From October 10 to November 27, 2024, the Académie des beaux-arts will host an exhibition by Olivier Jobard, winner of the latest edition of the Prix de Photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière - Académie des beaux-arts. Olivier Jobard has photographed Afghanistan for three decades, and has studied issues related to exile for over twenty years, focusing, in his words, on "individualizing migration". Thanks to this award, he has been working for the past two years on the project Notre famille afghane, souvenirs d'une vie envolée, which has enabled him to cross the frontier of the intimate.
For 10 years, Olivier Jobard followed the exile of Ghorban, a young Afghan who fled his country for France in 2010. He was reunited with his four brothers and sisters Aziza, Sima, Mehrab and Sohrab, who were repatriated to France when the Taliban took power in summer 2021. Notre famille afghane, souvenirs d'une vie envolée retraces the uprooting of the Jafari sibling.
The exhibition will feature memories of their homeland and their new life in France, especially in contact with the photographer's sons, Elias and Léon, and will present the traces of their past in this new Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban. It will also shed light on the feelings of loss and uprootedness associated with this exile. "So many personal images that give us a sensitive view of the story of his own family, which also becomes a little of our own." Eric Karsenty
L’Académie des beaux-arts (French Academy of Fine Arts)
The Académie des beaux-arts is a place for training and artistic experimentation, an exhibition space, a place for the conservation of historical and contemporary collections and a publishing house. Home to the collections of the Royal Academies, the Beaux-Arts possess a trove of over 450,000 works whose presentation to the public they insure through exhibitions and loans. They occupy a vast architectural spread over two hectares, classified as historical monuments.