EN FR
(Exposition)
FIRST GENERATION
Carolina Arantes
Curation : Denise Camargo, Azu Nwagbogu
Partenaires : LEBOLABO, Hahnemühle, L’IMAGIER,
PH Distrib, Fisheye, FLASH, Fondation Lagardère
Comissaires: Denise Camargo e Azu Nwagbogu
Réalisation sonore: Isadora Dartial
Mix: Sulivan Clabaut (studio All Sound)
Design Graphique: Darkon Vroque
Textes: Denise Camargo e Maboula Soumahoro
Ce projet a reçu la bourse photographique de Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère et le Prix Fire-Cracker
First Generation is a documentary photography project focused on the identity of French women of African descent born in France. Built over eight years of encounters and trust, the project combines images and testimonies to tell the personal stories of these women and explore their place within contemporary French identity.
Between African heritage and European culture, immigration and citizenship, this generation builds a bicultural identity shaped by questions of transmission, belonging, and representation. Through this work of listening, Carolina Arantes also reflects on her own experience of displacement and non-belonging between Brazil and France.
La Kabine partners with the FLASH Festival to support the exhibition’s circulation between September and November 2026.
(A) Le printemps
DANS MA CHAIR, UN PAYS
Nathyfa Michel
Partenaires : La SAIF, Dahinden
In My Flesh, a Country explores what it means to “belong” beyond borders, in a world shaped by colonisation, métissage, and diasporas.
Faced with the disappearance of ancestors and places of origin, the project envisions a living, ever-moving sense of “home,” woven through relationships between bodies, nature, and time. Natural elements—trees, mist, mushrooms, water—become mediators between the visible and the invisible, inviting us to rethink roots and memory as a fluid, resilient network.
The body itself becomes a porous dwelling, a space for transmission and the reinvention of buried narratives.
Excerpt from a text co-written with Eline Gourgues – La Station Culturelle.
(A) Le printemps
(Exposition)
THE TEARS OF MOTHERLAND
Masoumeh Bahrami
Partenaire : Dahinden
2025 Public Prize Winner – Une autre empreinte
Recipient of the Prix Photo Dahinden pour la photographie environnementale, Masoumeh Bahrami documents the gradual disappearance of the Miankaleh wetland, a UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea in Iran.
Weakened by droughts, river diversion, agricultural overexploitation, and years of environmental mismanagement, the region is slowly losing its vital ecological balance.
(A) Le printemps
GUATEMALA,
JUSQU’À CE QUE LE MAÏS REPOUSSE
Lys Arango
Partenaires : Prix photo CCFD-Terre Solidaire, la SAIF,
le fonds de dotation SAKURA
Winner of the CCFD-Terre Solidaire Photo Prize – Jury Prize (SAIF), Lys Arango documents the impact of drought on Mayan communities in Guatemala.
In the “dry corridor,” families survive between malnutrition, exile, and the waiting for rain, while ancestral agricultural knowledge continues to be passed down. The exhibition sheds light on the social and food-related challenges faced by Guatemalan farmers.
(A) Le printemps
(Exposition)
AU-DELÀ DU CIEL
ET DE LA MER
Ismail Abu Hatab
Partenaires : Prix Photo CCFD-Terre Solidaire,
Dahinden
Special Jury Prize – CCFD-Terre Solidaire Photo Prize
CCFD-Terre Solidaire Photo Prize – Special Jury Prize
Ismail Abu Hatab documents the daily lives of displaced families in Gaza, living in makeshift tents between the sea and ongoing bombardments.
Through this series, the Palestinian photographer shows how, despite the war, children continue to play and residents continue to resist erasure and silence. A filmmaker, photographer, and committed educator, Ismail Abu Hatab was working on this project when he was killed on 30 June 2025 during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
(A) Le printemps
CROCODILES
SPIRITUALITY, RITUALS, AND SURVIVAL
IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo
Partenaire : Galerie Christophe Person
From Burkina Faso, Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo documents the spiritual relationship between the inhabitants of Bazoulé and the sacred crocodiles of the lake.
Through this series, he explores the consequences of climate change on this threatened site, now at risk of drying up, and on the transmission of a living spiritual heritage.
(A) Le printemps
(Exposition)
PROCESSIONS
SPIRITUALITY, RITUALS, AND SURVIVAL
IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Arnold Fokam
Partenaire : Galerie Christophe Person
Inspired by Ijaw crocodile crest masks, Arnold Fokam reinterprets the myth of Mami Wata along the banks of the Congo River.
Combining painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, his series Processions explores the links between spirituality, water, and ecological crisis through this tutelary figure of African waters.
(A) Le printemps
HORŠE HÍYYIS
BRÛLAGE CULTUREL MUWEKMA OHLONE –
FEU ET INTENTION À DJERASSI
Kalie Granier
Partenaires : Djerassi, Villa Albertine San Francisco,
Atelier SHLAt the heart of this project lies the cultural burn, or “cultural burning” — in the Chochenyo language: HORŠE HÍYYIS, the “good fire.”
This ancestral practice of the Muwekma Ohlone, an Indigenous people of the San Francisco Bay Area, considers fire as a tool for healing, regeneration, and relationship with the living world. Long criminalised by colonial authorities, these practices are now being revived in response to ecological crises and contemporary megafires.
The images were made on the land of the Djerassi Ranch, where Chochenyo cultural caretakers are reintroducing cultural burning to restore connections to territory and pass on ancestral knowledge.
(A) Le printemps