Festival photo La Gacilly
1 June
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1 October
2023
© Maryam Firuzi
Founded in 2004, the La Gacilly Photo Festival invites you on an immersive photographic experience as you stroll around 20 or so open-air galleries presenting the very best in contemporary photographic creation that questions our relationship with our world and our natural environment.
Photographs adorn the streets, gardens and alleys of La Gacilly, whose outstanding built and natural heritage provides a perfect backdrop to the thousand or so images on display. Public space becomes a stage, shared and open to all, free of charge.
© Brassage Photographique / Exposition Maia Flore 2019
Our main partners
DRAC - (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Bretagne)
Région Bretagne
About the Regional Council
Being useful in the daily life of Bretons and Bretons, investing for their future and that of the territory, this is the meaning of the action of the Brittany Region. Its fields of intervention are numerous; in particular, it accompanies numerous associations and events and thus supports the cultural, sporting and linguistic vitality that makes Brittany a welcoming and open region. It also ensures that the cultural offer is balanced throughout Brittany.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival ?
Brittany is at the forefront of the regions where festivals and artistic and cultural events are born. The Region supports and encourages this vitality. It supports ambitious projects that are anchored and innovate in the territories, from performing arts to the visual arts or photography.
By focusing on promoting contemporary creation, supporting emerging talents, investing in many professional networks and developing artistic and cultural education as a strong axis, the La Gacilly Photo Festival converges with cultural, artistic , environmental and societal issues that are at the heart of regional policy.
It is in the name of these shared values that the Region supports it.
Our common values for a sustainable future
In 2017, the Region chose to collectively build a future project for a sober and sustainable Brittany in 2040. From this approach was born the Breizh COP. Today, fully committed to this dynamic, the Region works with cultural actors around three sustainable development issues: ecological transition, equality between men and women, consideration of cultural rights.
Issues shared by the La Gacilly Photo Festival which, through its manifesto, attests to its desire to act in favor of ecological and societal transition.
Facebook: @regionbretagne.bzh
Instagram: @region.bretagne
Twitter: @regionbretagne
LinkedIn: @region-bretagne
Morbihan - Conseil Départemental du Morbihan (56)
Who are we?
An actor of proximity, the Department supports its inhabitants daily in almost every aspects of life: family, education, environment, culture, social matters… The Council is a guarantor of a harmonious development of the territory.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival?
More than a financial partner, the Department of Morbihan is the sponsor of this Festival. Every year, the Council gives a free pass to a photographer who goes and meets men and women who, like the Department, participate in building the territory.
Facebook: @departementdumorbihan
OBC - De L'Oust à Brocéliande Communauté
Who are we ?
“De l’Oust à Brocéliande communauté” (OBC) covers a geographical area gathering nearly 40,000 inhabitants and 26 communes around Malestroit, Guer and La Gacilly. In consultation with them, OBC proposes and develops proximity and valorization missions.
Why support the festival ?
One of our main objectives is to promote the territory, by accompanying and encouraging cultural activities for example. The Photo Festival totally reflects our educational ambition. It offers a high-quality exhibition, with famous photographers and selected works that convey an artistic and educational discourse that we adhere to and support. By its originality, the beauty of its setting and its free entrance, it also represents one of the main spearheads of our tourist offer. OBC is proud to be part of the public partners of the Photo Festival and wishes that this meeting rich of discoveries keep on questioning us many years.
Facebook: @oustbroceliande
LinkedIn: @de-l-oust-à-brocéliande-communauté
Commune de La Gacilly
Who are we ?
Since January 1, 2017, the three towns of Glénac, La Chapelle Gaceline and La Gacilly have become one: the new town of La Gacilly.
Why support the festival?
It seems indispensable to us to help one of the biggest Outdoor Photo Festival in Europe. Created 17 years ago, the La Gacilly Photo Festival brought together millions of visitors around the world's leading photographers. More than 1000 large format photographs displayed in the streets, gardens, alleys of the village of La Gacilly. It gives a cultural access of exception free family, between friends in our rural setting.
Facebook: @Unispourbienvivreensemblealagacilly
Yves Rocher
Who are we?
In 1959, Mr. Yves Rocher created the Botanical Beauty®, an innovative beauty concept that draws its ingredients from nature and combines them with the best of science, to meet women’s every beauty desire.
More than a source of inspiration, Nature is at the heart of our business. Particularly concerned about its preservation, we commit ourselves daily to limit our impact on the environment and to anticipate the environmental challenges of tomorrow.
Why support the Photo Festival?
Yves Rocher is the main sponsor of La Gacilly Photo Festival, which supports committed photographers. Through their eyes, it's a whole world to discover, protect and love. In tune with its times, the Photo Festival offers each visitor an immersive and ambulatory experience in the heart of Europe's largest open-air gallery. The Photo Festival makes us aware of the fragile beauty of our planet. A unique way to challenge the public about its future.
