The photobook
at Carleton-sur-Mer
EXHIBITION
Photobooks 2026: Image Stories
Since 2015, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie has been highlighting the photographic book, celebrated as a full-fledged artistic form. As a medium for creation, narration and dissemination, the photobook allows artists to develop a personal visual language and offer the public an intimate window into their world. For more than ten years the event has built a living collection of these works, presented each year to the Gabrielle-Bernard-Dubé Library to preserve and share this accessible cultural heritage.
Photobooks 2026: Image Stories
Selected Works – 2026 Edition
As part of the 2026 edition, Rencontres presents a new exhibition dedicated to the photographic books created by the invited artists of this 17th edition, as well as recent publications by carefully selected Québec artists. This presentation highlights the diversity of approaches, narratives, and formats adopted by photographers, and illustrates the vitality of the photobook as a space of freedom, experimentation and exchange.
Chris Donovan: The Cloud Factory
Maryse Goudreau: In the Eye of the Beluga
Géraldine Lay: North End
Mallory Lowe Mpoka: Architecture of the Self: What Lives Within Us
Matteo de Mayada: There’s No Calm After the Storm
Renaud Philippe: Retomada
Fatine-Violette Sabiri: Kiss Landing
The featured books are available for purchase on the artists’ websites. Some publications can also be purchased at the Liber Bookstore in New Richmond.
The official opening of the exhibition will take place at the launch of the Rencontres on Tour, on August 20, 2026. For more information, please refer to the Rencontres on Tour program.