Exhibition: ‘When the Navy was at its height: imagining the town of Rochefort (1666–1785)’

Born in 1952, François Sagnes taught visual arts, drawing and photography. Since 1977, he has been pursuing a personal photographic project based on two parallel themes.
The first series, entitled Seuils (Thresholds), focuses on raw mineral matter, gravity and light in the white marble quarries of Carrara, the grey stone quarries of Belgium and the limestone quarries of Burgundy.
The second series ventures into places where stone and sculpture form the landscape, in Egypt, on Easter Island, in Petra, in the Bomarzo garden in Italy, and elsewhere. The photographer strives to draw the viewer's gaze to the sculpture in order to restore these spaces' uniqueness.
François Sagnes' works are featured in many major French and European public collections.
As a guest of the Hèbre Museum in Rochefort, this travelling photographer presents a selection of more than a hundred of his images taken around the world.

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