Table ronde : Voir et les mots – dialogue entre photographie et écriture

Echoing the exhibition "La photographie en toutes lettres", the MEP invites you to a round table exploring the fertile links between photography and texts, showing how images and words respond to, extend, and mutually nourish each other.

Inspired by John Berger's Ways of Seeing (1972), the exhibition La photographie en toutes lettres takes from this foundational work the idea that "seeing precedes words": we first perceive reality before naming and conceptualising it.

This meeting will bring together artists and specialists whose practices lie at the intersection of photography, writing, and publishing.

Photographer and editor Francesca Todde, whose book IUZZA explores the imaginary world of Goliarda Sapienza, an Italian writer whose work has seen an international rediscovery in recent years, will engage in dialogue with Nicholas Muellner, an artist, writer, and teacher who develops a practice at the crossroads of photography and writing, exploring the limits of photography as a documentary practice and its dialogue with literary, political, and personal narratives.

The discussion will be moderated by Federica Chiocchetti, a specialist in the history of photography and literature. Together, the speakers will revisit the multiple forms that the dialogue between photography and literature can take.

Based on their respective practices, they will question the place of text in photography, the book as a space for creation, and the narratives that images provoke or extend.