Mers et Mystères – Laurent Ballesta
Exhibition
From 05 April to 28 September 2025
From 05/04 to 28/09/2025
Opening hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 10 am and 6 pm.
On the occasion of UNOC 2025, the Musée de la Photographie is offering an exhibition dedicated to the photographer Laurent Bollesta in order to share his vision of a dangerously threatened universe. Exhibition presented as part of the Biennale des Arts.
An internationally awarded photographer, Laurent Ballesta is a biologist, naturalist, researcher and explorer. For decades, through his exhibitions, books and conferences, Laurent Ballesta has highlighted the environmental issues we are facing today and which will be defended at the United Nations conference in Nice.
In recent years, Laurent Ballesta has focused on illustrating not the beauty of nature or the horrors we inflict on it, but the mysteries hidden behind aesthetic appearances.
Beyond astonishment or delight, these visions must question us on the complex mechanisms of biodiversity. It is about opening a small window, for a brief moment, on what is beyond us and that we do not understand. Approaching the unknown can arouse more respect than simply admiring beautiful images. Today, we need knowledge more than beauty. The image can bring this knowledge, and this is what Laurent Ballesta tries to do: to make us feel the extent of our ignorance through his photographs and the mysteries they reveal.