Rocher Participations
About the Regional Council
ROCHER PARTICIPATIONS is the investment holding company of the ROCHER family.
It is held exclusively by the members of the ROCHER family, whose shareholders are the direct descendants of Mr Yves Rocher.
It is a French holding company, solidly established in its home territory, La Gacilly, in accordance with the wishes of its founder, Mr Yves Rocher, and with its purpose.
We are a Breton family holding company, convinced that well-rooted trees are more resistant to the vagaries of time.
Since 1959, our family adventure has been part of the world's changing times.
As early as 1971, Mr. Yves Rocher was already giving pride of place to Art by developing the establishment of numerous craftsmen in order to develop the economic growth of the commune of La Gacilly. More than fifty years later, these craftsmen are still present.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival ?
By becoming a partner of the Photo Festival, ROCHER PARTICIPATIONS has perpetuated this commitment, using the photographic medium as a tool to bear witness to social and environmental issues addressed to the general public.
Our common values for a sustainable future
ROCHER PARTICIPATIONS also cultivates authentic encounters with its local partners, to support the Breton ecosystem and offer events accessible to everyone.
Gares et connexions
Who are we?
The SNCF Gares & Connexions branch stemed from a belief : train stations are vibrant places at at the crossroads of various journeys. Like the lungs of cities, they transform territories and make everyday life easier for millions of travellers, visitors and residents.
Ever since its creation, SNCF Gares & Connexions has chosen to place regions’ cultural life at the heart of train stations. Art is an essential part of life, of personal fulfilment, and community spirit. Efficient and reactive, they offer an insight into art, proposing rich artistic and cultural events, carried out with the help of national or local institutions, and paying special attention to local cultural news. Thus, train stations act as gateways to new territories, they reinvent the notions of exchange, travel, and transport in the eyes of all.
As an important partner of significant institutions and events dedicated to photography, like le Jeu de Paume, LE BAL, Circulation(s), ImageSingulières or Rencontres d’Arles, we’re also involved in contemporary art and music. Today, there are in total over 100 train stations throughout the country which brighten day-to-day travelling for travellers and residents all year round.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival?
Loyal to the La Gacilly Photo Festival, we have been supporting the event for 5 years in a row by exhibiting the iconic photographs of the festival’s programme in the train stations of Rennes, Nantes, Vannes, Saint-Malo, Redon and Paris Montparnasse.
Stanhome
Who are we ?
Pioneer of a sales system based on the social network, Stanhome is committed to offering everyone a professional opportunity; representing three brands intended for the well-being of the whole family to customers:
- Stanhome: expert and high-performance cleaning products for home care.
- Stanhome Family Expert: a unique selection of hygiene and care products for the whole family.
- Kiotis: the virtues of precious Essential Oils in sensory and effective beauty treatments.
Why supporting the Festival?
With the La Gacilly Photo Festival, Stanhome wishes to engage in the development of events that contribute to making our expertise better known, our values of conviviality, of sharing, and our commitments for greater respect for the environment and health. By supporting this National Festival, we are offering the opportunity of access to culture for all.
Which commitments implemented in our structure affirm our common values?
Since In 2021, the 3 brands that we market have committed to evolving by offering products with packaging that reduce our waste and plastic pollution, formulas with a high rate of natural ingredients and responsible production in France and in Europe. In addition, our employees are made aware of a more responsible daily life that respects the planet and its biodiversity.
Vrai - Triballat Noyal
Who are we?
We are a family and independant food processing company with strong values of respect, unity and dedication. In our quest starting which started in the 70’s, to produce healthier food which respects both people and the environment, the company gradually expanded to new markets (organic food, plant-based products…) and we continue to innovate with a mission: healthy food from the field all the way to the plate.
The Vrai brand is a good example of this, offering organic dairy products from three different kinds of milk (cow, goat and sheep) and soya products.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival?
We wanted to partner with the La Gacilly Photo Festival, to highlight our territory and promote access to culture and art to our employees and our customers, around the same values: respect for men, women, and nature.
Société générale
Who are we?
Société Générale, one of Europe’s leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 150 years, supports 30 million clients every day with 133,000 staff in 61 countries. Société Générale Group, with four shared values (Team Spirit, Innovation, Commitment and Responsibility), aims to be a trusted partner in the projects of those building tomorrow’s world today.
Why support the La Gacilly Photo Festival?
Since its launch, Société Générale has supported the Photo Festival. Société Générale shares with the Festival Team common values. Société Générale is fully aware that economic development is no longer possible without environmental and social progress. Hence Corporate Social Responsibility is at the heart of the Group’s strategy in order to promote a sustainable development.
