Taormina -Photographs taken by Agnès Jaoui
Artistic approach
Photographing means a lot to me. For the past five or six decades, I have been exploring the human and geographical boundaries of the world around me.
I photograph, which means that I am on a quest. Through the daily life of my contemporaries that I visit, I try to reveal their uncertainties and the hidden connections between them, themselves and their environment.
It is the « in between" that interests me; the fault that is also a passage, the interval, the gap where the light transits. The thread that links, despite everything, life and death, old age and the future, the exile and his roots, reason and illness, the jinx and the horizon, the hope of living together and the harshness of the city.
To do this, I need time, so I wander around, as long as it takes; I allow myself to be completely open and surprised so as to capture fragments of it. These images are then linked to my photographic stories.
The dramaturgy I use underlines the moral strength and the capacity of resilience of the people and the situations I photograph.
They act, they do not give up existing, they are facing the situations.
Each encounter is like a reflection of a part of myself.
I consider each new project as an element of a long-term research. It’s a process that I adapted in the nineties and again with the creation of my company ‘Dailylife’.
When I am engaged in a work, I am engaged in the poetic and political process of the work. Photography to me means, illuminating the intimate to try and express the universal.
I present my work through books, exhibitions. monumental installations, digital media, films and recently videomaping;
My party is humanistic rather than social.
Biography
I was born on January 17th, 1960. At the age of four, I received a Polaroid camera as a gift.
The photographic process never ceases to fascinate me. There is this magic at the crossroads of technical excellence and the mystery of restitution that amazes me every time.
After finishing art school in France, my focus turned to the human being and the world that was around me. As a press photographer, I was quickly driven by the desire for commitment and the need to travel. At 25, for 7 years, I documented the actions of Médecins Sans Frontières throughout the world. I documented the lives of the refugees, people facing conflicts, and the victims of natural disasters.
At 33, I created the artistic company Dailylife. Inspired by the FSA* project, I initiated a photographic and anthropological research in Europe and in many other parts of the world. This research still questions the relationship between art and society where. Each project is like a chapter of this long-term exploration.
In more than 80 countries, I have explored the issues of longevity, migration, gender, inequality, poverty, and adolescence. Today my focus is on humans and nature.
My work is presented in books, installations, photographic films, interactive works, and now video mapping.
Through Dailylife, I have responded to commissions from cultural institutions such as the European Capitals of Culture (Lille and Cork), the British Council, the French Institute, European and international institutions and art centers.
*(Farm Security Administration Project)
CV
CARL CORDONNIER
Photographer, director, visual artist
AWARD
2017 Winner of the Pôle Média Grand Paris
2012 Tird Prize of the Internaitonal triennial of the political poster, Mons-Belgium.
1995 AJE European Journalism Prize shared with Adam Michnik Director of Gazeta Wyborzka and founder of Solidarnosc
ACQUISITIONS
British Council, European Union, Trinity House, London, Dance City Newcastle, MEL, Lille 2004, Lille 3000, European Ecoomic adn Social Comittee,
TRAINING
2021 Community manager
2020, Video Mapping, Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Lille.
2019, Documentary writing, Eurodoc, Lille.
2017, New Media and VR, Pôle Média Grand Paris, Paris.
2016, New writing and Webdocumentary, Pictanovo, Lille.
1993, Photography, and writing, Centre de Formation des Journalistes, Paris.
1993, Photography - Ecole Louis Lumière, Paris.
1982/1983, Art School, Boulogne-Sur-Mer.
1978 /979, Art School in Tourcoing - Lille 3 University.
