Révélateurs portraits d'agences photos

A photo agency is a succession of professions and know-how that work to give the greatest visibility to photographs. Each agency is unique: by its relationship with the photographers it represents, by its editorial line, its mode of operation and its business model.

At the dawn of the 2000s, a technological revolution has upset the balance. Silver photography has been replaced by an entirely immaterial and digital process, from the taking of the picture to its processing and exploitation. To this first technological change was added the arrival of the Internet and the appearance of a now globalised competition.

Photographic agencies have had to find innovative solutions to promote their work and protect the rights of photographers. And the result is palpable: never before has photography been so well exposed, demonstrating the richness of production despite an uncertain economy.

The documentary series "Revealers" portrays a professional and artistic environment in full mutation while perpetuating a certain idea of auteur photography. Each episode of the series follows photographers in the field, from the Cannes Film Festival to the intimacy of the photo lab, and pushes the door of the photo agency to follow the path of the photographs.

Each episode unveils the creative relationship between the photographers and the agency's editorial team: commissions, residencies, editing, mounting exhibitions, preparation for the selection of photographic prizes, Prix Niepce, Prix Roger-Pic / Scam, distribution to publishers...

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