DES COLLÉGIENS DU MORBIHAN

The United Kingdom has always been a fertile ground for artistic boldness and revolutionary cultural movements. From the Swinging Sixties to the Pop Art wave via the psychedelic effervescence of the 1970s, the British have brought a colourful, quirky energy to the world of art and design. Pop Nature draws on this joyful aesthetic to reinvent the natural landscape as a sparkling, almost surreal world where green is no longer simply green but fluorescent, where flowers dance under neon lights and where reality is tinged with a gentle eccentricity.

Guided by 8 professional photographers, these 16 State and private secondary schools in Morbihan participating in the initiative will work throughout the 2024-2025 school year on the theme Pop Nature. Through this exhibition, young artists offer a liberated, uninhibited vision of the living world, paying tribute to a re-enchanted natural wonderland that evokes vibrant energy and creative effervescence. In this visual journey melding poetry and psychedelia, nature becomes a feast for the senses.

This project, made possible through a partnership between the Morbihan Departmental Council and the La Gacilly Photo Festival association, brings together 16 State and private schools in this area of France, each year. The participants take part in an educational programme which lasts all year, centred on the discovery of photography. From subject analysis and synopsis development to shooting, editing, and writing captions, the students become the authors of an exhibition fully integrated into the programme of the 22^nd edition of La Gacilly Photo Festival. Their work will also be exhibited in Austria in 2026 during La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival, echoing the creations of young Austrians who have worked on the same topic.

The mentor photographers: Bettina Clasen, Éric Frotier De Bagneux, Hervé Le Reste, Fred Mouraud, Aude Sirvain, Émilie Teulon, Pauline Tezier, Cédric Wachthausen.

The secondary schools involved: Gilles Gahinet (Arradon), Saint-Gildas (Brec’h), Sainte-Marie (Elven), Saint-Tudy (Groix), Émile Maze (Guémené-Sur-Scorff), Îles du Ponant (Houat), Sainte-Anne (La Gacilly), Sainte-Anne (La Trinite-Porhoët), Saint Louis (Lorient), Tréfaven (Lorient), Madame de Sévigné (Mauron), Jean Rostand (Muzillac), Anne Frank (Plescop), Beaumanoir (Ploërmel), Romain Rolland (Pontivy), JeanLoup Chrétien (Questembert).