Spoken languages :
French, English, Portuguese, German, Russian (enough to travel)
MISCELLANEOUS
Founder and artistic director of the company Dailylife since 1993
Member of the Jury of New Medias of Pictanovo
Speaker at the University of Valenciennes and University of Lille
Photo workshop of the university Lille 2 from 1993 to 1996
Photographer in charge of exhibitions at Médecins Sans Frontières from 1990 -1993
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Flow - Ephemeral artistic installation at the tip of Le Hourdel
2021 Flow - Exhibition at the Art Center of Ponthoile
2021 Aider à Coeur à Corps et à cris - Maison des aidants Carvin, Espace Annie Girardot Le cateau
2021 Soul of the Woods - Monumental installation - Mosaïc garden - Houplin Ancoisne
2020 Soul of the Woods - Monumental installation - Mosaïc garden - Houplin Ancoisne
2020 I still exist - Projection of film - Maison d'Aloïs Bergues, Maison des Aidants de Lille et Roubaix, Fédération Soutenir les aidants, Maison Annie Girardot, Le Cateau Hospital
2019 Soul of the Woods - Monumental installation - Commissioned by Mosaic garden - Houplin Ancoisne and Lille 3000 Eldorado
2018 I still exist - Multimedia project - Public projections in Dunkirk, Le Cateau, Douai, Arras, Bailleul, Lille, Lyon, Machida, Tokyo, Witten University, Lille University, Denver Colorado
2018 Vote for me - Political poster campaign with marganilised groups
2017 Draw the Republic, Edition and installation in public space and social centers in Caudry, Cambrai, Beauvois en cambres
2016 Ikwal, Digital work, films and interactive website, Lille
2016 vote for me - first edition - Exhibition, Book -Cambrésis, Saint Quentin, Clermont de l'Oise, Abbeville at Garopole and at the Soleil Levant social center and Lille Quartier Bois Blanc
2015 Unveiled Horizons - Caudry
2014 The Many colours of Tuberculosis, Multimedia work (book, exhibition, film) distributed in Europe, Russia, Central Asia by the WHO
2014 A deux c'est merveilleux - Poster exhibition, Lycée Verte Feuille - Saint André
2014 E=MC2 - Permanent monumental photographic installation of Baggio high school in Lille.
2013 Horizons unveiled - Multmedia work (Installation "in situ", web application, collaborative site) Dunkirk Regional Capital of Culture, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Tangier, Tianjin, Glasgow, Cork, Dar Es Salam, Raismes, Caudry, Le Cateau.
2012 Festival des Transphotographiques in Lille, Ministry of Health in Madrid, France Alzheimer Paris.
2011 Dunkerque Esplanade, Boulogne-Sur-Mer Library and seafront t, La Rochelle at the Sunnyside of he doc tFestival, Caudry at the Lace Museum, Cork at the Midsummer Festival, Tangier at the French Institute. Matisse museum, www.horizonsdevoiles.com
2010 Vote for me, Installation of political posters, book and blog.
2010 Reflets d’adolescence - Reflections of adolescence, Exhibition, edition theater the Grand Bleu Lille, high school Nordover, Dunkirk
2010 La fleur de l'âge - Photography and installation on the facade of the residence les Tilleuls in Beuvry and gable of the national road.
The garden dwellers, (les habitants du jardin) Book object. Creativ partnership North East - UK
The wings of art exhibition - Mdawi Art gallery - Tanzania.
2012 The Ride - Exhibition and film Castle Hill Hospital - Hull - UK
Vote for me, Installation of political posters, book and blog. Fnac galleries in Lille and Paris, the Condition Publique in Roubaix, the Prato theater, the headquarters of the Department of the North, the maisons Folie of Mons in Belgium and Lille Moulin, the social centers of Louvroil, Beauvois, Le Quesnoy, Cambrai, Bauvin city hall, the park of the city hall in Tourcoing, the social center of Roubaix.
Posters rewarded by a third prize of the Triennale of the political poster in Mons in Belgium and censured by the city hall of Lille because of a poster of one of the protagonists. http://sijetaiscandidat.canalblog.com
Leaving, Limbo, Landing, Photographic installation and performance on the site of the Olympic Games in London and reproduction of the images on the costumes of the dancers during the events related to the Olympics.
The eye, the head and the heart, Residence Les Tilleuls, Beuvry.
2011 L'université à première vue, Installation, University of Lille
Mami, Installation, performance, film. Béthune 2011, Regional Capital of Culture, Hauts de France Region, Théâtre municipal de Béthune.
Je te connais tu me reconnais, Temporary exhibition in the living spaces of the retirement home.
2010 Etre d'ici : Monumental installation, edition. Valenciennes, Regional Capital of Culture 2011
MIM, Installation, film. Hauts de France region, Duo/Solo de Saint Louis festival, Théâtre le Grand Bleu, Lille.
Midsummer night's dream in Moulin. Installation, performance. Maison Folie de Moulin.
PMI, Installation, Edition. PMI in Ferrière la Grande.
2009 Flashmots, Intervention, film, The city of Wattrelos, the College Pablo Neruda.
2008 Dancing the world. Installation, monumental presented on the facade of the choreographic center Dance City. Animation film
2007 You me and TB : Multimedia work (exhibition, edition and photographic film of 10') - Berlin
2007 Nocturnes, Installation and projection of 4 photographic films in Lille, at the Grand Bleu theater in Katowice, Poland, Roubaix, Flekkefjord in Norway, Abej Lille.Grand Bleu, installation, projection and live concert, Festival Planetado, Katowice, Festival Rondo Stucki Katowice, La condition publique Roubaix.
