Lorraine Turci, independent photographic artist since 2019, is in Gambia from April to May 2024. During this period, she is devoting herself to the preparation of an immersive photographic exhibition on Gambian youth. Her meticulous work explores the complex relationships between human beings and their environment, highlighting the interactions between territory, identity, transmission, nature, evolution and preservation.
Lorraine won a major commission from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the French Ministry of Culture, Radioscopie de la France en 2022, and has received support from various grants, including Fluxus Art Projects from the Institut Français, and the Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation. Her artistic career includes residencies in Japan, at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles and in Greenland, testifying to the diversity of her experiences.
As part of this residency, Lorraine Turci is establishing partnerships with institutions such as UNICEF, and is considering collaborations with renowned media. At the same time, she is planning professional workshops in English, creating an enriching opportunity for exchange with the local community.
And to round things off in style, this program is enriched by another artistic experience, as we welcome the International Women Photographers Award ( IWPA) exhibition. This exhibition highlights the work of Lorraine Turci, as well as that of two other award-winners, Lee-Ann Olwage (South Africa) and Luisa Dörr (Brazil). This exhibition, available as part of a tour of the Alliances, is produced in partnership with the Alliance de Ziguinchor and IWPA. This joint initiative underlines our ongoing commitment to the visibility of women photographers. Indeed, we are proud to contribute to showcasing female talent and to offer a diverse and enriching perspective to our audience.
Look forward to a captivating exploration of Gambian youth through the unique eyes of Lorraine Turci. We invite you to follow her journey and the developments of this residency on our website and social networks!
Hokkaido is a vast territory of wintry beauty, with forests, volcanoes, lakes and rugged coastlines. Before Japanese colonisation, it was inhabited by the Ainu people. After a century and a half of assimilation and discrimination, the situation in the country has gradually evolved. What is the identity of this ethnic group today?
Ainu culture doesn’t only belong in museums: thanks to the resilience of its people, it’s alive and kicking and forms a strong identity. Minority cultures are the vector of a diversity that brings a certain form of richness to our globalised planet.
This reflects on what it means to be an Ainu today, between demands and compromises, in the practices of everyday life; it addresses the sense of belonging within a community in the dual process of preserving and reinventing its own culture, following prolonged assimilation that has all but erased its society and language. Stories of activists, artists… and above all, ordinary people. After all, aren’t we all in search of our own identity?
Hokkaido is a vast territory of wintry beauty, with forests, volcanoes, lakes and rugged coastlines. Before Japanese colonisation, it was inhabited by the Ainu people. After a century and a half of assimilation and discrimination, the situation in the country has gradually evolved. What is the identity of this ethnic group today?
Ainu culture doesn’t only belong in museums: thanks to the resilience of its people, it’s alive and kicking and forms a strong identity. Minority cultures are the vector of a diversity that brings a certain form of richness to our globalised planet.
This reflects on what it means to be an Ainu today, between demands and compromises, in the practices of everyday life; it addresses the sense of belonging within a community in the dual process of preserving and reinventing its own culture, following prolonged assimilation that has all but erased its society and language. Stories of activists, artists… and above all, ordinary people. After all, aren’t we all in search of our own identity?
Vague de 12 metres de haut frappant la proue d’un navire dans le passage de Drake, passage qui spare l’extrmit sud de l’Amrique du Sud et l’Antarctique, entre le cap Horn en Terre de Feu et les les Shetland du Sud en Antarctique. C’est une des zones maritimes qui connat les pires conditions mtorologiques au monde, passant par quarantimes rugissants, les cinquantimes hurlants et les soixantimes mugissants. Ocean austral Antarctique 2014.
12 meter high wave hitting the bow of a ship in Drake Passage, which separates the southern tip of South America from Antarctica, between Cape Horn in Tierra del Fuego and the Shetland Islands of South Antarctica. It is one of the maritime areas that experiences the worst weather in the world, roaring forties, screaming fiftieths and blaring sixties. Southern Ocean Antarctica 2014.
Portrait de Lorraine Turci, photographe.
Portrait of Lorraine Turci, photographer.
