Everything starts with the mountain and the quest to capture it in a photograph. Iris Hutegger and Xavier Dauny employ a traditional gelatin silver process to create their works. However, this quality of the familiar is broken either with embroidery or perspective of the shot. This metamorphosis conceives another vision of the landscape, poetic and sensitive, fed by reflection and imagination. Both artists work with rigorous frameworks of creative protocol, devoting lengths of time to …

This autumn, the BnF (the French national Library) will hold a major exhibition, "Paysage français", une aventure photographique, 1984-2017, where two photographers of the gallery will show their works. Xavier Dauny, with his series Pylônes, methodically explores our environment and the traces left by human on the natural landscape. Guillaume Martial, who won the HSBC Prize in 2015, exposes "Parade", a series realized within the mission France(s) Territoire liq…

Curated by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Drive-In is an exhibition about cars, showing the approach of this subject by numerous photographers, from the fifties to nowadays. When Elliott Erwitt, during and after the depression era, photographed those rolling dreams with his candid sense of humor and irony, cars, especially the very large and imposing ones, were already a landmark in the American landscape. In the early fifties, when Swiss photographer Robert Frank, thanks to a Guggenhei…