Photography from A to Z

Produced on the occasion of the bicentenary of photography, the exhibition Photography from A to Z was conceived in close collaboration with the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection. It brings together works from this collection, placed in dialogue with works from the MEP collections, offering a cross-perspective between the richness of both photographic holdings. Far from any linear narrative, it unfolds a reading based on associations, encounters, and shifts, where the works dictate their own order, independent of any chronology or hierarchy.

Camille Vivier 

The MEP will present the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to French artist Camille Vivier, a prominent figure in contemporary photography. Through a selection of works where bodies, sculptural forms, and uncanny presences converse, a universe where both sensual and enigmatic unfolds, shaped by multiple references and unexpected visual echoes. Camille Vivier’s female figures fascinate as much as they unsettle, asserting the full power and complexity of their identities.

Johny Pitts

A writer, filmmaker, photographer, and journalist, Johny Pitts (born in 1987; lives and works in London) has developed a major body of work around Afropean identity, a concept describing the experience of being Black and European. From London to Lisbon, via Brussels and Berlin, he encounters Afrodescendant communities and brings back images of formal and documentary power.

The recipient of several distinctions, including the Decibel Penguin Prize and the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) Award, he has presented solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery in  London in 2023 and at Foam in Amsterdam in 2020. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Joël Quayson — How do you feel?

The MEP presents the first solo exhibition by Ghanaian-Dutch artist Joel Quayson, winner of the 2025 Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents. Working primarily with photography and video, he examines the multiple layers of his identity: culture, religion, gender and sexual orientation, as well as how they interweave and sometimes clash.

Johny Pitts — Black Bricolage

In the second part of the season, the MEP welcomes the British artist Johny Pitts. Bringing together twenty years of visual research devoted to the African diaspora in Europe and around the world, Johny Pitts presents his project Black Bricolage in the MEP Studio. Photographs, archives, personal documents, and testimonies are interwoven through plays of reflection, blur, and assemblage, offering a subtle and nuanced representation of contemporary Afro-descendant experience.