Events + exhibits in Murdochville
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PHOTOGRAPHER TOUR
Saturday, August 17
| 8:30 pm | Murdochville Hôtel de ville, salle municipale 635, 5e Rue |
 Jacky Georges Lafargue + Louis Couturier (Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec): Projection and get-together with the artists |
EXHIBIT
July 10 to September 11 2013
Louis Couturier + Jacky Georges Lafargue: “MURDOCHVILLE – LA BEAUTÉ DE LA DESTRUCTION” (MURDOCHVILLE – THE BEAUTY OF DESTRUCTION)
Centre sportif | 501, avenue Miller | View map
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La Gaspésie s'expose
Exposition permanente La Gaspésie s'expose présentée à la Vieille Usine de l'Anse-à-Beaufils (55, rue à Bonfils).
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Dave Anderson at Matapédia (2012)
After studies at the International Center for Photography, Dave Anderson began his career in media and politics. At the age of 30 he left the field to concentrate on photography.
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Aislinn Leggett in Nouvelle (2012)
Aislinn Leggett was born in Namur, Quebec, in 1981. She is a photo-based artist, currently finishing her BFA at Concordia University. Working both with traditional photography and photomontage, her work explores memory through objects and archives.
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Anja Niedringhaus in Carleton-Sur-Mer (Carleton sector) (2012)
Anja Niedringhaus was born in Höxter, Germany, in 1965. First based in Frankfurt am Main for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in 2002, for the Associated Press (AP).
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Beatrix von Conta in residence in the Gaspé (2012)
Beatrix von Conta, photographer, was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She has lived in France since 1975.
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Christian Lamontagne in Cap-Chat (2012)
Christian Lamontagne is a Canadian photographer specializing in photojournalism and documentaries.
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Doreen Lindsay in Gaspé (2012)
Doreen Lindsay lives and works in Montreal, Quebec since 1959. Her intense interest in her immediate environment developed from her involvement during the 1970s with Powerhouse, a women’s art gallery, where she realized that the personal life experiences of each women artist could sustain their work.
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Edward Burtynsky in Gaspé (2012)
« These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. »
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Eli Laliberté at Bonaventure (2012)
Eli Laliberté is a scriptwriter, director of photography, cameraman, director and producer. He has been active in the media arts for close to 20 years.
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Ewa Monika Zebrowski in Marsoui (2012)
Ewa Monika Zebrowski’s work touches on the themes of memory, place and time. She creates visual narratives often inspired by literature, sometimes collaborating with writers and poets, including Mark Strand and Anne Michaels.
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Flora in Paspébiac (2012)
Flora is a French photographer based in Paris. She has numerous exhibits to her credit, in France and in Italy.
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Gabor Szilasi in Gaspé (2012)
Gabor Szilasi is a documentary photographer recognized for his humanitarian vision.
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Guillaume D. Cyr and Yana Ouellet at Chandler (2012)
Guillaume D. Cyr, more Cartesian, and Yana Ouellet, more instinctive, make up a duo with complementary ways of looking at things.
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Jocelyne Alloucherie at Paspébiac (2012)
Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montreal, and has been exhibiting since 1973. By way of complex configurations, her work conceptually and poetically explores notions relative to the image, the object and the place.
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Martin Beaulieu in Carleton-Sur-Mer (Saint-Omer sector) (2012)
Martin Beaulieu has been an independent photographer since 1996, based in Montreal. In 1998 he did his first work on the politico-socio-economic situation in Tibet and on the Tibetans in exile in India.
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Maryse Goudreau in Chandler (2012)
Maryse Goudreau was born in Pointe-à-la-Croix, on the Gaspé Peninsula, in 1980. The themes of memory and identity lie at the heart of her research in photography.
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Nick Kline in Carleton-Sur-Mer (Carleton sector) (2012)
For the past three years, Nick Kline’s work has addressed psychological trauma and its impact on survivors.
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Normand Rajotte in Marsoui (2012)
A self-taught photographer, Normand Rajotte began his photographic practice in the mid-1970s as part of a wave of groups in Québec that were updating the documentary aesthetic.
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René Faulkner in Marsoui (2012)
René Faulkner has a passion for photography, illustration, the pictorial and the second dimension.
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Roger Proulx in Matapédia (2012)
Roger Proulx lives and works in Montreal. His practice is focused almost exclusively on photography.
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Serge Clément in Rivière-à-Claude and in Percé (downtown and Bonaventure Island) (2012)
The poetic art of Serge Clément was already apparent in his earliest projects, in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1993 he has devoted himself exclusively to artistic photography.
