Photographs taken by students.
Artistic intention thought and led by Dominique Mérigard, photographer.
Creation time conducted on four days in February 2017.
With Delphine Perrin, school teacher.
À the school of Notre-Dame-de-Vaulx (38).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Pôle de photographie and DSDEN Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Canopé as part of the Des clics et des classes program.
This year, the Des Clics et des Classes system offers a cross-fertilization of views and practices: two schools, one in France and one abroad; two photographers, one here and the other there, who accompany the young students in the creation. The objective is to install a correspondence, photographic and artistic.
Stimultania is one of the six chosen proposals. The project involves the school of Notre-Dame-De-Vaulx (38) and a school in Cambodia. The An Eye For An Eye association chooses the photographer who will work there, Stimultania invites Dominique Mérigard to support young French students.
Dominique Mérigard knows Cambodia from which he has extracted a moving photographic series. A series that questions the idea of memory, particularly in a place steeped in history, the idea of testimony too, of traces. And if the exchange with Cambodia is not always easy to set up and reach a real scale, the experience in the small mountain school, with the photographer, quickly becomes very rich.
While responding to the images sent from there, students and artist focus on a subject: to go together in search of places of memory, both collective (the village hall disappeared in the flames, the coal mines) but also personal and intimate. Feet in the snow and rosy cheeks, digital cameras and Polaroid at arm's length, the group travels the surroundings for 4 days and paints a sensitive and touching portrait of Notre-Dame-De-Vaulx.
Production: 40 A4 format books distributed to students
Born in 1964, Dominique Mérigard lives in Paris. Graduated from the Estienne School of Arts and Graphic Industries. Photographer and graphic designer, he is also the editor of several photography books published by Intensity. He has obtained several scholarships and artist residencies. One of them, carried out in Portugal, gave rise to the publication by Editions Filigranes of the book Douro, journal des elements, nominated among the eight best first photo books in 2004. Through his photographs, he questions the notions of time, memory, transmission or loss, as in the series Witness S-21 (1994-1995) on the genocide in Cambodia (book published by Le bec en l'air editions). His photographs are regularly presented in France and abroad.
