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Journées photographiques de Bienne
Bieler Fototage
Biel/Bienne Festival of photography
3.–26.5.2024
Journées photographiques de Bienne, 3.–26.5.2024

Commonplaces, 3.–26.5.2024

In an era when images are more and more mobile, immersive, multiplied and fragmented and the gaze is determined by screens and online platforms, the 27th edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography examines the banal and the familiar as a form of resistance to the proliferation of sensationalist images that constantly impose themselves in our lives. The festival presents a generation of emerging photographers who subtly shed light on phenomena affecting and even transforming our environment and our daily life. Phenomena that we can miss now that so many demands are made on our gaze that it is almost blinded.

An image of something banal runs counter to the sensational. It encourages us to observe what we perceive as normal and ordinary. A photograph of the banal may be grounded in our daily life and tied to a world that seems recognizable, comprehensible and rational, yet it also invites doubt. It invites us to think about reality through its frame. Against “loud” images that impose themselves by their immediacy and emotional power, the photos exhibited this year are constructed in a slowed down way. And there is in them a kind of delicacy of subject and meaning. Discreetly and poetically, they reveal a world in continuous transition. In a society in which the paradigm of contemporary vision is the digital screen, this year’s edition aims to lead our gaze to take a second look at the world around us and to listen to what it whispers.

Program and events

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Current
3.—3.5.24, 18:00 (fr/de/en) / Photoforum Pasquart

Opening of the 27th Editition

Join us for the opening of the 27th Edition!

4.—26.5.24, 11:00 (fr/de/en)

Exhibitions

27th Edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography.
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Microsculpture
Levon Biss
Rendez-vous
Caroline Minjolle
Les Dérangeuses
Catherine Gfeller
Moi avec des filles
Romain Mader
Salaryman
Pawel Jaszczuk
Magnum
Werner Bischof
Agra
Ursula Mumenthaler
Piegeception
Andrea Marioni
Gsüün, Jumeaux, une lubie de la nature
Barbara Davatz
Social Printer
Romain Roucoules