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Vanessa Winship in Bonaventure (2012)
Vanessa Winship is a British born photographer. She is a graduate of Cinema and Photography from the former Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster University).
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Jérôme Landry at Cap-Chat (2012)
Photography has been part of Jérôme Landry’s life since adolescence.
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Guy Lavigueur à New Richmond
A specialist in aerial photography for over twenty years, Guy Lavigueur overflies natural areas in order to reveal their unique signature.
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« La Presse » and « Le Devoir »: Current events, from 1990 to 2012, in Maria and in Grande-Vallée (2012)
In collaboration with the newspapers « La Presse » and « Le Devoir »...
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Exposition de la mosaïque des Gaspésiennes à Carleton-sur-Mer (2012)
Les Rencontres rendent hommage cette année aux Gaspésiennes qui ont contribué au développement du territoire et à celles qui bâtissent la Gaspésie d’aujourd’hui et de demain grâce au projet Gaspésiennes.
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Jocelyne Alloucherie in New Richmond (2013)
Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montreal, and has been exhibiting since 1973. By way of complex configurations, her work conceptually and poetically explores notions relative to image, object and place.
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Louis Couturier + Jacky Georges Lafargue in Murdochville and Bonaventure + Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine (2013)
Working as a duo since 1991, Louis Couturier and Jacky Georges Lafargue do research and experimentation work in environments that are isolated and/or out of the ordinary.
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Patrick Dionne et Miki Gingras in Chandler (2013)
Since 1999, Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras have been creating works inspired by political, social and cultural issues.
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Suzanne Opton in Maria (2013)
Suzanne Opton grew up in Oregon, the inspiration for many of her images.
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Michael Wolf in Marsoui (2013)
Michael Wolf grew up in the United States, Europe and Canada, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang School in Essen, Germany with Otto Steinert.
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Armando Ribeiro in New Richmond (2013)
Armando Ribiero’s work explores concepts relating to changing landscape, global environment and the human condition.
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Yves Gonthier in Nouvelle (2013)
“The Gaspé Peninsula has been the setting for what is essential in my life as an artist. I’m mostly identified with painting, but photography has always been part of my world.”
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Yves Beaulieu in Grande-Vallée (2013)
Born in Lévis, Québec, in 1956, Yves Beaulieu takes a tartly humorous look at the world that surrounds him, lending as much importance to the setting as to the actors in it.
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Tendance Floue (collective) in Carleton-sur-Mer (Carleton sector) (2013)
The creation of Tendance Floue, in 1991, was born of an unshakable determination to conserve a certain form of independence, a guarantor of each person’s freedom.
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Sébastien Michaud in Marsoui (2013)
In his work over the last few years, Sébastien Michaud has largely cast his eye over mass leisure pursuits and spaces designed for them by man.
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Sandra Lachance in Cap-Chat (2013)
Motivated by the relationship with the other, Sandra Lachance seeks to decompartmentalize the social classes: she brings art to where it is not expected.
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Helen Doyle (2013)
A freelance scriptwriter and director since 1973, Helen Doyle has won a number of awards for her work, recognized in Québec, Canada and abroad.
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Guillaume D. Cyr in Percé (2013)
Born in 1982 in New Richmond, the Gaspé, Guillaume D. Cyr lives and works in Quebec City as a freelance photographer.
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Frédéric Merlet in Percé (2013)
A freelance photographer since 2005, Frédéric Merlet has a two-step approach to his work, in the studio and in nature
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Beatrix von Conta in Paspébiac (2013)
Beatrix von Conta, photographer, was born in Germany and has lived in France since 1975.
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Evgenia Arbugaeva in Bonaventure (2013)
Evgenia Arbugaeva works as a freelance photographer between Russia and New York.
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Isabelle Hayeur in Carleton-sur-mer (Saint-Omer sector) (2013)
Isabelle Hayeur was born in Montreal in 1969. An image-based artist, she’s known for her large-size photomontages, her videos, and her site-specific installations.
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Alain Paiement in Gaspé (2013)
Alain Paiement looks at the world with the tools and methods of a geographer. His multidisciplinary work has evolved from painting to architectural photography, with a continued interest on his part in cartography.
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Serge Clément in Carleton-sur-Mer (Carleton sector) (2013)
The poetic art of Serge Clément was already apparent in his earliest projects, in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1993 he has devoted himself exclusively to artistic photography.
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Jean-François Lamoureux + Mathilde Fournier-Hébert in Matapédia (2013)
Jean-François Lamoureux and Mathilde Fournier-Hébert reflect on photographic practice and the use of the image by re-creating a space-time where the photographic act is connected to the subject not as a witness but as an event in itself.
