For several years, Stimultania Pôle de photographie has been developing an atypical editorial work devoted to collective creations, produced by professional artists and amateur participants. : custom-edited objects at the end of the creation period and a review, Expérimentations Splendides. In parallel with the print editions, a series of podcasts, as a new broadcast channel for the artists' voices, was created following the health crisis.
Our new frontiers is a podcast cycle co-produced by Stimultania and the CPA (Center du Patrimoine Arménien), echoing the photographic project led by Guillaume Herbaut with two groups of volunteers, in Givors and Valence, in January and March 2021.
FIRST ASPECT: GUILLAUME HERBAUT
This first part is a dialogue with the photojournalist Guillaume Herbaut led by Chrystèle Roveda, head of the public sector of the CPA, recorded in January 2021. It is structured around three photographs which allow the artist to talk about his approach, his way of approaching the world and the general theme of the project: the border seen from the angle of the current health situation and the experience of confinement.
Guillaume Herbaut, born in 1970, lives and works in Paris. Along with commissions for the press, his documentary work takes him to places steeped in history: Chernobyl, Auschwitz, Nagasaki, Ukraine. His photographs have been exhibited at the Jeu de Paume, at the Maison rouge and in numerous festivals. He has received several awards, including two World Press, a Visa d'or, the Niépce 2011 prize and, in 2016, the Bayeux-Calvados prize for war correspondents, web journalism category, for his roadmap in Ukraine produced by Arte Info.
SECOND PART: THE PARTICIPANTS
In this second session, they are the voices of Kassem, Prewa, Louise, Salim, captured during the creation time conducted with Guillaume Herbaut in January in Givors. An immersion in lived experience and shared reflections. This logbook is provided by Matilde Brugni, public manager at Stimultania.
THIRD PART: THE RESEARCHER
The third and final section gives the floor to researcher Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary, specialist in political geography, professor of Geography at the University of Grenoble-Alpes and director of the CNRS Pacte laboratory. She looks at the images produced during the interventions and extends the reflections. An interview conducted by Chrystèle Roveda, head of the CPA's public center.
Anne-Laure-Amilhat-Szary is a specialist in political geography, professor of geography at the Université Grenoble-Alpes and director of the CNRS Pacte laboratory (UMR 5194). Former student of ENS Fontenay-Lyon, agrégée de Géographie, junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2010-2015).
Podcasts broadcast from April 2021 on the Stimultania and CPA websites, by the Traces network, History, memories and news of migrations in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Mega Radio, FCR 26, Radio Saint-Ferreol et BLV radio.
Intervention carried out by Stimultania and the CPA (Armenian Heritage Center), as part of the national program of transmission and photographic practice workshops Between images developed by the Diagonal Network supported by the Ministry of Culture.
Intervention included in the program Make faces carried by Stimultania on Givors in 2021, supported by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and the city of Givors.