergées” series developed as part of this grant. What unites them: the creative gesture. It’s not just the photographic point of view that’s celebrated here, but also manual labor. Establishing this physical link with the work translates into the creation of one-of-a-kind pieces that defy the norms of silver photography and stand in opposition to the reproducibility of digital photography. UNIQUE is all about meaning and awareness. Most of the artists link their gestural practice to conceptual approaches, tackling subjects such as ecology, the role of women, the degradation of nature, technological upheaval, and many others, feeding into major global debates. MORE INFO

OPEN CALL : 4 MARS – 14 AVRIL 2024   Eyes Wide Open est heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de la deuxième édition des Bourses Ronan Guillou dans le cadre du programme CIVIS MARITIMUS, en hommage au photographe Ronan Guillou.  À partir d’un même territoire – la région Occitanie – CIVIS MARITIMUS invite deux photographes européen·nes et/ou de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, à produire chacun·e un projet photographique engagé sur des questions de société, culturelles, écologiques et/ou patrimoine mettant en lien l’humain et le monde marin. Les deux photographes boursier·es auront une période de deux mois et demi pour réaliser leur projet pour une livraison finale des éléments attendus au plus tard le 15 septembre 2024. Ils auront l’obligation d’être présents sur Sète le 7 mai 2024 pour assister et participer à l’ouverture du parcours “Itinérances Foto”. Une rencontre en public sera organisée pour présenter leur démarche.

EXHIBITION LES PARTICULES GARE DE LYON X CIVIS MARITIMUS The series Les particules, the human tale of dying waterby Manon Lanjouère, initiated on the schooner tara and published by The Eyes in the collection Civis Maritimus is on display at the Gare de Lyon in Paris for the 20th anniversary of the Tara expeditions. Exhibition produced with the support of SNCF Gares & Connexions and the Tara Foundation. A project developed by Eyes Wide Open. Find out more about “Particles