Living Europe, European Economic and Social Committee
2006 Europeans on the move: Book, exhibition, Lille Grand Palais. European Commission, Brussels.
Les funambules, Installation, film 10'. Espace Pignon, Lille Bois Blanc, the façade of the Halle de la Glisse in Lille Sud, the skating rink in Wasquehal, the Grand Bleu theater, the museum of popular traditions in Wattrelos, the youth center in Roubaix, the Mosaïc social center in Lille Fives, the children's house of the navy in Boulogne-Sur-mer, the ferme d'en Haut in Villeneuve d'Ascq, the city of Flekkefjord in Norway.
I'll be doing this sky in dreams to night. Exhibition and book. Arts Council Scotland. Glasgow
2005 Etranges chroniques, multimedia work: Exhibition, Calais social center, Boulogne-Sur-Mer media library, La Plateforme Dunkerque gallery, Robespierre gallery, Grande Synthe, Château Coquelle, Dunkerque.
2002 Emigrance, Multimedia work. (Installation, book, film, radio) Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture - Maisons Folie de Lille, Maubeuge, Dunkerque, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Jardin Mosaïc, Cork European Capital of Culture, Galeries Fnac Lille, Paris, Maison Régionale de l'environnement Lille
2003 A notre avis, Exhibition and 6 Films of 10' presented in the participating establishments, at the Théâtre le Grand Bleu, at the headquarters of the Département du Nord and the colleges of Lille Bois Blanc, Lille Fives, Maubeuge, Roubaix, Tourcoing.
Speakers - British Council Brussels
2002 Petits messages du grand âge, Multimedia work (Book, exhibition, film) CCAS de la Ville de Grande Synthe.
2001 Hors Du Temps : Exhibition - Hospital of Bailleul
2000 New Young European, collaborative multimedia work (Installation, book, film) Le Petit Château in Brussels (largest asylum seeker center in Europe), Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, London City Hall inaugurated by Ken Livingston, Cardiff Media Library, Cork post office and pedestrian streets, Cork European Capital of Culture 2005, Nuevo Ministerios Metro station in Madrid, Krakow media library, Grand Bleu theater in Lille, a vocational high school in Rome, the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Welsh center, Brussels.
1997 Women Journalists, Lisbon Association of European Journalists, Lille Figra Press Club, International Festival of News Reporting
1997 Teenagers, Exhibition, film. Roubaix, Malmö, Leipzig, Tallinn, Sofia, Seville, Katowice.
Festival Planetado, Le Grand Bleu, Région Nord Pas de Calais, European Commission, European schools, Lille, Roubaix inaugurated by Jena Luc Mélanchon, Galerie Stuki Katowice, Malmö, Tallinn, Sources d'Europe Paris La défense. Festival Transphotographiques Lille.
1998 Shelter, Permanent exhibition in the accommodation and reception centers of the Lille metropolis of the Abej
1996 Alzheimer Visages pour Mémoire Sweden, Germany, Greece, Ireland, France, Spain, CHRU Lille, CMMF of Bailleul, University of Lund, Berlin, Southbank in London, Andalusian Center of Photography, Almeria, Museum of Photography Thessaloniki, French Institute of Dublin,
Villages of Europe, the artisans of democracy, Sources of Europe, Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris; Committee of the Regions, European Parliament Brussels, Fnac Lille galleries. Documentary film of 52' produced by France 3.
1995 Au fil de la Paix, Exhibition - Archives du Monde du travail - Roubaix
1995 Jeanne Calment. Doyenne of humanity. Edition, exhibition. Photographs of the last three years of Jeanne Calment's life
1993 Chroniques du 2e siècle, avoir 100 ans en Europe, Exhibition, Book. Fnac galleries in France, European Commission, Arles, Palais des Nations in Geneva on the occasion of the international year of the elderly, Paris, Fontevraud, Lyon, Mazamet,
1991 Sans Frontières Exhibition in the Fnac Galleries in France with Doctors in Borders,
and the network of Youth Information Centers in the North of France.
COMMISSIONS
2014, If spaghetti fell upon my head, Photographic film 20', Arts Council England, Crook primary School.
2014, Ten years of the ENM Portraits of ten activities for the 10 years of the Metropolitan Natural Space.
Commissioned by the European Metropolis of Lille. Distribution: book for the ten years of the Espace Naturel Métropolitain.
