Bernard Descamps I Musée de Grenoble

Where the Wind Blows From April 4 to August 23, 2026, the Grenoble Museum will dedicate an exhibition to the work of Bernard Descamps, featuring around one hundred photographs donated by the artist in 2025, including previously unseen prints. The exhibition, "Bernard Descamps - Where the Wind Blows," invites visitors to follow the photographer's gaze on humanity and its relationship to the world, and to nature in particular, over the past 40 years. Each journey, each destination undertaken since 1974, represents an encounter with the Other, but also a confrontation with oneself. This geographical and personal journey places his work in the history of photography in a unique way: an image of our world conveyed with an economy of means that elevates reality through poetry and, at times, a touch of irony. For him, travel is by no means an end in itself, nor is walking a creative process: it is, above all, the realization of a dream. The image is that of a child discovering Africa in 1991, a country he says he fell in love with. What sustains him daily is, above all, the lives of the men and women he spends time with in the Central African Republic, Mali, and Morocco. Each image serves as an invitation to step aside and preserve this land, whose delicate balance is threatened by the demands of ultra-consumerist globalist policies. https://www.filigranes.com/livre/bern...