An artist whose talent is recognized in the United States exhibits in Hénon from May to June

Régina Monfort is back in her native Brittany. After having led his entire professional and artistic career in United STATESit’s in Hénon (Côtes-d’Armor) that she sets down her suitcases to exhibit her works.

Williamsburg neighborhood

In turn photographer, archivist, editor, teacher, she worked with the older onesincluding Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.

In parallel with her work, she carried out photo reports in immersion. His report Beyond Grand Street – Brooklyn, New York, is exhibited in New York and in several cities in America, and will be presented in Hénon from May 2 to June 30.

From 1994 to 2003, the photographer followed a group of young people from Puerto Rican and Dominican communities from the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Over time, Regina was able to gain their trust. These exhibited photographs bear witness to their fight, of their journey, their desire to live and to be recognized.

In black and white

Magnificent photos in black and whitefull of humanity and which transcend geographical and cultural borders.

The striking portraits, the unexpected scenes refer to the feelings specific to each being: this desire to flourish, to loveto be loved, and to overcome social conditioning to become fully oneself.

Many prizes

Régina Monfort was born and spent her childhood in Brittany. His attraction to “elsewhere” took her to Belgium, then to the United States, where she lived for 35 years.

A graduate of the Agnès Varda School of Photography in Brussels, she has since spent her entire career in the field of photography.

Over the last ten years, she has devoted herself to creating photography books for recognized authors and specialized publishing houses.

Currently, Regina has achieved more than 20 pounds each time taking up the work of a photographer on a specific theme. Many of them have won awards. “The Lives of Others”, by the American photographer James Carroll, has just been published by Éditions Kehrer.

His photographs have appeared in CultureFront, DoubleTake, Photo District News, The Village Voice and a number of other cultural publications. Now, a selection of his photographic works is part of the permanent collections of the New York Public Librarythe Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Yale Art Gallery and the Museum of the City of New York.

Guided tour by the artist on request at the town hall. Opening of the exhibition on May 3, at 7 p.m. Thursday to Sunday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Ephemeral Gallery, 36 Place Saint-Pierre, Hénon. From May 2 to June 30. Contact: 02 96 73 40 60.

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