Photosensibles — A report on the workshops held by 5 photographers on their approach to photography

The 2021-2022 cultural season marked the first collaboration between the Pas-de-Calais department and the Institute for Photography. Between past, present and future, this collaboration focused on questions about our archive images – both individual and collective – and the human and environmental realities of this territory.

The project was carried out at the Bellimont (Pernes), Albert Camus (Outreau) and Jacques Brel (Fruges) secondary schools, at the Centre d'Accueil et d'Examen des Situations in Nédonchel, and in three social and judiciary structures in Saint-Omer (the Plateforme d'aide aux aidants ELSAA, the Maison des Adolescents Littoral and the Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse) that photographers Catherine Duverger, Matthieu Gafsou, Cédric Gerbehaye, Hugo Clarence Janody and Lionel Pralus invited the people involved to use images – their own and those of others – to express in a different way what intimately moves them.

This publication looks at the stories told, imagined and sometimes hoped through five distinctive graphic objects.

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Welcome to "Porte de Valenciennes" — A welcome kit for the new inhabitants

In 2020, as part of the urban renewal of the Porte de Valenciennes district in Lille, SPL Euralille invited us to create a unique graphic object to present the district to new residents.

We decided to propose a box containing multiple documents. These documents take the form of graphic transcriptions of urban landscapes and contemporary and historical architectural details (before and after their rehabilitation).

In addition to a poster/guide map, 10 enigmatic postcards featuring hybrid architecture offer a glimpse of the district's key (but sometimes little-known) places, serving as invitations to explore the city.

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Bon Voyage to Roubaix — An invitation to discover the city's emblematic places through the sensitive prism of the inhabitants' experience

The Lille World Design Capital 2020 event was an opportunity to collaborate with Ville Renouvelée and lille—design to rethink the transitional space that is the car park at Roubaix train station.

In association with the Graphites collective (Karen Fioravanti, Camille Hamard and Chloé Wizla), our proposal is based on a simple idea: to encourage users to discover the city as soon as they get out of their car, through the voices of its inhabitants.

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Confidence — An edition halfway between a restitution and a piece of art

During his residency at the Ferme du Bois Briard in Courcouronnes, Julien Levesque intervened, following our suggestion and with our complicity, on the running offset presses at the Havet printing factory in Sailly-sur-la-Lys, by adding different inks directly to a group of colours to produce an edition that we had designed specifically for this experiment.

It is a hybrid documentary object, halfway between a restitution and a work of art, composed of images and fragments retracing the course of his year of creation.

300 copies of this edition, unique occurrences reflecting as many micro-variations, were produced, then exhibited and distributed to mark the end of Julien Levesque's residency.

More than a catalogue, this publishing object can be seen as a multiple that develops, in the age of networks, the hypothesis of repetition and the original, leading to a reflection on the book-making process.

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Notebook: The Urban Project — An exercise book on urban renewal

With this notebook, IREV, the Hauts-de-France urban planning resource centre, aims to compile the methodological lessons learned from conducting urban projects and encourage their application through exercises specifically designed for this edition.

This document serves as a tool for urban renewal project managers and their partners.

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