Exhibition Details
Launched in 2024, Latitudes is a Fondation d’entreprise Hermès program developed in partnership with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.
It broadens the scope of Immersion, the former French-American photography commission created in 2014 with the same partners, a cross-residency between France and the United States.
The new program supporting contemporary creation takes its name from a geographical concept, affirming its ambition to shed light on artists from scenes that are still underrepresented on the international stage. In practice, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and ICP select a country from which photographers are invited to submit a project. A jury composed of representatives from the three institutions selects the annual laureate.
It broadens the scope of Immersion, the former French-American photography commission created in 2014 with the same partners, a cross-residency between France and the United States.
The new program supporting contemporary creation takes its name from a geographical concept, affirming its ambition to shed light on artists from scenes that are still underrepresented on the international stage. In practice, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and ICP select a country from which photographers are invited to submit a project. A jury composed of representatives from the three institutions selects the annual laureate.
Additional Details
In its current iteration, Latitudes highlights new work by two laureate-artists from Côte d’Ivoire– Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré.
About Nuits Balnéaire
Multidisciplinary artist and poet Nuits Balnéaires was born and raised in Abidjan, into a family with Akan Agni-Bona and Malinké origins. With intimate connections to both peoples’ traditions, culture and spirituality, his work creates a parallel space-time beyond the constraints of geography, while embracing the universality of oceans as the connective tissue between worlds.
About François-Xavier Gbré
Born in 1978 in Lille, France. François-Xavier Gbré lives and works between La Rochelle (France) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).
Steeped in time and geography, Gbré’s work draws on the language of architecture as a witness to memory and social change. From colonial remains to landscapes redefined by current events, Gbré explores territories and revisits History.
Location
International Center of Photography
84 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
Image: photo by Jenna Bascom / courtesy of International Center of Photography