The ax fell on Thursday October 24, 2024. The association organizing the Photographic Walks was placed in liquidation by the Blois court. So there will be no 21e edition in 2025 for the photography festival, which spent 18 years in Vendôme, then two in Blois.
“We are in a situation of general economic crisis for cultural festivals in general and photographic festivals in particular,” firstly recalls Frédéric Pasco-Werlé, president of the association.
“We limit the damage by stopping now”
The financial situation of the association was complicated, due in particular to reductions in funding which were not sufficiently compensated by the arrival of other financiers or even paying attendance (around 1,000 entries as in 2023) not as high. than hoped. In summary, explains Cédric Marmuse, director of the association since March, “we limit the damage by stopping now”.
“If we relaunched grant requests, we would not have had any money coming in before the month of marsadds Frédéric Pasco-Werlé. We had no liquidity and apart from digging a hole in the bank… It was a risk we didn't want to take. »
