D-Day Remembered
Eisenhower Museum, Abilene (Kansas) — June 1 / November 11, 2024
Forty black-and-white photos of the D-Day commemorations in Normandy taken between the 50th anniversary in 1994 and the 75th in 2019. Since he was neither a journalist nor a reporter — and therefore lacked accreditation to attend the official ceremonies — Fabrice Bourge documented another side of these events. Influenced by the French photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson, he focused on observing the crowds and the individuals participating in these commemorations. This perhaps reveals what the official photographs do not show — a more intimate side, with each image telling its own story.
Seven Locations with my Seven-League Boots
Saint-Aubin-sur-mer (Normandy) — October 8 / November 6, 2022
The photographer takes us on a journey through seven different regions, via thirty-five black-and-white film prints. Whether natural landscapes, urban scenes, scenes of daily life, or portraits, most of these images were captured using a large-format view camera between 1993 and 2019, during travels across four continents.
Beautiful Getaways
Caen (Normandy) — January 4 / February 1, 2011
This small exhibition, featuring about ten photographs, humbly invites visitors to dream and embark on an inner journey.
Cows & Boys
Saint-Aubin-sur-mer (Normandy) — May 15 / May 29, 2010
From 1996 to 2000, in Emory, Texas, and later in Natchez, Mississippi, Fabrice Bourge attended livestock auctions. With his Leica in hand, he spent several afternoons photographing, in black and white, a facet of the lives of today’s cowboys.
Louisiana from within
Verson (Normandy) — March 19 / March 31, 2001
Vire (Normandy) — April 20 / May 20, 2001
Since his first trip in 1987, Fabrice Bourge has been visiting Louisiana regularly, where he photographs — often instinctively — the environment and the daily lives of its inhabitants.
This long-term project is influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was often interested in what lay behind the scenes, and by Walker Evans, who photographed poverty in the southern states of the United States in the 1930s.
A view on Gastronomy (Stereophotographs)
Dozulé (Normandy) — September 5 / September 20, 1998
Caen (Normandy) — October 5 / October 23, 1998
This exhibition of stereophotographs focuses on the culinary arts; it takes the viewer from the garden to the table, via the kitchen.
Each stereophotograph is presented as a pair of large-format complementary prints. The quality of the prints allows viewers to perceive not only the three-dimensionality but also the “depth” of the subjects.