2014, The Many colours of Tuberculosis , Multimedia work (travelling exhibition, book and 5' photographic film made in Uzbekistan and the Netherlands) Commissioned by WHO Europe. Distribution: Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
2012, Leaving, Limbo, Landing, Photographs, performance. Limbo questions the identity of migrants in London's East End through a series of portraits inspiring a choreography for the London Olympics. https://youtu.be/I6TOJVUXEWU
Support : Caroline Bowditch, Choreographer, East London Dance, London Olympics
Dissemination: Photographic installation, on the site of the London Olympics and reproduction of the images on the dancers' costumes during the events related to the Olympics.
2011, My name is... 5' photographic film commissioned by the WHO on resistant forms of tuberculosis
Distribution: WHO Europe website
2011, The university at first sight, Installation, Edition. Photographic and sociological research questioning university failure during the first year. Texts Catherine Baichère, Laboratoire Clersé
Supported by the University of Lille and Acsé. Distribution: University of Lille.
2010, Etre d'ici : Installation, edition. Portraits of ten migrants settled in Valenciennes.
Commissioned by : Valenciennes, Regional Capital of Culture 2011
Texts Luc Hossepied.
Diffusion : Monumental installation on the main square of Valenciennes. Edition. 24 pages.
2009, Antipodes, Photographic story with a nurse on tour in the isolated areas of Noumea.
Self-produced project
2007, Living Europe, Book. Cross portraits of employees, leaders and volunteers in the 27 countries of the European Union.
Texts, Penny Rae.
Commissioned by the EESC, European Economic and Social Committee.
Distribution: Book in 3 languages and exhibition at the EESC in Brussels inaugurated by Jacques Delors.
2007, You me and TB : Multimedia work (exhibition, edition and 10' photographic film) Commissioned by WHO Europe and realized with patients in Riga, Brussels, London, Lisbon, Paris, Bucharest. Texts, Penny Rae and Tamsin Rose, Direction, Philippe Hollevout Diffusion: Launch in Berlin during the conference of health ministers from 45 countries.
2006, European on the move: Book, exhibition. Stories of economic migrants in Poland, France, Czech Republic, Hungary. Texts, Tracy Dafter.
Commissioned by the European Union for the European Year of Mobility.
Distribution: Book 128 pages. Exhibition, Lille Grand Palais. European Commission, Brussels.
2003, Conversations, When the Word is Staged, Speaker is a series of photographs of famous and anonymous European speakers taken during conferences in European institutions.
Commissioned by the British Council in Brussels and published in the British Council publications.
2003, A notre avis, Exhibition, Series of 6 Films of 10', The project questions the daily life of schoolchildren in 6 establishments of the Department of North. Dunkerque, Lille Bois Blanc, Lille Fives, Maubeuge, Roubaix, Tourcoing.
With François Daumerie - Editing Jean-Marc Melloni.
Commissioned by the Département du Nord,
Diffusion: in the participating establishments, at the Théâtre le Grand Bleu, at the headquarters of the Département du Nord.
2002, Petits messages du grand âge, Multimedia work (Book, exhibition, film) portraits of elderly people in a residence of Grande-Synthe interviewed by children of the city.
Texts, Bertrand Verfaillie - Editing, Jean-Marc Melloni.
Commissioned by the CCAS of the city of Grande Synthe.
2000, Tacis The photographs of the Link project explore the cultural, economic and social relations between Europeans and Russian residents of the former Soviet bloc countries. Russia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Transnistria, Georgia.
Commissioned by the European Union, Tacis program. Phare
Distribution: Exhibition and CD ROM presented in the countries visited by the European Commission.
2000, Hors Du Temps, photographic essay on the transition of psychiatric care at the EPSM des Flandres in Bailleul. Work of two years in the different units. Diffusion: presentation "In Situ" in a care unit transformed into a gallery for six months and at the University of Lille. Curator of the exhibition by Annick de Ville.
1998 Sur les voies du Dialogue. Meetings of mediators of the selective sorting among the inhabitants of Bordeaux. Urban Community of Bordeaux. Preface by Alain Juppé.
1995-1997 Jeanne Calment. Doyenne of humanity. Edition, exhibition. Photographs of the last three years of Jeanne Calment's life at regular intervals.
Commissioned by the Fondation Ipsen. Distribution: Fondation Ipsen, Arles
1995, Au fil de la Paix, The exhibition addresses the question of memory and war through the crossed portraits of former soldiers in the twin textile cities of Roubaix, Mônchengladbach in Germany and Bradford in the North of England. A Polish soldier who liberated Dunkirk, a Harki and a Wechmacht rifleman engaged in Italy.
