Podcast - "ÉCOUTEZ VOIR" with Cédric Gerbehaye

After traveling throughout the Middle East and Africa, photographer Cédric Gerbehaye stepped outside his comfort zone: he turned his lens on his daily life and the people around him, in Belgium and northern France. 

He admits it's a difficult task: 

“What can one say, and how can one say it, when, after all, one’s gaze is not sharp—or at least has grown accustomed to it?” 

Cédric Gerbehaye

This work led him to question what it means to be “at home,” and then to closely follow front-line services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of La Louvière. For several years, he also crossed the street—as a neighbor—to film, from an immersive perspective, the lives of inmates and staff at the Forest and Saint-Gilles prisons in Brussels. A work of long-term observation, intimacy, and connection. Brigitte Patient explores this “nearby elsewhere” with him as part of *Odyssée et horizons*, her exhibition at La Fileuse de Loos, hosted by the Lille Institut pour la photographie (through June 30, 2023).

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In this episode, Cédric Gerbehaye refers to: 

↘︎ Facts and Figures , a project of the Institut pour la photographie

↘︎ The Exhibition HORIZONS at La Fileuse, in Loos

↘︎ The Book Of these (The Upturned Beak)

↘︎ The Book Zoonosis (The Upturned Beak)

↘︎ The Movie The Punishment , a 90-minute film produced by Citizen Films, Industrie Films, and Savage Film, will be released in 2023

↘︎ ÉCOUTEZ VOIR is conceived and hosted by Brigitte Patient, directed by Lucile Aussel, and produced by Isabelle Duriez. A wave. audio production