Photographs taken by Assia Dicursi, Valentine Gaboriaux, Lalita Khachaturyan, Soline Revalo, Élodie Rosa, residents of Givors and Hugo Ribes, Philippe Somnolet, Adrienne Surprenant, photographers from the Item collective, as part of the project Here it is Givors # 2.
Intervention carried by Stimultania. Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region within the framework of FIACRE, the city of Givors call for Solidarity Quarters project. Registered intervention within the Ici c'est Givors program carried out by Stimultania in the city of Givors in 2021, supported by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
The banks of the Gier, around the Givors Canal station, the square in the Vernes district
Five young women, three photojournalists, riversides, a “sensitive” neighborhood, an indefinite area around the station, concrete, construction sites, flying petals, a blue thread, Roman bridges, pastel buildings, muscular men, nice pitbulls, a system D barbecue, hikers, a creepy tunnel, a domestic rabbit, a proud young man, smiling women… This new session of the “Here is Givors” project was intense and productive.
After a first experience in 2020, Hugo Ribes, Adrienne Surprenant and Philippe Somnolet, the three photojournalists from the Item collective, returned to Givors in April 2021 to explore three new areas. This time they were accompanied by Valentine, Soline, Élodie, Assia and Lalita, young residents of Givors. Together, they went to meet the spaces but also the users of the areas to be surveyed, producing over the week three singular and rich series where the productions of the participants mingle with those of the photographers.
The images are displayed from October 2021 to February 2022 on the windows of Stimultania.
FOR FURTHER
Collective Item is based in Lyon: “For the past twenty years, in France and abroad, many photographers have chosen to come together in order to imagine together their own working and production methods. These collective structures, built on the model of cooperative agencies, seek, through the exchange and sharing of means of production, to offer “long-term” images, far from the single shock visual with an illustrative vocation. This method of organization, combining the principles of independence and solidarity, allows them to preserve their author's approach and to control the production of their images, from their development to the choice of possible outcomes.
The Item collective is an independent production structure that develops skills in photo-journalistic writing. A know-how that he declines in the field of the press, the company and the institutions. The item collective is a workspace that gives itself the time and the means necessary to build real subjects, thought of as photographic stories in their own right.
His photographic production operates in a permanent dialogue between individual work and collective projects, personal work and commissioned work. The item collective is a dissemination space that is open to the public by organizing individual or collective exhibitions, within the framework of its studio, to show the diversity of the writings that make up the field of photojournalism.
Born in 2001, the Item collective is now made up of nine photographers, Romain Etienne, Bertrand Gaudillère, Nicolas Leblanc, Cyril Marcilhacy, Etienne Maury, Paloma Laudet, Hugo Ribes, Jeremy Suyker, the anthropologist photographer Philippe Somnolet, and the graphic designer and scenographer Yannick Bailly.
The structure would be nothing without the involvement of Laureen Quincy, coordinator and administrator.”
