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June 2, 2025

PASSAGES – Theme of the 16th edition

Exploring the passage of time, the traces left by encounters, friendship, forgetfulness, and absence.  Between memory and motion, this theme questions our relationship to objects, places, others — and fleeting moments.  PASSAGES is the transition between what was and what is...

Unveiling of the programming of the 15th Rencontres

June 13, 2024

Unveiling of the programming of the 15th Rencontres

The 15th Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie will take place this summer in 13 municipalities, towns and national parks on the peninsula with the theme “Transcending the commonplace.” Presented for the most part outdoors, the exhibits and installations...

Transcending the commonplace, the theme of our 15th edition

May 24, 2024

Transcending the commonplace, the theme of our 15th edition

The ordinary, the common, the insignificant – there’s nothing more authentic and more rooted in our day-to-day lives. Often with minimal staging, photographers frame a dull moment, a bland gesture, a nondescript landscape. With their way of seeing, with...

Creation residency | Photographic mission in the Eastern Townships

March 7, 2023

Creation residency | Photographic mission in the Eastern Townships

Sporobole and Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, thanks to the support of Loto-Québec, invite professional Québec artists to submit a project proposal by May 19, 2023. The artist selected will carry out a photography mission that documents one or...

Radical hope:
theme of the 13th edition of Rencontres

June 14, 2022

Radical hope:
theme of the 13th edition of Rencontres

The 13th edition of Rencontres will take place from July 15 to September 30, 2022, in 12 municipalities, towns and host parks in the Gaspé Peninsula on the theme “Radical hope.” According to Rencontres’ executive and artistic director, Claude...

Photo mission in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean: Josée Pedneault selected

June 8, 2022

Photo mission in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean: Josée Pedneault selected

Centre SAGAMIE (Alma) and Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, in collaboration with Loto-Québec, announce the selection of Josée Pedneault (Montreal, Québec) to carry out a photographic mission that will document the landscape of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean in 2022-2023. The results...

Unveiling of the 2021 program

June 23, 2021

Unveiling of the 2021 program

On the theme Conversations, the 12th Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie will be taking place this summer in 12 municipalities, towns and national parks on the peninsula. Held for the most part out of doors, the 16 exhibits and...

Photo mission in Charlevoix: Chun Hua Catherine Dong selected

May 31, 2021

Photo mission in Charlevoix: Chun Hua Catherine Dong selected

Musée de Charlevoix and Rencontres, in collaboration with Loto-Québec, announce the selection of Chun Hua Catherine Dong to carry out a photography mission that will document the contemporary Charlevoix landscape in 2021-2022. A Montreal visual artist of Chinese origin, Chun...

Tracadigash in augmented reality

May 18, 2021

Tracadigash in augmented reality

Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras (Montreal, Québec), who created the permanent mural Tracadigash for the 250th of Carleton-sur-Mer, in 2017, are currently preparing a complementary work in augmented reality, which will be unveiled for the 12th edition of Rencontres,...

Virtual launch of Maryse Goudreau’s book La conquête du béluga

June 1, 2020

Virtual launch of Maryse Goudreau’s book La conquête du béluga

Rencontres is pleased to invite the public to the virtual release of artist Maryse Goudreau’s book La conquête du béluga (Conquest of the Beluga; Éditions Escuminac, the Gaspé). The book will be launched during an exchange with the artist accessible live on Facebook on June 9, 2020, at 12:30 p.m. Since 2012, Maryse Goudreau has been creating an archive devoted to the beluga for which she assembles multiple...