Aujourd'hui

Aujourd’hui presents the latest series by Franco-Swiss photographer Thaddé Comar, exploring the question of information and its various staging through the “media machine”. To bear witness to this highly topical subject, Thaddé Comar visited the French National Assembly and the Palais de Justice in Paris, to be at the heart of the reactor. These images of politicians immersed in a forest of microphones, cameras and poles, highlight the media hubbub and our desensitization to the flood of information.

The series is put into perspective in an essay by Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the Photo Élysée museum in Lausanne, who places Thaddé Comar’s work within the history of photography. This is accompanied by an interview with curator Song Tae Chong, contextualizing the creation of the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L. Finally, writer Fabienne Radi has devised a short story echoing the photographer’s theme of public discourse.