Commissioned by the city of Roubaix and produced with the photographer Eric Lebrun, the film was shown in the archives of the Monde du Travail in Roubaix.
FILMS
PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS
J'existe encore, Aider à Corps, à Coeur et à cris - Dailylife, Département du Nord, Fédération des Plateformes de Répit
La vie en bleu - Portraits of women in integration in Le Cateau - 6' Dailylife, Corif, Département du Nord
J'existe encore - Web series of 10 photographic films on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
105' - Production Dailylife, Pictanovo
La Nouvelle vie - Film with women in integration, 5' - Dailylife, Corif
Numériqu'elles - Webseries on women and digital technology 10 x 4' - Dailylife, Corif
Nocturnes - Webseries of four films about life through the night with homeless people - France, Norway, Poland, 4 x 5' - Dailylife, Crrav
Etranges Chroniques - Web series with young migrants on the Hauts de France coast - 6 x 5' - Dailylife, Crrav
Horizons dévoilés - Web series about women in port cities - 8 x 5'- Dailylife
Déblogage - Animated film about young people and the blogging phenomenon, 10' - Dailylife, Lille 3000
New Young Europeans, Film about young migrants in Europe, 20' - Dailylife, British Council Brussels
Petits messages du Grand âge, Intergenerational film 6' - Dailylife, Grande Synthe
DOCUMENTARIES
The Ride - Life interupted- Two women cycle 1600 km during 15 days between two chemotherapy sessions. 45' - Directed by Carl Cordonnier - Edited by Florian Nonenmachern-Autoproduct
Passe le Mic - Film on freedom of expression, 12' - La Fabrique, Pictanovo
Le combat d'Arthur - Journey of a young Chechen, 6' - Dailylife, Lille 2004
Mami - Bethune Regional Capital of Culture, Editing Samuel Gantier-10' Dailylife
FlashMots - Animation film, 6' - Montage Philippe Hollevout - Dailylife
The Many colours of Tuberculosis, 5' - Dailylife, OMS Europe
My name is, Tuberculosis in Europe - 5' Dailylife, WHO Europe
IKWAL - Equality between girls and boys in secondary schools - 12' - Dailylife, PictanovoCorif, Planning Familial,
And if we danced around the world - Dance and social inclusion - 12', Dailylife, Dance City, Newcastle
You Me and TB - Portraits of patients in Europe - 12' Dailylife, WHO Europe
Journeys in Between - Migrants' stories - 10' Dailylife, British Council Brussels
A Notre Avis : Web series of 6 x 5' on schoolchildren in six schools in the North - Dailylife, Conseil Général du Nord
Hong Kong: Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong - Medecins Sans Frontieres-France 3 - 26
Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees from Burma - Médecins Sans Frontières-France 3 - 26'.
BOOKS
Draw the Republic - Volume 2 - Cover by François Boucq modified-Dailylife
Dessine la République Tome 1 - Cover by Fançois Boucq-Dailylife
I still exist - Dailylife
The many colours of tuberculosis - Dailylife, OMS Europe
The garden dwellers - Book Object - Dailylife, Creative Partnership UK
I love Mondays - Children and dance - Dailylife, Creative Partnership Newcastle
Elect Me - Political poster book - Dailylife
Living Europe - Portraits of Europeans in the 27 European countries - Texts by Penny Rae
French ,English, German, European Economic and Social Committee - Dailylife
Europeans on the move - Dailylife, European Commission
I' ll be doing this sky in my dreams to night - Art in hospital - Dailylife
Emigrance - Dailylife
Little messages from old age - Dailylife
Alzheimer - faces for memory - Dailylife
On the path of dialogue - Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux
Villages of Europe, Mayors in the countryside, The artisans of democracy - Dailylife - Committee of the Regions
Chronicles of the 2nd century - Turning 100 in Europe - Autrement
The 120 years of Jeanne Calment - Stock
Armenia la Fracture - Stock
RADIO PROGRAMS
Emigrance - Radio chronicle on France Bleu, directed by Yves Renard, produced by Dailylife, Lille 2004
Weekly chronicles with Régis Picard on Radio France for a year and a half with testomonies of MSF volonteers
DIGITAL WORKS
Soul of the Woods - Interactive collaborative project on Instagram - Dailylife
I Still Exist - Application for tablet and website - Dailylife, Urbilog
Equal - Application and website - Dailylife, Corif, Urbilog
Unveiled Horizons - Application for tablet and website - Dailylife, Corif, Keblow
Tacis 2000 - European Union - Dailylife
MAPPING
Flow Le Hourdel - work In progress