The earliest AI-driven image capture techniques, Photaumnales, traverse 200 years of photography and cast a forward gaze on its evolution, in their 23rd edition titled Photography, and after ?. The festival spreads 52 exhibitions across 37 sites in the Hauts-de-France region, often outdoors and open to all.
In Beauvais, the Quadrilatère brings together strikingly reimagined photographic processes—unconventional, dynamic or in relief—juxtaposed with a series of archives from Beauvaisian photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Gare Park becomes a traveler, through Patrick Waterhouse’s exhibitions in collaboration with an Aboriginal community from central Australia, Henrique Fujikawa’s work on the Japanese diaspora in Brazil, Masha Sviatahor’s study of archives drawn from Soviet propaganda, and Caroline Ruffault’s photographs altered by the polluted waters of shale-oil production in Texas.
In the surrounding towns, don’t miss New Farmer, a destabilizing project by Bruce Eesly on the Green Revolution shown in La Neuville-en-Hez, nor the exhibition Chin Up ! in which Hélène Jayet tackles the sensitive issue of textured hair and its perception.
Photaumnales, à Beauvais et dans les Hauts-de-France. Jusqu’au 29 novembre 2026. photaumnales.fr
➤ Article paru dans le magazine GEO HS n°135, “Chats : comment ils nous ont domestiqués”, d’octobre-novembre 2026.
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