TALK

Moderator

Marc Prüst is a photography curator, editor, and researcher. His work focuses on the visual economy and the circulation of photography across platforms such as print, social media, museums, and public spaces. His ongoing PhD research at the University of Groningen explores the structure of the photographic industry. In parallel, he curates exhibitions for museums, festivals, and galleries, and serves as curator of De Gang, a non-profit photo gallery in Haarlem. He collaborates closely with photographers on book projects and teaches Visual Economy of Art Photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. In 2024, he published Edit Your Story as part of the Tell Your Story project with Forhanna, followed by a second volume in 2025.

LesAssociés

Born in 1983, French-German artist Alexandre Dupeyron explores photography as a poetic, evocative language that seeks what trembles beneath the surface of reality. His work questions our fragility and metaphysical dimension. Since 2016, it has extended into performance, often in collaboration with contemporary musicians, fostering cross-disciplinary dialogues between sound, image and even dance. In 2025, he created his first sculpture, Janus, continuing to push the boundaries of his practice.

DOCKS

Aliona Kardash (1990) is a documentary photographer from Siberia, based in Hamburg, Germany. She is a member of DOCKS collective. Aliona holds a BA in Journalism from the Tomsk State University in Russia and MA of the FH Dortmund, Germany. A recipient of the STERN Stipendium 2022, she worked for a year as a photojournalist for Stern Magazine. In her photographical practice she often refers to her own background in search of universal patterns in very personal stories.

MYOP

Agnès Dherbeys is a documentary photographer, born in South Korea and raised in France. She used to be based in Bangkok for 12 years, covering the region for international press (Times, NYT, le Monde). Since she is back in Paris, Dherbeys’s personal work focuses on the questions of memory and women issues. She is a member of MYOP agency.

She is the recipient of many awards, including the OPC Robert Capa Gold Medal, a World Press Photo, the CNAP Photography grant, the BNF Grande Commande).

Tendance Floue

Grégoire Eloy has been a documentary photographer since 2003. For ten years, he traveled through Eastern Europe and Central Asia for projects exploring the legacy of the Soviet era. Since 2010, he has been focusing on material sciences and our relationship with the environment through artistic residencies in natural settings. He was awarded the Bourse du Talent in 2004 and the Niépce Prize by Gens d’Images in 2021. He has been a member of the Tendance Floue collective since 2016.

VII

Ilvy Njiokiktjien is a photojournalist, filmmaker, podcast host and educator who has been creating and sharing stories for almost two decades. She is based in Utrecht, the Netherland, is a contributing photographer to VII Foundation and is a Canon Ambassador. Njiokiktjien is committed to documenting the social and political issues that shape our world. Her work is characterized by a sensitive eye and a compassionate and personal relationship with her subjects. For nearly 2 decades, she chronicled South Africa’s first post-apartheid generation. Njiokiktjien became intrigued by these young adults and portrayed them in her own, personal and intimate style. “Equality is there on paper, but a majority of young people believes white South Africans still have better chances, as the legacy of centuries of inequality is still there.” The result is the project Born Free – Mandela’s Generation of Hope, which sparked a documentary, an interactive website, a book, feature articles, and a traveling exhibition.

Inland

Mélanie Wenger is a documentary photographer and a storyteller. She develops long-term documentary stories exploring photography, sound and video. Her work explores human nature and captures the intimate connection between man and nature. She collaborates with international magazines such as National Geographic, Stern, Le Figaro Magazine and Geo among others.

 In her early career, she worked as a news photographer in Belgium for a local agency. She then turned to long-term documentary focusing on human rights, migration and sexual violence issues in Libya, Cameroun, the Philippines, Columbia and Mexico.

In 2017, she won the HSBC Photography Prize for a long-term documentary series about the intimate life of an elderly woman living in an isolated part of Brittany: Marie-Claude. Her monograph Marie-Claude was published by Actes Sud the same year.

She participated in LensCulture Emerging Talent 2018 and at her work appeared in the Visa pour l'image festival 2019. Her work as been exhibited at the Mills Pond Gallery in New York, in the Ester Woerderoff Gallery in Paris and in other photographic museums in Europe.  

Inland

Jef Bonifacino (born 1977) is based in Pau, France. He develops long-term projects at the intersection of art and documentary, focusing on social and environmental themes. His work is rooted in the notion of territory: he connects different spaces to question humanity’s relationship with its environment and history.