© Cris Bierrenbach			18 January - 25 March 2012 The exhibition presents sixty years of Brazilian experimental photography. It illustrates the way the country is able to absorb and transform art made beyond its borders, and reflects its very rich political history over the last half century. It shows how complex, labyrinthine and diverse Brazilian art is, making the country one of the major centres of artistic creativity in the field of photography. The exhibition is in two sections, one devoted to modernist photography, the other to contemporary photography. It features major names such as Geraldo de Barros, Claudia Andujar, Miguel Rio Branco, Mario Cravo Neto, Vik Muniz and Cris Bierrenbach. Curator: Eder Chiodetto, assisted by Marie Hippenmeyer Exhibition organized with support from the Itaú Cultural institute.
© Youssef Nabil / Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Bruxelles			18 January - 25 March 2012 Since the 1990s, Youssef Nabil has built up a unique body of work whose approach has never changed. Whether photographing friends (as he did in the early days), stars, or himself, he first stages and poses his subject very precisely and then hand-colours the black and white print. His models have an air of old-fashioned glamour reminiscent of the atmosphere of Egyptian film classics. For the MEP, Youssef Nabil has selected around 60 photographs including unadorned close-ups of Catherine Deneuve and Marina Abramovic, Egyptian models in cinematographic poses, a choral presentation of anonymous Yemeni fishermen, and shots of the artist facing the passage of time. Each image of himself or others emphasizes what is unique to the subject. Exhibition organized with support from Galerie Nathalie Obadia. In partnership with Figaroscope and Paris Première.
© Dominique Issermann			18 January - 25 March 20122 Over a period of three days, Dominique Issermann photographed Laetitia Casta at the thermal spa designed by architect Peter Zumthor in Vals, Switzerland. The result is a "pas de deux": a photographic choreography. The project follows on from Dominique Issermann's book on Anne Rohart published by Schirmer et Mosel in 1987. There is a sense of three people breathing: Laetitia Casta's breathless emotion as she discovers the place and abandons herself to the unknown; Dominique Issermann holding his breath to capture the moments when Laetitia Casta fleetingly appears in the building; and Peter Zumthor whose creative breath can be felt in the walls, stairs, pools and corridors. Thirty-three photographs that ultimately form a single image: the definitive, archetypal image of Laetitia Casta in all her sublime, unfettered nudity. In partnership with Paris Première.
© William Ropp			18 January - 25 March 2012 William Ropp presents a selection of about twenty photographs from his 20-year career. Here, there, and everywhere, from the revealing darkness of the studio to the vast open spaces of Africa and the villages of Mexico, he teases out the threads of an obsession for man devoid of all artifice, for the dark, deformed flesh of desire and for anxious or sunny childhood. Today, after years working in black and white, William Ropp has produced colour portraits where both the pose and the technique are inspired by classical painting. Exhibition produced jointly by the Charleroi Museum of Photography with support from the Ellen K Fine Art Photography Gallery, Oslo.
© Götz Göppert			18 January - 25 March 2012 German photographer Götz Göppert works for clients in Germany and France and also spends a lot of time on personal projects. A compulsive traveller, he explores the world at large and the world of those close to him with one aim in mind: to be caught unawares by beauty and the unusual. What he brings back from his trips is a record of what surrounds him: a cabinet of day-to-day curiosities whose rough-and-ready appearance is compelling and which he captures in panoramic format: his "window with a view" and the only format able to render more or less faithfully what the human eye perceives. Göppert's eye flinches from nothing, and gives everything a sense of poetry and suspended time.