The images exhibited at the La Gacilly photo festival are printed in large format and presented outdoors.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

Over the years, it has become one of the unmissable summer events in Brittany.

Free and in the open air, the Gacilly photographic festival welcomes nearly 300,000 visitors each year.

After Latin America last year, he will this time venture into less tropical countries with a focus on the Scandinavian countries.

The organizers thus wish to “highlight the creative and often unrecognized power of artists” from Northern Europe, according to Cyril Drouhet, curator of exhibitions.

The work of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado was exhibited last year at La Gacilly.

- J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes

These photographers each have their own approach to highlighting magnified nature and frequently suspended humans.

The Finnish photographer Tiina Itkonen thus evokes the threatened life of an Inuit community in Greenland while her compatriot Sanna Kannisto shoots an astonishing series of portraits of birds captured in the studio.

Yet another approach with the Norwegian Jonas Bendikson, of the Magnum agency, who reveals on the one hand, in his native country, the rural region of Vesteralen, and, on the other, the dramatic consequences of global warming and the rising waters in a vast report from the plateaus of Tibet to the plains of Asia.

Festival dates not yet known

Beyond the Scandinavian heart of this edition, several other exhibitions are scheduled.

We will thus discover the American Nick Brandt who proposes a "visionary work" on the devastating effects of galloping urbanization, or the French Mathias Depardon who followed the Tigris River from Turkey to the marshes of Basra (Iraq), partially drained by dams upstream.

The exact date of hanging of the exhibitions has not yet been specified, pending changes in the health context.

But the 2020 edition took place without major difficulty, the festival being outdoors.

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