VENEZUELA : The Wells Run Dry - Fabiola Ferrero's exhibition

From 28 October to 22 November, discover the exhibition of photojournalist Fabiola Ferrero Venezuela : The Wells Run Dry at Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris.

The exhibition Venezuela, The Wells Run Dry by Fabiola Ferrero, laureate of the 12th Carmignac Photojournalism Award, explores the disappearance of the Venezuelan middle class. Fabiola Ferrero’s reportage will be the subject of a double exhibition, part of PhotoSaintGermain festival.

Réfectoire des Cordeliers (Paris, 6e)

The Venezuelan photographer set out to document years of wealth that now exist only in memory. She went to places that were once symbols of prosperity, to look for the vestiges of a bygone economic success. Her reportage took her across the country, photographing the oil and salt industries on the verge of disappearing and the communities that depend on them, the universities looted and abandoned, and the last traces left by the Venezuelans who decided to leave the country for a better future.

Fabiola Ferrero creates a visual vignette that documents the economic tipping point of her country, and the consequences for its people.

Echoing this exhibition, in a desire to give a voice to those who make and think about photography and photojournalism today, the Fondation Carmignac and PhotoSaintGermain are also offering an associated program of talks and screenings, bringing together photographers, curators, photo editors, collectives, and researchers, turning the space into an effervescent hub of exchange.

This exhibition at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers, designed by the scenographer Alice de Bortoli and her collective, Ortiche, will combine photographs, archives, texts and 360° videos

Pratical Information

Réfectoire des Cordeliers
15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006
Métro : Odéon (ligne 4 - ligne 10)

Open everyday:
11am to 7pm (Closed on 1st November)
Free entrance

SERIES OF PANELS

PhotoSaintGermain and Fondation Carmignac invite you to the Réfectoire des Cordeliers for a series of panels that will explore photography as a journalistic and artistic practice
The program features :

Saturday, November 5, 2022
The diversity of photojournalistic practices and their collaborative forms
4pm - 5pm
Program presented in French.
Free admission without reservation.

Saturday, November 12, 2022
CatchLight and Fondation Carmignac explore innovation in visual journalism with two conversations and a reception.
1/ The future of Local Visual Journalism: A View from Europe and the United States
2/ Documentary practices bringing new visions forward: The Change We Want to See
5pm – 8 :30pm
Reservation required here
Program presented in English.

Saturday, November 19, 2022
1/ 4pm - Publishing as a creative practice
2/ 5:30pm - Which female gaze on contemporary youth?
Program presented in French.
Free admission without reservation.

Port de Solférino (Paris, 7e)

A second exhibition is held on the Port de Solférino, opposite the Musée d’Orsay, in partnership with the City of Paris.