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Flora’s artist residency in the Gaspé (2013)
Flora is a French photographer based in Paris. She has numerous exhibits to her credit, in France and in Italy.
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Laurent Villeret in residence in the Gaspé (2013)
Laurent Villeret discovered photography in his high school’s black-and-white photo lab. A graduate of École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, he began his career in aerial photography in Dubai.
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Festival Musique du Bout du Monde in photos (2013)
10e anniversaire du Festival de Musique du Bout du Monde
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Promenades photographiques de Vendôme (2013)
Dans leur volonté d’offrir de nouvelles plateformes de création et de diffusion pour les artistes, les Rencontres se sont associées aux Promenades photographiques de Vendôme.
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Bertrand Carrière in Carleton-sur-Mer
Over the last 30 years, Bertrand Carrière has created a varied body of photographic work.
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Bogdan Konopka in residency in the Gaspé
Born in 1953, Bogdan Konopka lived in Wrocław, Poland, where after training as a photochemist he worked in applied photography in the laboratory of the Wrocław University of Technology.
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Dina Goldstein in New Richmond
Dina Goldstein is a Canadian photographer and Pop Surrealist with a background in documentary photography.
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Donald Weber in Nouvelle (Miguasha)
Before photography, Donald Weber trained as an architect and worked with urban theorist Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, Holland.
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Estelle Marcoux at Maria (Gesgapegiag)
“Gaspesian by adoption with Montreal roots, I fell in love with photography during my film studies at Cégep Saint-Laurent.”
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Evgenia Arbugaeva in Marsoui
Evgenia Arbugaeva works as a freelance photographer between Russia and New York (United States).
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Flora in Carleton-sur-Mer
Flora is a French photographer based in Paris. She has numerous exhibits to her credit, in France and in Italy.
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Gilbert Garcin in Carleton-sur-Mer
“It all began in the summer of 1995, when Gilbert Garcin, newly retired and on the lookout for a second life, decided to take the plunge into photography and did some training to that end at Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles.”
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Helen Sear at Maria
Helen Sear first moved to Wales after completing her postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at the Slade School, University College London.
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Isabelle Hayeur in Paspébiac
A digital-image artist born in Montreal in 1969, Isabelle Hayeur is known for her large-size photomontages, her videos, and her site-specific installations, in which she highlights urban blights and sprawl and the industrialization of our societies.
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Jean-François Bérubé in Bonaventure and Gaspé
A native of Causapscal in the Matapedia Valley, Jean-François Bérubé leads a productive career that mixes commercial photography with teaching as well as purely artistic research work.
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Kahem Collective in Grande-Vallée
The Kahem photographers’ association is based on an exchange of ideas and reflection about the practice of documentary photography.
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Kitra Cahana in Matapedia
Kitra Cahana is a documentary and fine-art photographer whose work explores important social, anthropological, and spiritual themes.
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Laurent Villeret in Marsoui
Laurent Villeret discovered photography in his high school’s black-and-white photo lab.
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Léo Delafontaine at Cap-Chat
Born in 1984 in Rouen, France. Since earning degrees in photography and French literature, Léo Delafontaine has devoted himself for a number of years to documentary photography.
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Linda Rutenberg in Gaspé
For the past 30 years, Linda Rutenberg’s enduring passion has been to create extraordinary photographic images.
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Maryse Goudreau at Carleton-sur-Mer
Maryse Goudreau lives and works in Escuminac. Photography constitutes a starting point in her work.
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Michael Flomen in Maria
Michael Flomen was born in Montreal in 1952.
The best time to view this installation is at dusk and during the night. This is time when the actual photogrammes were made and when the fireflies come out to flash their light.
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Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras in Percé (Bonaventure Island)
Living and working in Montreal, Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras join their efforts in producing photographic works that inspire and bear witness to social realities.
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Rozenn Quéré and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh in Paspébiac
With “Possible and Imaginary Lives”, Rozenn Quéré and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh experimented at the place where their photographic worlds meet: they present a rereading of a family photo archive from the perspective of its narrative and poetic possibilities.
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Rina Vukobratovic in Chandler
Rina Vukobratovic is a photographer and visual artist currently living in Serbia, with a master’s degree in fine arts from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
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Gaspésiennes at Cap-Chat (2012)
Rencontres pays tribute through the: "Gaspsiennes" project to the Gaspesian women who have contributed to the development of the area and to those who are building the Gaspé of today and tomorrow.
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