3 février - 4 avril 2010 Including over 130 photographs including some rarely seen original prints, this exhibition retraces Elliott Erwitt's 60-year career via a selection of his own favourites. A photographer since 1948 and a member of Magnum Photos since 1953, he is a sharp, sometimes mischievous observer of everyday life; among his favourite subjects are children, dogs, beaches, politics and celebrities. A witness to the major events of the 20th century, this master of the instant is also a tireless wit, a subtle and poetic humourist whose work combines satire and melancholy. Elliott Erwitt has also made documentary films, some of which can be seen at the MEP video library. Exhibition organized in collaboration with Magnum Photos and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
			3 février - 4 avril 2010 Writer and photographer Philippe Bordas began his African experience in 1988, sharing the everyday lives of Kenyan boxers in Mathare Valley, the largest slum in Africa. In 1993, he met the artist and writer Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, whose poetic journey he celebrates in L'invention de l'écriture (The Invention of Writing) (Fayard, 2010). Between 1994 and 1999, he entered the closed world of Senegalese wrestling. The lives of boxers and wrestlers provided the theme for his book L'Afrique à poings nus (Africa with Bare Fists) (Seuil, 2004. Awarded the Prix Nadar), the first part of an ongoing trilogy which formed the subject of an exhibition in 2004 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. In early 2001, in Bamako, Philippe Bordas discovered a resuscitated army of hunters from all over West Africa who had not come together for almost seven centuries. He followed their movements over a period of seven years. The exhibition brings together these three projects carried out in Africa between 1988 and 2008.
			3 février - 7 mars 2010 This exhibition, organized in collaboration with Agarttha Arte, is part of the project entitled "Piedmont: a definition", an ongoing collection of commissioned work by major photographers. Following on from Alain Fleischer in 2007, William Klein in 2008 and Gabriele Basilico in 2009, Sarah Moon has been given carte blanche to produce an artistic work focusing on the Royal Theatre in Turin. Sarah Moon has created a compelling evocation of this wonderful theatre, where timeless features of the stage and backstage areas recall the world of Lewis Caroll, tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and Shakespeare's tragedies. Exhibition and catalogue produced with support from the Piedmont Regional Council, the Fondation CRT, Compagnia di San Paolo, and Bentley S.o.A S.p.A.
			3 février - 4 avril 2010 In the series of photographs entitled "Effacements", faces come to meet us and overflow the strict limits of their volume. They express the feeling of radiating presence that comes from someone who is here. It is a well known fact that good portraitists are often not very good at remembering faces. This is because they have become used to scrutinizing facial structures for their own sake, whereas we recognize people thanks to the fleeting expressions that flash across their faces. Wachill has turned this situation on its head. He is interested in the aura of faces, in what emanates from them and continues to float in the air like the Cheshire Cat's smile. But this is not about psychology; these are forms which, however impalpable, still occupy space. Exhibition organized by Jean-Claude Lemagny
			3 février - 4 avril 2010 What do French people look like? Like this garage mechanic in his overalls? Like this boxer in his bedroom? Over a period of eight years, Luc Choquer has produced hundreds of portraits. He knocked on doors, went inside homes, allowed his models to decide how they wanted to pose. He also recorded what people said and labelled his images, making them seem like a sociological census reminiscent of the portraits made by August Sander in 1930s Germany. But we sense that Luc Choquier's work involves something more than just producing documentary images; his interest in stepping across a threshold into a bedroom or living room is the impulse of a novelist. There's something reminiscent of Balzac or Perec in the way he hunts for clues; and there are echoes of Jean-Philippe Toussaint or Thomas Lélu in his ability to let ordinary people reinvent themselves as comic strip basketball players or classical beauties reclining languidly on couches.
			17 mars - 4 avril 2010 On the Road is a selection of prints on the theme of the road, taken from the collections of the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. The exhibition presents the dreamlike visions of some major 20th century photographers who recorded intense moments in transit. Always in search of their next image, they naturally found themselves on the road, which became an antichamber for imagined subjects, a place for experimentation, and an ideal setting for snapshots. These photographers suggest the road more than they actually show it, a nuance which means that they eliminate any documentary aspect, instead allowing us to give free rein to our imagination and memory. On the Road showcases what might be termed escapist photography: a brief parenthesis, time to breathe for a fleeting instant, away from the chaotic turmoil of the world. The exhibition is based on an original idea by BMW.