A young woman in a blue dress, surrounded by imposing cacti, stares at us from the facade of a stone house. Further on, it is the penetrating gaze of the famous green-eyed Afghan woman immortalized by Steve McCurry who stares at us from a green wall, while four Bolivian women pose above a charming little bridge. Every year since 2004, the streets, gardens and alleyways of La Gacilly have been adorned with nearly 1,000 large-format photographs taken by renowned artists.
An immersive experience
We owe this funny idea to Jacques Rocher, son of a certain Yves Rocher, whose stronghold is precisely this small town in the Morbihan countryside. At the beginning of the 2000s, the heir to this cosmetics empire, also mayor of La Gacilly and passionate about photography, offered the museum of the plant world a temporary exhibition… but presented outdoors. “While the photo was…
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