Charles Nègre Museum of Photography
With "Les 3 Pôles" (The Three Poles), Vincent Munier offers us a striking immersion into the heart of these remote regions with extreme conditions, with nearly fifty photographs taken during challenging expeditions, undertaken alone and independently.
It transports us to the enchanting white landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, following the trail of mythical animals such as the Arctic wolf, polar bear, musk ox, and emperor penguin.
In Svalbard, Nunavut, and Adélie Land, Vincent Munier has a gift for photographing animals in all their splendor and nobility.
His latest trip took him to the high plateaus of Tibet, which Vincent Munier calls "the third pole."
Here, the photographer set out in search of the famous and very rare snow leopard. But the explorer also encountered many other animals along the way, including the Tibetan fox, the Pallas's cat, and herds of wild yaks and kiang donkeys...
Recounting his latest expedition to Tibet with Sylvain Tesson, to whom he lent his pen as a travel writer,La Panthère des neiges(2021), co-directed with Marie Amiguet, won the César Award for Best Documentary Film in 2022. This film is being screened in the museum for the duration of the exhibition.
