Residency
HISTORY
INSTANTS is an artistic adventure through which Château Palmer and Leica Camera France are affirming their support for contemporary photographic creation. This annual residency, organised into several creative periods, offers the guest photographer total carte blanche to produce a personal artistic work, freely inspired by the ecosystem of Château Palmer, the vision and values of the estate, as well as its terroir and enlarged territory.
INSTANTS 2023
Paul Cupido
INSTANTS 2024
Henrike Stahl
INSTANTS 2025
Residency in progress. Announcement of the guest artist: Fall 2024
MORE INFORMATION
Every year, the INSTANTS residency extends an invitation to a professional auteur-photographer with a contemporary approach. This program is open to all narrative styles, without any limits placed on age, gender, nationality, experience.
NOMINATORS
2026
A panel of five nominators will accompany the fourth edition of the INSTANTS residency.
2023 - 2025
For the 2023 - 2025 editions of the program, the artists were selected by the INSTANTS artistic committee, comprising representatives from Château Palmer, Leica Camera France, and Filigranes Éditions, based on a preselection put forward by the Art Photo Projects agency.
As an avant-garde grand cru classé in its field, Château Palmer has built its reputation on the quality of its wines and its pioneering winemaking choices. It is also renowned for its creativity, developed through ambitious artistic collaborations in the worlds of jazz and photography. In recent years, Château Palmer has been lucky enough to exhibit the world’s leading photographers and develop close ties with figures such as Sebastião Salgado, Raymond Depardon, and Guy Le Querrec. Through the INSTANTS residency program, Château Palmer is now expanding the scope of its activity and is committing itself to taking the work of photographers whose sensibilities and values it shares as far as possible.
Leica Camera France is a subsidiary of the Leica Camera AG group, est. 1869, a German manufacturer of premium cameras and observation equipment with a global reach. Leica’s legendary reputation is rooted in a long tradition of excellence and the fame of countless photographers who have championed the brand since 1925. Leica has been chosen by pioneers in the fields of documentary and humanist photography, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Edouard Boubat, and Jane Evelyn Atwood. Today, Leica cameras are the allies of Nan Goldin, Dolorès Marat, Lise Sarfati, Claudine Doury, Stéphane Lavoué, Matt Stuart, Eamonn Doyle, Joel Meyerowitz, and many others.
Art Photo Projects advises and guides institutions and businesses in the artistic direction, production and communication of their cultural projects. Driven by their passion for and involvement in photography for the last 35 years, Fany Dupêchez, Artistic Director, and Pascal Michaut, Project Director, monitor and supervise the INSTANTS residency and its guest artists, overseeing production, exhibitions, book publishing and overall communication of the project.